No, I'm not selling anything. I recently bought a cheap laptop (they cost about double in Mexico as they do in the US) and started reading the Acer Computer forums. I answered a few questions that were posted, and Acer made me a low-level question answerer.
Before buying any computer, before you put down any money, ask yourself "What do I want to use this machine for?" And the second most important question is "Do I want to play high-end games?"
If your answer is "Yes" to question 2, you should buy a desktop. If your answer is "No," I can give you some good free advice.
Thanks for warning.Here in Mexico we are seeing a flood of cheap tablets in the stores. Same advice: write down the model number, go home, and look it up on the web. Of course they can't be upgraded to Windows 11--that's why they're cheap. But they might be worth their low price.
AND some folks are forming tech companies, buying obsolete parts from various companies, and slapping cheap computers together. After selling them to stores, the company dissolves. No one to sue, and no one to give you a refund or support. NEVER buy any type of computer from an off-brand company.
Temperature is one of the great killers of laptops. Generally, the insides won't be destroyed until you hit 170F, but the parts will wear out faster at any high temperature. Merely placing some small object under the back of your laptop will raise the bottom off your desk, and that will drop the temperature about 10 degrees. You can buy a cooling fan that sits under your laptop--it will blow cooler air over the bottom, lowering the temperature about ten degrees. (Some critics point out that raising the laptop will accomplish just as much.)
With about 1/6 the inside space of a desktop, a laptop has to struggle to stay cool. Its one exhaust fan is smaller than the exhaust fans on a desktop. Its vents are smaller, and it has less surface area to radiate heat. Start playing high tech games, and you're heading for even more trouble.
But cheap laptops have an advantage over powerful ones. Their CPU (the computer chip) runs at a much lower temperature. With proper care, a cheap laptop can actually last you more than eight years.
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