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Hey how's it going?
Dave 2D here
So, Right now in early to mid 2018
We actually see a lot of laptop companies
Coming up with their 8th generation laptops
So they are Coffee Lake H Processors
Which are really powerful
And for like the right user
For CPU intensive applications, they are awesome
So if you're a streamer
Or if you do video editing
Or if you do like 3D stuff
machine learning
6 cores is excellent
But for alot of people specially gamers
thoes extra cores aren't all that useful
So you can actually find some very
comparable performance from
previous generation laptops and just save a lot of money
So This is kind of like a guide or some kind of like I don't know
Just a video to kinda guide you in the right direction
So, we gonna look at 2 things
Refurb options and Used options
So, the first thing is refurb
Refurb devices like refurbished devices
They're sometimes a stigma when it comes to
like buying refurbished stuff
like it's like...oh it used or whatever...
but here is the thing
a lot of refurbished laptops are coming from
corporate devices, you like have that 45, 50 year old
executive at a company that like gets new devices
every year. part of the company perk right? (I wish :((
and one year later they get swapped out for a newer device
and so that older device goes back to the laptop manufacturer
they recondition it
sometimes they swap out the battery
and then they resell it at a severely discounted price point sometimes
which is awesome
And so those devices that comes from corporate ownership are just
they so lightly used that they basically brand new
and if you can get your hand on some of those
Sometimes, it's like really good pricing
So, refurbished options are excellent
If..if you buy it from right brand
So, apple they have excellent refurbished options
like some of the stuff that comes from apple
is basically brand new when you buy refurbished
it gets all the warranty and everything
but if we talk about gaming laptops
the one brand comes to mind
the one brand that really sticks out as like gaming
a excellent option for me is dell
They have what I consider
They have very big corporate market
So, they have a ton of consumers out there
and that whole corporate ownership
that I just described, happens alot with dell devices
XPS line, like they have tons of them
at are just 25 30% off. very significant
and Same thing goes with their alienware lineup
If you want like dedicated gaming
same thing goes there
So there are some other brands that have
the refurbished thing as well
Um.. Acer Asus, they all do it
but the difference here is that the discount is not substantial
I think alot of that comes from volume
I think dell just have very big corporate enterprise market
So this is how alot of this stuff do in this refurb cycle
Um... they other option is buying used
and when it comes to buying used
your price going to vary very wildly
You can get some sweet deals here and there
but i'm just kinda gonna go through I don't know
a few points that peoples should keep in mind
when it comes to buying used
Um..ok..First...
Try to find a GTX 1050 or 1060 graphics card
So, the 10'th series graphics cards are
such a significant jump in performance from 9 series
that you should try to get one if you can
They just better at performance for lower voltage
which means less heat
and when you buying used, less heat is good!
ok, so second thing want to keep in mind is
thermal performance
You dont want to buy a used
laptops that didn't have good thermal performance
because you never know how these things were treated
right? If the previous user was constantly
running their laptops at full tealt
and had bad thermal performance...then yeah...
You wana avoid device like that
Now the last thing you want to keep in mind is
That if you buying a device locally
So, you can actually go check this thing out
before you actually pay the guy money
You wana stress test it
Don't just like go there and take a look at it and play some games
You wana bring a USB key loaded up
with AIDA 64 or 3D mark
or any kind of benchmark swift that you are comfortable with
Bring it there. test it out.
because if there is a problem with the laptop
It will probably appear in stress test but
you might miss it when playing games or something like that
so stress test it if you can
I know It feel dorky to go there and be like
...hey man can I use this USB key and stress test?...
like just do it, like you going to pay this guy alot of money
So do your do diligence
Make sure to check it out as thoroughly as you can
Ok that's basically it
I mean there is alot of cool devices coming out right now
6 cores devices really powerful but for gamers
This is just really good way to save some money
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