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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Laptop prices are not quite as you think. The problem is that because the most common scree used is 15.6" at at poor resolution of 1366x768, only laptops with those screens will be cheap. And if you go 17.3", most are 1600x900. So a laptop with a 17.3" screen at 1920x1080 (full HD) is going to cost more than $500.
Then you have the hassle of having to start over. That means moving all your data, installing all of your programs, configuring the OS and the programs how you want them. Overall, it's a hassle you can avoid if you buy a really good laptop now that will last for longer than 3 years before no longer being good enough. a $500 laptop will maybe last 3 years if you are lucky. A 15.6" with 1366x768 resolution isn't even going to last 1 week here. if I'm going to bother to spend the money, I might as well get something I want be complaining about how lousy it is.
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You might be right, if the single qualifying factor for how worthy a laptop is, was the quality of the screen.
Screen resolution can go shove itself -- I hardly do anything that requires any sort of good resolution in the slightest, and am quite contented with whatever-is-considered-reasonably-good-at-the-time.
Honestly -- I have no idea what the resolution of my laptop is, but given it is ~11 yrs old, probably not very good.
I would definitely consider upgrading (it is a bit of an experiment for me, that is why I keep it) -- for an improved CPU and suchlike. It would help me run things faster, and multitask better...