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Help me choose a laptop!
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Might be hard at that price point but try to avoid anything with a hard drive. You definitely want an SSD.
If you feel adventurous it’s really not difficult to swap a hard drive for SSD, if you are ok doing that it will open up a lot more options.
Sorry, what's an SSD and why is it better than a hard drive?
SSD stands for Solid State Drive. Hard drives have spinning disks, they wear out much faster, especially in portable devices like a laptop. They are also MUCH slower than SSD’s. System responsiveness is going to be way better with an SSD. Just changing HDD to SSD, a super slow, nearly unusable system, can become completely usable for day to day activities.