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0 pointsverall2y ago0 comments

I have seen this happen to many friends, older gaming laptops either dying or running much slower than expected while my desktop just chugs along.

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_2z1p2y ago

Gaming laptops are particularly prone to this because of all the heat they generate. Desktops have much better mechanisms for dealing with heat.

Hextinium2y ago

This is where buying "professional grade" does often save you. I have seen tons of Dell Latitudes and Lenovo Thinkpads that look like a black brick but are still going 5+ years later. They actually invested in thermals and it shows. (Written on a 7 year old Thinkpad).

nerdponx2y ago

I had to repaste the CPU in my old Thinkpad after a couple of years, but overall I got several years of hard use out of it (including playing games on it in hot apartments) before I destroyed it with an unplanned rapid deceleration.

ItsBob2y ago

It's funny you should say that... I just bought a 6? year old Latitude E7470 for £189 last week.

I had one years ago and it was built like a tank. Also, the screen (2560x1440) is possibly the best I've had on a laptop and the keyboard has particularly deep and solid travel making it the best typing experience I've had on a laptop too.

So, best laptop I've had tbh.

It's only an i7 6600U so not mega powerful but I don't write 2M LOC apps anyway so it's fine.

Just waiting on 32GB RAM arriving (official support is 16GB but the chipset supports 32).

I agree 100%... business-class laptops (and printers for that matter) all the way.

Narishma2y ago

Agreed. I'm typing this on a 15 years old Latitude that still works fine.

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