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Would YOU buy an 18" old gaming lappy?

Blue_Max

Blue_Max

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Someone is selling a Toshiba Quosimo 18.4" gaming lappy... good reviews from back in the day but it's got a few "glitches" (random restarts) and zero battery.

i7 1st-generation, GTS 360m video.

Even at $180 plus a few trinkets to trade, it feels like a bad idea...

Big gaudy thing would not look professional at my work desk either.

Still... it's big and better than Intel HD 4400 graphics... and cheap.
 
In my world, a lappy is for travel, and travel with anything larger than 15.5-in is a loser, big time. Ergo, short answer = no.
 
No. Those things were hot, extremely heavy and random freezes and restarts is not something you want in a work computer. That GPU isn't really the best either. Also whats the point in having a laptop if there's no battery?

If you want a professional looking but still decently powerful 17inch+ laptop for a good price I would look at the Dell Precision M6400/M6500. Any laptop that big and heavy won't be much fun to lug back and forth to work though.
 
Definitely not. 18" is too big. Old laptops have bad battery life, degraded batteries, make too much heat, etc.
 
Thanks for the advice. I took it and got SUPER lucky with someone selling a 15" lappy with low-end geforce for a lousy $100. Steal of a deal on a reliable Intel I3 w/ HD 3000 + GeForce 525 graphics...

not fancy, but over double the speed of the HD 4000 I was using before the lappy got ruined. Plus $100 will be easy to swallow if it gets damaged in my daily transit!
 
Wow. $100? Killer deal. Paid $250 for my MUCH lower specced HP Stream 14. Granted I didn't really buy it for the specs.
 
"Even at $180 plus a few trinkets to trade, it feels like a bad idea..."

your gut is reaching out to your inner soul.

save yourself ...

it's a toshiba laptop in the first place, and that, is the underlying problem, lol...

edit: oh, see it now lol
 
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I guess you didn't read OP's final resolution, #10 above. He did indeed save himself. 🙂
 
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