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Originally Posted by Great68
^I dunno, I think I5's are perfectly acceptable for general light duty (browsing, email, simple apps).
I bought a couple refurb T14's with I5-1145's, 16G ram and 256G for $500. I find them perfectly serviceable for general use. One lives in my garage so I can steam tunes to my stereo in there, or look up stuff when I need it while I'm working things.
The other is just kind of a floater inside the house when I want to surf on the couch or whatever. I used to use my work laptop all the time for this, but now I don't need to. They started locking so much shit down that it had become a pain.
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2 companies I worked for were VERY LOCKED down on work laptop. No gmail, no whatsapp, no USB, heck we could barely use FB messenger. Both company I was dealing with sensitive info so I totally get it. 1 of them I had to get vetted up to NATO-specific requirements.
I push everything via my work laptop to the max, docking station, dual monitor 34 inch ultrawide with all other gadgets. Not a huge issues, but I think everyone I see at work (during share screens), people have like 30 tabs opened, 14 spreadsheets ... normal i5 won't do it no more.
Lastly, battery does make a huge difference, i used to only last 1.5 hrs, now my laptop is 5+ hrs no problem... and it's just a dell