That would be awesome!
I have difficulty using one 4k screen fully. Progress report season opened today, so I will have everything that I need to write those spread across my screen, but with space to spare.
I think that I will bring it out here.
The thing is, my laptop is faster, or at least the graphics are significantly better.
Look! A rabbit hole!
My GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design has an average G3D Mark score of 7,939, whatever that means.
PassMark Software's Videocard Benchmark says that the GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the best value with 9,835 for $160. The non-super 1650 is 4th, but 7,847 for $140, so for $140 I should be able to upgrade my desktop to compare with my laptop.
Food for thought.
That did not even count as a rabbit hole!
My laptop uses have varied greatly, just like my driving habits, but I am sure those will largely return to normal eventually. I used to visit my sister once every month or two and there were always times when my family was busy and I had an hour to play World of Warcraft.
The same was true when I traveled to go on a date.
The Digital Trends article that I shared before said that "an excellent business laptop isn’t so different from any other laptop. That’s why the updated Inspiron 15 7000 is such a perfect fit — it’s simply a great 15.6-inch laptop with ideal specs for all kinds of business purposes." It has a 9th-generation i5, and on-board graphics. "It won’t be good for gaming, but that’s not why you buy this laptop."
The gaming laptop is less than $100 more and comes with a 10th-gen i7, competitive graphics, and heat issues. I already have a laptop cooler, but that is like telling a Phoenician to turn on a fan when their air conditioning goes out.
Every review that I read said that the G5 was extremely fast for its price, but sacrificed in many other areas. With an older and slower processor and only on-board video, there was a great deal of room to make a better all-around laptop for less.
Will it last less?
Remember those heat problems?
First of all, there isn't a video card to die, nor one to cause other components to overheat.
I don't know, if I am spending good money on a slower laptop that I cannot use for games I do not see the point in spending $800 or more. Yes, hopefully it should last for a long time, but if I am going to buy something exclusively for work, I would rather buy something like the
Acer that I bought for Mom back in February. It is lighter, thinner, has far trimmer bezels, and the screen opens much further. There are times that I wish that my laptop opened more and hers does over 180°!
It turns out that her laptop was released last September. Is there a newer model?
I guess.
I tried to find something and just found the older one until I went to Acer's site. Almost the last laptop was this:
Acer Aspire 5: $400. I cannot find it for sale anywhere else, nor are there any reviews of it. It appears to have an updated processor and graphics and allows for faster RAM, but does it use it? We paid $313.68 for hers, although it is now $350. I cannot find it cheaper anywhere.
It is a year old, replaced, and the price went up 12%?
Aside from a black square on the touchpad, it looks the same.
This indicates the processor is about 30% faster. I cannot find much information about the on-board graphics,
this just says that the newer one has a higher frequency, but one less execution units and slightly fewer shaders (the old one had 20% more of each).
Is the new one 14.28% better?
All right:
- Order $400 laptop (and upgrade the RAM).
- Upgrade the graphics in my desktop.
- Try to find a deal for Microsoft Office.
Plenty of people try to force free office suites on others, but that is like people saying "You have problems with Windows? Just use Linux!"
I would happily pay a small fee to use a ten-year-old version of Office. Who brags about having the latest word processor? I am not subscribing and I do not see any reason to spend a surprising amount of money for one computer when I have two that I use daily.
Office on-line isn't a solution, its a nuisance!
I am pretty sure that Google Documents is actually worse.
I have been using WPS Office for a while now and I like it more than the other free options that I have tried, but you know how Word is notorious for messing up everything when you try to adjust one image?
WPS Office is much worse.