Need advice on SSD laptop options

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Originally Posted by Bearcat

It's fun to go after specs, but unless you're spinning up VMs or gaming or whatever, you'll just have a bunch of RAM sitting and doing nothing for performance, etc.... 16GB RAM is more than enough for even the shittiest memory hogs of software like Teams and Outlook, much less internet browsing.. an i7 or similar is plenty fast and probably overkill most of the time, get plenty of storage for all that porn I mean Chiefs highlights.

Your biggest bottleneck these days will always be Windows and if 99% of what you do is in Chrome, you're better off just spinning up a Linux distro and then enjoying the 15 seconds to boot up to a usable desktop, as opposed to paying for a bunch of specs and still having a shitty experience because Windows.

If EVERYTHING you do is in Chrome, go Chromebook. I have 2 of them. I have a high-end one that cost $500. It's plenty powerful enough to run Windows but if you bought a Windows machine with the same specs, it probably double the price.

I have ChromOS, MacOS, Windows, and Linux running here.