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Help Gareth decide on a laptop to buy
ackblom12:
And I've used AMD cpus almost exclusively for close to 15 years and never had an ounce off trouble with them.
cesium133:
Same here. My current laptop has an AMD CPU and I've never had any problems with it.
ankhtahr:
I never ran into any trouble with AMD or ATI chips. Especially the newer CPUs from AMD are great in energy efficiency, at least on par with Intel i5s. Energy efficiency is always related to heat efficiency.
--- Quote from: mtmerrick on 29 Jun 2013, 15:59 ---@anhk- life cycles of SSDs aren't really a concern anymore. Modern SSDs outlast modern HDDs in nearly all scenarios.
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SLC SSDs are very reliable indeed, but are not at all affordable. Most customer SSDs are MLC, and try to create reliability by adding error discovery systems and enough spare space. If you don't use the space of the SSD completely it will likely remain usable longer, and if you take precautions SSDs will work great for a long time, but I wouldn't rely on them completely. With cheaper SSDs even a controller failure can happen, making all data unaccessable. When using a SSD always make backups on ordinary hard drives. Data loss will probably occur at some point.
p.s. Warning - while you were typing 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your thinking speed.
mtmerrick:
@nae - Actually, I am factoring price into this - a lightweight laptop with a decent battery, a smaller SSD, and no GPU will actually be much cheaper than the other way to get that same level of performance - a computer with a pretty good graphics card. He said he won't be gaming or anything like that, so having a GPU just to run your OS nice and smooth is a hilarious waste of money and resources. Plus he wants good battery life and a GPU is a battery hog.
I'm sure he had his reasons for wanting a media laptop and not a smartphone/tablet ;)
@ people taking about AMD
*shrug* my experience says different from yours I guess. Ive worked on hundreds of computers (not really exaggerating) and if someone has a dead computer 90% of the time it's either HDD failure, an HP with cascade system failure (everything going at once), or AMD/ATI related issues. If you've had good luck with them... Good for you. But I'm inclined to say it is just luck on your part.
@anhk- and with the high failure rates of HDDs, it's really just a good idea to do regular backups of your files no matter what type of computer you have.
(also there have been 6 posts since I started writing this)
ackblom12:
Merrick, believe it or not, you are not the only person to have done years worth of work on computers. Different experiences and opinions are fine, but I'd prefer if you stop with the condescending attitude.
The smallest HD I'd ever recommend for an SSD in a Laptop is 256gb. For an SSD this is likely to run you $170+. That's 2 - 3 times the price of a 1tb HD. It's not just a small increase in price.
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