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scrawnytreedemonI'm eyeing an checks phone ASUS TUF 515 FX507ZCA. Hardly top of the range and not without its drawbacks regarding battery life and things that would be a turn off for hardcore-gamers, but seems like the right price for me. The listing I'm looking at has it around £650~ with the option to pay in £130 monthly installments, or upfront for a slightly blemished one at £624. Could get it now-- It wouldn't totally break the bank --But I'm working an informal part-time job that doesn't pay particularly high so I'm holding off a little to save up and see if the price actually goes down for Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday (you know how it is these days).
As for why I'm considering it to begin with...! My primary computer is a four year old Surface Pro 7 with the flimsy proppable back-panel snapped off and a penchant for overheating. It has 8GB of RAM, which will not cut it for jack shit these days. Storage is an issue-- Something I tried amending by getting a gaming SD card, but is greatly hampered by said SD card disconnecting itself with no warning due to overheating. This has made me shit my pants thrice with terrifying graphical glitches in Sims 2; I do not want to deal with anymore hardware-related data corruption in that game. I would know. I used to play it on an external HDD from 2015. No thank you.
This thing cost my mother over £1000, I want to keep it alive for as long as possible, and regular gaming is not going to help that. Also, I would like to play Hollow Knight without it stuttering so bad I can't get past the beginning area. I did not expect Hollow Knight of all games to be the thing bringing this machine to its knees. It's good for art programs and other relatively low-end tasks, and if I can find a janky little replacement-gadget for the back panel, it should be functionally good as new for my purposes. Seriously, why didn't they just hinge the keyboard like every other laptop? My old cheapo Lenovo was a nightmare, but I respect the hinge on that thing.
We'll see how it goes! The idea has been on my mind since 2022, so it's hardly an impulse purchase.
As for why I'm considering it to begin with...! My primary computer is a four year old Surface Pro 7 with the flimsy proppable back-panel snapped off and a penchant for overheating. It has 8GB of RAM, which will not cut it for jack shit these days. Storage is an issue-- Something I tried amending by getting a gaming SD card, but is greatly hampered by said SD card disconnecting itself with no warning due to overheating. This has made me shit my pants thrice with terrifying graphical glitches in Sims 2; I do not want to deal with anymore hardware-related data corruption in that game. I would know. I used to play it on an external HDD from 2015. No thank you.
This thing cost my mother over £1000, I want to keep it alive for as long as possible, and regular gaming is not going to help that. Also, I would like to play Hollow Knight without it stuttering so bad I can't get past the beginning area. I did not expect Hollow Knight of all games to be the thing bringing this machine to its knees. It's good for art programs and other relatively low-end tasks, and if I can find a janky little replacement-gadget for the back panel, it should be functionally good as new for my purposes. Seriously, why didn't they just hinge the keyboard like every other laptop? My old cheapo Lenovo was a nightmare, but I respect the hinge on that thing.
We'll see how it goes! The idea has been on my mind since 2022, so it's hardly an impulse purchase.
