Battery is almost always under the trackpad area so probably not.
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Latitude 5000 is better built than a Vostro 3000. The Vostro has better specs and will have faster GPU but less durable. That’s the trade off.
Do you need the GPU? CPUs are the same and should perform similarly.
Just so you know, the 7730U is just a rebranded Zen 3 CPU. Its almost identical to the older 5825U. On that note, you can get a refurbished ProBook 445 G9 from HP for $500 with the 5825U. The SSD is small, but easy to upgrade. But the display is also worse than the one you listed, which probably matters to you as a digital artist…but hey maybe you use an external monitor anyways…
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-probook-445-14-inch-g9-notebook-pc-p-7d744u8r-aba-1
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_7_7730u-vs-amd_ryzen_7_5825u
I just thought I would point that out.
Not sure if this will work but it helped be solve some hardware issues in the past on my IdeaPad. Shut down the laptop. Hold the power button down for 60s. Then turn the laptop back on.
I usually leave about 100GB free. But about 250 GB is just games. So I uninstall and reinstall them as needed to make space for other things.
This HP ProBook 445 G7 is a perfect laptop for basic school work under $300. It’s a refurbished business laptop from a few years ago that would have been a daily workhorse for a small business employee for doing basic MS Office, web browser work, simple photo editing, and social media.
Not to bore you with specs but it has a mid range Ryzen 4500U that is a few years old but still holds up well, and 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD which is totally sufficient for office type work. It’s also built well and is meant for workers to take on business trips and so it’ll do well going back and forth from school.
https://www.amazon.com/HP-Probook-445-Laptop-Computer/dp/B09YYXTPZC/
I have the 6800HS RTX 3050 4GB model from last year. I’m not too concerned about the 16GB RAM. Nothing I do is that RAM instensive. Mostly office work, 1080p video editing, and light gaming. And the office work is the only thing I have to do on this laptop, everything else I can do on my desktop. With PCIe gen 4 SSD support, if and when 16GB RAM feels limiting, I will just invest in the best SSD I can for swapping and keep going. Idc about fps in games, if there is something I cant play then I’ll play on my desktop or stream it. Video editing will more or less work off swap, just gotta be more patient. And office and browser work is totally fine running into swap, just need to wait 100ms for tabs to load back in from swap rather than 10ms for them to load in from RAM…no big deal for me.
1·10 months agoThings I would consider good enough on a laptop like that. My entire job, MS office, web browsing, document reading and editing, zoom calls, and other basic office tasks. Also some light photo editing and 1080p video editing. As for gaming, I would play any game up to arouns 2010-2015, like Skyrim would run fine, maybe FO4. As for newer games general esports stuff will be fine, Fortnite, Apex, Overwatch, Rocket League, R6S, LoL, that kind of stuff is no problem. CoD and Tarkov probably not on an MX450. With the easier games, you could even dabble in some Twitch streaming with the Intel iGPU’s encoders.
All in all, you’ll have plenty of options. You wont be able to do and play everything. Like CP2077 and Starfield wont run on that. But the list of games and apps that will run is sufficient.
I can think of a few very stupid and convoluted ways of doing this, but syncing the two displays could be a very very big issue.
Used ThinkPad? Refurbished T480 sounds like a perfect match for you.