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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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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great deal and it should last a while. Don’t listen to the people here recommending you uninstall windows, let your kid figure out what they want to do with it.

You can remove any 3rd party antivirus though, if it came installed. Defender is good enough.

[–] TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First thing we did was uninstall the third party antivirus

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

First thing you do is reinstall Windows. And then run wim11 download script.