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The Count To Infinity - v12

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To be fair: I've kinda used and abused mine quite a lot.

I originally got it for 800€ in 2012. So it was a pretty alright model. It was my first experience of getting an advanced Linux system installed (one of those where you have to do everything manually). That was quite a pain. ^^"
It's a gaming laptop but especially in the later years I've only really used it for browsing and Youtube and stuff like that. That doesn't change the fact that I've played games like Skyrim on it before. There was even a time when the fan started getting louder so I tried opening and cleaning it. Putting it back I ended up with a couple screws left unscrewed and a touchpad that no longer worked and my broken keys probably date back to that event, as well. ^^"

And that was like 2 or 3 years into its life cycle. Given that it still survived for that long I'm just really impressed. For all I know I might never get one like this ever again. Like, its estimated life span was 4 years. At least that's what the guy who sold it told me.
 
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Yeah I won't spend more than 1000 euros on a laptop tbh. I am a long time laptop user as well. The only downside to this is that with time your computer is quite less powerful if compared to the rest.
I ended up two years ago working with a laptop with 4GB of RAM. That's not too great.
So, when I got my new laptop two years ago, I just went for good specs so that it keeps performing even after many years.
Actually, Linux helps. My old laptop worked really good with Arch. The only thing that kept not working was the webcam. When I set it up it worked alright, but then it would stop working at times and I had to set up it again. If I had the want and knowledge of today, I'd probably go and fix it lol
 
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Megan's Laptop only has 2 years on mine =O

Bought mine in January 2014, so in another 9 months it'll be a decade old.
Iirc it was around € 1.050 at the time. It had a pretty strong i7 line processor, and the first couple years were smooth. Then overheating started setting in due to dust clogup and I started cleaning it as best as I could since I could not actually open the fan without having to disassemble the entire dang thing. I bought a cooling pad at the time and I could still run a lot of demanding games on it for quite some years.
I haven't used it much for gaming anymore last 2 years roughly, simply because it can't handle any demanding games anymore for longer periods of time.
Which isn't much of a problem as I've been gaming on the Switch lite instead =P
 
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It's funny how nowadays you find laptops with 16 or 32 GB of RAM everywhere. I never really made much use of the 8 I have on my current one. ^^"

My next one is probably one that is built to last. The only thing I don't like is that every new one seems to come with an SSD instead of an HDD. They are faster. That's true. But they also have a reduced lifespan. So, I don't know what I'll do. I may need to come up with a different backup strategy, too. Just in case.
 
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Did I need a gaming laptop with an RTX 3070 and 32 Go of RAM? Probably, unfortunately I'm only playing LoL on it XD
 
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I've had plenty of rgb keyboards c: the feature grew tiresome rather fast.
 
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My mouse has it, but I don't even pay attention to it xD
I've had it for quite a while now though. Randomly bought it one day just to give it a go.
Can't really justify the higher price tag compared to a normal mouse with what I use it for though so it'll stay a one time thing =P
 
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it can be nice if tasteful but i prefer to just have colored keycaps instead c:
 
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it's a fun hobby but I have other things I need to put money towards soon...
 
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ReKoil said:
Did it come with fancy lighting stuff? It's not 'gaming' if it doesn't have some fancy lights! 😉
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My gaming laptop has fancy lights and my non-gaming laptop just has a red keyboard!
 
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