I currently have 2 Laptops that I use. I have an 8+ year old Acer Travelmate core 2 duo Laptop I use for work. Rarely used. Battery changed about 4 years ago but now battery does not last that long. I use it to troubleshoot network issues. It still works well. Has a 500GB WD Black drive. Boots decently speed for the age of it. It still works well so I am not complaining. My second laptop I have basically use at home and currently using now. I love this laptop!! The biggest issue about it is that it has a MAJOR issue boot from cold. Its a Lenovo E540. Its an issue that majority ALL users that own it have had. Basically Lenovo says there is no issue. With the amount of users that have the same issue with the same product and they will not do anything unless it was still under warranty and people that did get a replacement still have the same issue. If it was not the cold boot issue (basically it will not boot and the only way to get it to boot is either disconnect the CMOS battery or remove mem (which is very easily done)). Some times it works for the first time. Other times it does not. What I do to prevent this to happen is keep the laptop in sleep mode. If I close the lid it goes to sleep. I have change all settings such that it would take 4 days to not be in sleep mode. I keep it plugged in all the time.
So why do I love this Laptop. First it has a i7-4720HQ CPU. Its a true quad core with HT for a laptop. Second it has 8GB Ram and 128GB SSD HD. The keyboard is the best keyboard on a laptop I have ever dealt with. It has a DVD, full Ethernet adapter, VGA, HDMI full USB ports and a removable battery!! It may be a bit more than most laptops but its expandable and a removable battery!! It currently the 2nd fastest CPU I have at home compared to my sons desktop i7.
It has Windows 10 with no bloatware. It takes fewer than 4 seconds to boot from hibernation. Under 1 second from sleep. It boots extremely fast!! Every PC/ Laptop should do the same!!
So the 2 laptops I have can easily change the battery. I have notest over the last few years is that its extremely hard to find a laptop that you can easily change the battery ( let alone mem or hd).
One example is I have supplied high end HP Laptops . I liked them because for expand ability was one large back plate with no screws open the option to replace memory, hd and battery. They changed the model and now it takes lots of screws to undue the back plate. (It would not be much to be the way the older way would be!!) . That frustrates me!!
It seems any laptop,tablet and sometimes all in one PCs now a day is a throw away. The companies can make more money if the people change their product ever 4 years rather than upgrade or replace batteries etc!!
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