This laptop was $350, but it seemed like everyone compared every deal that season with one sale that must have been an accident, it was taken down almost immediately, but I read over and over that the same laptop had been available for just $250.
I believe that I paid $80 more for a FHD screen and another $10 for a backlit keyboard, which doesn't work great when everything is silver.
I paid $90 for the extended warranty, which is supposed to be refunded in full if I don't use it.
Wish me luck!
I always say that I paid $800 for a $350 laptop because I bought RAM and an SSD that I swapped in because it was cheaper than having it ship like that.
It didn't have shipping included, either.
People kept talking about going through different sites or buying with particular credit cards to get cash back.
I believe that one of those things was supposed to work, but didn't seem to work for me.
I found Chinese batteries for $25-30, but only IFixIt sold the OEM battery for $90.
That may have been more than I wanted to pay...
A friend told me that he always put screws in a jar so his kids didn't kick them.
Remember when my then-girlfriend kicked my laptop screws?!
I thought that was bad, but having loose screws is just annoying, while you can do actual damage driving a screw that is too long!
I always try to lay out screws in the order they came out, but I also bought ice cube trays for at least putting fasteners in the order I removed them, but if you pull screws of different lengths for the same step, that doesn't help you.
They also have repair mats with grids on them to help you keep track.
I miss WoW and I spent 6 minutes showing the lady with whom I went hiking 3 times how to play the one lower-level character that I can still access.
I think that I mostly miss it because I want a break from grad school!
I posted in my other thread that I bought my Dell XPS 8900 on 5/21/2016.
I have just upgraded the RAM and SSD, but I couldn't play WoW at some point after buying this laptop even though I think it came with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650.
When I showed Miss Hiker WoW, I had it full-screen on my 43" television, and I was in a capital city, where the game tends to slow down, but there is another capital city with each expansion.
I don't even know how many there are nowadays, and for several expansions, there have been fewer and fewer players, although the last time that I saw, it was still the most popular MMORPG.
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if you count Classic, it is a distant #2, with Baldur's Gate III being #1)
25-man raids were also extremely demanding, but I don't have any idea how to do that at level 20.
I don't recall ever having a smaller laptop than 15.6".
People rant and rave about numeric keypads, but I use them.