{"id":33950,"date":"2021-08-16T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=33950"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T21:38:37","slug":"back-to-school-laptop-the-gaming-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/16\/back-to-school-laptop-the-gaming-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School Laptop: The Gaming Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m reminded by a piece in Digital Trends<\/a> that this is back to school laptop buying season. So, I have some advice.<\/p>\n

1) Don’t go back to school. There is a pandemic.<\/p>\n

2) But you still need a laptop, but don’t get suckered into buying a “gaming laptop” so you can game and oh, also, do your school work on it. See the above linked commentary for a convincing argument, but here I’ll just point out three problems with a gaming laptop for school.<\/p>\n

a) They are expensive, and even if you get a cheap one, the resources you are buying are mainly for super fancy graphics, which are not homework.<\/p>\n

b) They run hot and burn through batteries like [insert metaphor here when I think of it later].<\/p>\n

c) There are cheaper and easier ways to demonstrate to your new friends at college that you are a gamer geek.<\/p>\n

3) I recently bought a laptop, and in so doing, narrowed the good ones down to two, one by Dell (Dell XPS 13 9310 Touchscreen<\/a> or some version thereof) and one by HP (Envy x360 2-in-1 15.6″ Touch-Screen<\/a> or some version thereof). Check out the different options and sizes. I got the HP a few months ago because at the time it was the only 17 inch available). A third option is the one by Lenovo mentioned in the above cited piece (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano<\/a>), but I don’t have research on that. At one time Lenovo was the only laptop I’d buy, but then IBM sold them off and the quality range shifted. I don’t know of the current status of that make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m reminded by a piece in Digital Trends that this is back to school laptop buying season. So, I have some advice. 1) Don’t go back to school. There is a pandemic. 2) But you still need a laptop, but don’t get suckered into buying a “gaming laptop” so you can game and oh, also, … Continue reading Back to School Laptop: The Gaming Mistake<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5028],"tags":[6248],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/computer-parts-robot3.jpg?fit=552%2C564&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8PA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33952,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions\/33952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}