Good laptop deal from ALDI? HP 250 G4 (Celery N3050) $349

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  scrimshaw on 29/03/2016 - 18:13

  HP G4 250(N0C11PA) Celeron N3050/4GB/500GB/15.6"/Win8.1 64bit
  $339.00 from MSY.

  $330 from UMART

  So $349 is kind of an average price.

  and from the Doutlet you can get a refurb Inspiron 15 3000 with Core i3-4005U + 4GB ram for $389 too.

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  peterpeterpumpkin on 29/03/2016 - 18:16

  +1

  It's nice to see they gave it 4 GB of RAM. Who doesn't like opening 50 tabs in their browser?

  To be honest, I'm surprised how slow high-end computers still feel for everyday use despite SSDs and the latest i7 chips. They feel heaps faster for video processing, gaming and data-intensive operations but I expected much more responsiveness for browsing and spreadsheets.

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    GordonR on 29/03/2016 - 22:34

    Isn't the Internet the bottleneck here?

    Doesn't matter whether the browser on a high-powered machine renders a webpage in 0.01 rather than 0.1 seconds if takes 2 seconds total round trip for your request to reach the remote server, the page to be created from a database by the remote server, a few ads to be included from third-party ad-servers, and then the whole lot to be sent back to your browser.

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      peterpeterpumpkin on 29/03/2016 - 22:57

      Yeah I actually meant UI responsiveness. Switching windows/apps, triggering menus and actions, etc. I expected that "hyped-up" feeling like when I installed Windows XP on a modern computer but I've never had it with Windows 10 or 8. I heard Windows 10 often has an incorrectly set virtual memory size. I'm hoping my bad experiences were bloatware or background processes (the faster computers weren't mine so I never found out). Chrome updates used to bring my old computer to a crawl, but I had a traditional spinning hard drive that alerted me something was going on.