Hey lowyat peeps, I'll be getting a my first laptop this week and I intend to keep this laptop for at least 5 years. The laptop is mainly for gaming and collegework so I'll be carrying it around here and there. Any advice is appreciated. TY

gaming and work in same machine? only 1 advice. backup!

Thx for the reply. Yeah ill keep all my work in a separate hard drive.

1) do backup on regular basis.

2) get a good laptop bag with padding.

3) treat it like PRECIOUS, then it will tahan a long way, even longer than 5 years.

Just call me smeagol :-D

Do regular maintenance and you are good to go.

Just have everything on cloud - Dropbox, GoogleDrive, OneDrive and have them on autosync.
Not only it helps with backups, it helps you keep files consistent among the machines.

By maintenance do u mean sending it back to the manufacturer?

Great idea man. THX

either send it back or do it yourself.

Such as cleaning the air vents and fan and re paste thermal paste.

Buy a pro series SSD..it help

Keep your milo jar far far away

This post has been edited by OvenBaked: Aug 10 2015, 05:11 PM

Hahaha

What laptop will you get?gaming laptop?or just a normal one?

O will search on YouTube. TQ

HAHAHA I read that post

Getting the Z5 :-P

Then ask prince j lo

I asked when I got mine.
Can bring back to them. Hope can last me at least 5 years

This post has been edited by huislaw: Aug 10 2015, 08:36 PM

illigear laptop quite last long,always can heard some good review from user that using old model

This post has been edited by evum seu: Aug 10 2015, 08:45 PM

hardware wise, there are a lot of issues you have to take into account. Some laptops won't even allow you to dismantle the backpanel. When you do, warranty is void. Nobody can give proper hardware advice, unless you state what model you're using.


As for software, many people have given sufficient advice. Just be wary of what you upload to the cloud. Its a good place to make sure things don't go missing, but it is not the best place unless you have the moolah to keep it (unless you're using office 356 which gives you 1TB as long as your subscription is alive)