• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    A little bit slow and takes forever to download hospital programs and stuff. Been thinking about it for years and saw the HP Essential and thought it my work. I don’t play games I just watch tv and movies.

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      14 hours ago

      A new laptop, even the best in the world, won’t make your downloads any faster.

      I also back what everyone else is saying. Unless of course you can update your current laptop. What have you got? An extra stick of ram and an SSD can make an old laptop feel brand new, especially with an OS reinstall

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        12 hours ago

        A new laptop, even the best in the world, won’t make your downloads any faster.

        I struggle to make sense of this. Most obviously, network cards have gotten better with time. It obviously depends on what you’re coming from and what you’re changing to, but of course a laptop upgrade could make your downloads faster?