New cheap laptop...

[ImcLoud]

Hey guys, I figure I would ask this here...

I am in the market for an inexpensive laptop with the wireless display function, just to stream to the screen in my office. I recently had a company come out and teach my techs how not to catch themselves on fire or run themselves over with the equipment (yeah, a room full of guys I am paying $30 an hour to learn how not to kill themselves doing the job they have done {and survived} for 20 years...), but the insurance company makes it mandatory so anyway back to the point of the point), the gentleman streamed the entire class onto our tv from his laptop, it worked awesome, and will work great for going over jobs with customers, my guys, inspectors, ect.... So I asked him about it and he showed me how it worked......

OK so my pc guy found me a laptop that has it and will work, new but old stock from January 2012.

Processor:	Intel® Core™ i5-2410M processor (2.30GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 2.90GHz
Color:	Silver
Display:	13.3" LED backlit display (1600x900)
Operating System:	Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Optical Drive:	Blu-ray Disc™ player
Wireless Display:	Intel® Wireless Display technology
Solid State Drive:	128GB solid state drive
Memory:	4GB (4GB fixed onboard + 1 open SDRAM slot) DDR3-SDRAM-1333

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Its a Viao and I have 3 of them already and I was looking for another laptop just to keep in the conference room...

The original price was $3200 and he can get it for $511 shipped with a 1 yr warranty..

Does it sound worth it or should I keep looking, I have to let him know by tonight... thanks, I am not really up to date on what is new in PC land... I wanted to spend under $750... thanks

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I don't see anything wrong with this laptop, well except one red flag for me - Win7 Home - In any biz environment it should be upgraded to Pro
I don't know if you have windows Active directory domain, most bushiness do - you can't join home editions of windows to domain.

 

[ImcLoud]

I don't see anything wrong with this laptop, well except one red flag for me - Win7 Home - In any biz environment it should be upgraded to Pro
I don't know if you have windows Active directory domain, most bushiness do - you can't join home editions of windows to domain.

I should have added we are going to be going to windows 8 pro, not sure if he is going to switch this one too, but he is doing the 2 office units, my office unit, and 2 laptops, but I'm not sure why he is waiting, not even sure if he can do this one since its a cheaper unit? My office manager bought a pc with wi 8 to get used to it already.. But this laptop is just going to be for the con. room, probably wont see much daily use...

And I have heard him use terms like "active domain directory utility" so I think we do have that, lol...

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Don't go to win8 pro, stick with win7 pro. Trust me on this.
Conference rooms usage may vary, sometimes it's useful to have access to company files right on presentation laptop.
We have 5 conference rooms and some have only internet access (vs access to corp network) and it's sometimes becomes an annoyance in my experience.
I believe win7 have easy build-in way to upgrade it's version up if needed.

Also any win8 pro windows has free downgrade right to win7 pro.

 

[ImcLoud]

Don't go to win8 pro, stick with win7 pro. Trust me on this.
Conference rooms usage may vary, sometimes it's useful to have access to company files right on presentation laptop.
We have 5 conference rooms and some have only internet access (vs access to corp network) and it's sometimes becomes an annoyance in my experience.
I believe win7 have easy build-in way to upgrade it's version up if needed.

Also any win8 pro windows has free downgrade right to win7 pro.

I just asked her we have windows 7 pro rite now, and we are waiting for Ernie to do something with the monitors and then going to 8pro which is costing me a bunch of money for some reason, I will look into this, we only have one conference room, my office, and 2 desks in the front office, there is a pc in the garage but it is by itself not connected to anything else just the internet... The others are connected to the entire system which is also linked to each trucks gps and tablet w/ printer, but we are changing from all of that to smart phones {already have the phones, just waiting for the bluetooth printers, then everything except the gps will run through them phones, invoices, schedules, and po#s.... The tablet system worked good for a while and still works but they are starting to break here and there, and it gets expensive to repair or replace since they are 5 years old, plus out of 5 printers 3 still work correctly, and having ghe guys write out invoices is troublesome and time consuming... Its worth the investment just not to have to decipher their chicken scratch... Plus the phones will scan in credit cards the tablets don't they have to call into the office with the info which is time consuming a pain in the @ss and called in cc's charge me more for the transaction than swiped in...


I was worried about the 128gb my other computers are way more!!! But he says its new not to worry about it, so Im thinking high gb is not important anymore?, plus he said this one lasts forever and can take being banged around a little better...

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I was worried about the 128gb my other computers are way more!!! But he says its new not to worry about it, so Im thinking high gb is not important anymore?, plus he said this one lasts forever and can take being banged around a little better...

128gb (byte according to storage makers is 1000 bits, but according to everyone else is 1024) ,about 118gb useful. 20-30gb for windows 7/8 itself. the rest for your data.
88gb could be plenty or very little depends on the usage. for light usage for presentation use it seems quite a lot to me

 

[ImcLoud]

128gb (byte according to storage makers is 1000 bits, but according to everyone else is 1024) ,about 118gb useful. 20-30gb for windows 7/8 itself. the rest for your data.
88gb could be plenty or very little depends on the usage. for light usage for presentation use it seems quite a lot to me

Thanks so it sounds like that should be the laptop for me, thanks for all your help, its dangerous thing, being computer savvy like you, you end up having to answer a lot of questions, I appreciate it..

 

[Irvrobinson]

128gb (byte according to storage makers is 1000 bits, but according to everyone else is 1024) ,about 118gb useful. 20-30gb for windows 7/8 itself. the rest for your data.
88gb could be plenty or very little depends on the usage. for light usage for presentation use it seems quite a lot to me

You apparently haven't had enough coffee yet. A kilobyte to the storage industry is 1000 bytes, not 1000 bits, and to the rest of the world, 2**10 bytes, or 1024 bytes. In industry standard abbreviations a lower-case "b" designates bits, and an upper-case "B" designates bytes. But of course, you know all of this, and you're just caffeine deprived.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]