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I know it is a weird question. The current laptop that I have is a Q550LF Got it from best buy sometime in September or October 2014. Bestbuy still has it in their website database. However I do not know which one I exactly bought (one just has the windows 8.1 update) (I got mine with the optical disk drive) (however I think I did do an update to 8.1), link 1 and link 2. It still is able to update to Windows 10 1809, currently typing this thread in 1809. However after the update it really is acting up.. very little... Windows Explorer could sometimes freeze if I right click and click or hover long enough over "New" to create something new. Other than that, I leave it on 24/7 unless an update or if I really have to take it somewhere. I have disabled sleep on it as sleep rarely if ever works, *separate issue*. It has the effects of 4-5 years, space bar is a barely a little bent, sometimes space would not type because of that, I feel a bunch of touchscreen contacts have been broken.
Good and a little weird news is..... I only have received 5 bad blocks in one instance on Event viewer for the HD.... but this was a while back in December 2018 or January 2019, meaning the HD of my device is slightly longer lasting.
NOW BACK TO THE QUESTION.
Other than hardware age problems, for school work related purposes during undergrad I used the 745M for Android Studio and Android Studio Device Emulation (Android Studio would give error messages if I tried using the integrated Intel HD 4000). I am doing masters now in a field related to Computer and IT/Network Security.
I am looking for a laptop with similar functionality (at least 8 hour battery, Touch screen, numpad, Ethernet port, at least 8GB ram, light up keyboard, and 1TB Hard Drive or 1 TB SSD.), Optionally preferred is Optical Drive, and max price at $1,500.
Other than the Asus laptops I looked at online... I also looked into lenovo ThinkPads, but only 1 is going with my options and that is, Lenovo ThinkPad P52, my question is ifit is necessary to have a GPU for android studio and the Emulator, does the Quadro work with Android Studio?
I know it is a weird question. The current laptop that I have is a Q550LF Got it from best buy sometime in September or October 2014. Bestbuy still has it in their website database. However I do not know which one I exactly bought (one just has the windows 8.1 update) (I got mine with the optical disk drive) (however I think I did do an update to 8.1), link 1 and link 2. It still is able to update to Windows 10 1809, currently typing this thread in 1809. However after the update it really is acting up.. very little... Windows Explorer could sometimes freeze if I right click and click or hover long enough over "New" to create something new. Other than that, I leave it on 24/7 unless an update or if I really have to take it somewhere. I have disabled sleep on it as sleep rarely if ever works, *separate issue*. It has the effects of 4-5 years, space bar is a barely a little bent, sometimes space would not type because of that, I feel a bunch of touchscreen contacts have been broken.
Good and a little weird news is..... I only have received 5 bad blocks in one instance on Event viewer for the HD.... but this was a while back in December 2018 or January 2019, meaning the HD of my device is slightly longer lasting.
NOW BACK TO THE QUESTION.
Other than hardware age problems, for school work related purposes during undergrad I used the 745M for Android Studio and Android Studio Device Emulation (Android Studio would give error messages if I tried using the integrated Intel HD 4000). I am doing masters now in a field related to Computer and IT/Network Security.
I am looking for a laptop with similar functionality (at least 8 hour battery, Touch screen, numpad, Ethernet port, at least 8GB ram, light up keyboard, and 1TB Hard Drive or 1 TB SSD.), Optionally preferred is Optical Drive, and max price at $1,500.
Other than the Asus laptops I looked at online... I also looked into lenovo ThinkPads, but only 1 is going with my options and that is, Lenovo ThinkPad P52, my question is ifit is necessary to have a GPU for android studio and the Emulator, does the Quadro work with Android Studio?
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