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Lenovo LOQ 15AHP10 I just purchased for my son. Bought new in Australia and paid $1500 (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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I just bought this yesterday for my 16 year old son. He is in year 11, doing subjects heavy in maths and science. His old laptop was 8 years old and falling. I had a budget of $1200, reluctantly, as I knew that DDR prices and storage prices had gone through the roof recently. Typically, I have spent $700-800 on laptops for my kids.

I walked into a local retailer and this was presented as a laptop that had been ordered and not collected or paid for. Price was $1,999 firm.

After some negotiation, I walked out with it for $1,500. Way more than I was comfortable spending but it seems to be a good deal, unless I am missing something?

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[–] 138 points 3 months ago (21 children)

We are on Lemmy.

I am obligated to not only ask that you switch to Linux (please do), but I also must suggest a distribution (Mint).

I don't make the rules.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I use Arch btw, so it's my job to say you should totally use Arch.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I haven't used raw Arch, but I have been using Garuda for a while. I'd recommend this or CachyOS rather than pure Arch for someone not used to Linux, and especially a child.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    He has to have windoze for school. No choice. My computer runs mint, my wife’s runs Ubuntu, and my other son runs Arch.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Dual boot maybe and have it be the Tiny 11 version of Windows instead?

    My partner had to still use Windows at the time when I got her a gaming laptop about 2 years ago and it ran so much better under tiny 11 then standard stock Windows. Also fixed a wifi issue some of the bloat ware was causing.

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  • [+] -10 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    I think you mean Manjaro

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    I’ve been using Manjaro for a couple years, and of course didn’t see any of the hate for it when trying to pick a distro, or for the first like 6 months of using it. But tbh the only part of my manjaro experience that isn’t fine is that they disable hardware acceleration for h.264 and h.265, with no easy way to enable it. Which is very annoying since I run a Jellyfin server on my desktop. But overall it’s been trouble-free for me.

    But along with the seemingly constant power struggles over there, makes it hard to recommend. I hear endeavor OS is the new “easy” arch

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