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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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Genuinely curious, what do you even use a laptop for when doing maths and science? UK here and I did both at A-level which is year 12/13. I don't think we really touched a computer for it, maybe the occasional pdf of an old exam paper.

I had a laptop, but it was mostly used for running a minecraft server.

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

    typing up some essays, thats what i used family pc back a few decades ago

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Essays for maths and science?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (2 children)

    We also did English language, literature and history. Donno what school is like now but we had to do a fair number of subjects 11-16. And yes some more humanities centered ones had essays to do

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