Comment on I've had the same laptop for seven years. Don't know much about them besides buy a Toshiba. Is this Hp Essential Laptop a good deal?

• occultist8128@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i’d choose a used business laptop, cheap and still good to go.

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• Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  might want to consider a reinstall of the OS first, or some linux if you are up to it.

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• BangersAndMash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A new laptop, even the best in the world, won’t make your downloads any faster.

  I also back what everyone else is saying. Unless of course you can update your current laptop. What have you got? An extra stick of ram and an SSD can make an old laptop feel brand new, especially with an OS reinstall

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A new laptop, even the best in the world, won't make your downloads any faster.

    I struggle to make sense of this. Most obviously, network cards have gotten better with time. It obviously depends on what you're coming from and what you're changing to, but of course a laptop upgrade could make your downloads faster?

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    • BangersAndMash@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The bandwidth of a network card would generally outclass your internet connection by an offer of magnitude.

      Gigabits per second network cards have been standard for at least a decade.

      And then there’s your wifi too, if applicable, but even that is much faster than your general internet connection.

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      • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I feel like I can download files to my newest laptop faster than I can move them around locally on my older ones. But maybe I'm just getting old, and my reference points are dates. Or maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about, that's also likely.

        In either case, thanks for the explanation!

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