Yes I disagree. It seems to be a common misconception that you can suck it out. But you can't. In fact I read you can sometimes damage the fins of the fan by trying to suck it out. fwiw anyways..Cheers!
Typical useful life of your trading laptop
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Computers haven't really changed much in the last 5 years, gone are the days of PC's doubling in speed every 2 - 3 years, they might have more transistors but that's just more cores useable speed isn't changed that much.
Laptops get dropped and bashed around, I go for near bottom end and replace when required, £250 area in the UK.
My PC at home, which still just about plays games is 4 or 5 years old and it was cheap bottom of the range at the time, unless I spend big $$$$'s it's like 20% faster, which even then is only really relevant for games, which I rarely get the chance to play anyway.
I trade mainly off Tablets ( Ipad Air and Lenova Yoga 2 ) and my 5.5" phone, so not a huge issue anyway these days.
Laptops get dropped and bashed around, I go for near bottom end and replace when required, £250 area in the UK.
My PC at home, which still just about plays games is 4 or 5 years old and it was cheap bottom of the range at the time, unless I spend big $$$$'s it's like 20% faster, which even then is only really relevant for games, which I rarely get the chance to play anyway.
I trade mainly off Tablets ( Ipad Air and Lenova Yoga 2 ) and my 5.5" phone, so not a huge issue anyway these days.
Wrong, gain in productivity with updated CPU/memory after every 2 years is minimal and in certain years you might actually get a downgrade - entirely possible with Intel pricing. This isn't 1995, there aren't dramatic changes every few years, best you can hope for is incremental performance increase that you might not notice.
This all assuming you have at least 8GB of memory and an SSD.
I know what you mean by that. bigger is not always better.
i had a big monitor and a high-end gaming PC once too...it really made the room temperature feel ugghh
...that's why I kind of want to switch to a basic laptop ...to minimize as much footprint and heat as possible.
(Also lightbulbs/lamps, the traditional round one produces alot of heat...the modern twisty one's don't.)
I'm currently eyeing this laptop, to replace my desktop PC:
ASUS ROG G752VT-DH72 17-Inch Gaming Laptop
The heat was mostly from the GPU, newest generation of Nvidia cards are much better, times have changed. You can nowadays build a medium power (not super-high end) gaming PC that's quiet and cool for very little money.
Also, ITX cases are amazing, I used Cooler Master Elite 110 which fits into a bigger backpack. The build is slightly difficult because you need to operate in very tight spaces, need to be careful and plan things ahead (installation order, cabling) but the result is worth it.
There is absolutely zero need to buy a big tower these days, I guess most do it out of habit as those nowadays are intended for people with 3+ drives and 2 GPUs.
Your hard-drive is the slowest part, CPU and memory are usually just waiting for the hard-drive to feed it data as they're fast (assuming they're not ancient). An SSD is multiple times faster, therefore making the overall experience much smoother since you're not waiting for your hard-drive to load files any longer.
I'm still using a hard-drive since I have plenty of memory but I would definitely recommend switching to SSD to anyone who wants to buy only one drive and isn't storing terabytes of porn.
Like d08!
Platform will loads faster, in case of a reboot power cut say, it'll load back up faster, it's hard to go back when you've gone SSD and no annoying HDD rattle sound.
Porn extracts much faster LOL
Oh, the rattle sound seems to have disappeared in newer drives. Seagate was the worst at this and I will never buy their products again as they have by far the worst quality.