Invest in Samsung&#x27;s Ecosystem or Lenovo?

Tbh my experience with Lenovo over the years has been progressively worse. 10 years ago or so they did really high quality stuff at reasonable price points but over time the quality of the materials used and longevity of the machines as a result seemed to just get worse and worse. In the end I stopped buying their stuff.

128 or even 256 GB SSD is not really much "storage". For a laptop that's going to just about fit your OS plus a few bigger bits of software and not have too much space leftover very quickly. And you don't want to cram your SSD to max capacity as they run worse when there's less space. If it doesn't have a dual SSD/HDD setup with a 1 TB HDD as well or something you will definitely want to invest in an external HDD I think.

I don't think the "samsung ecosystem" is worth anything really. Also frankly I think you'd be wiser to invest in a proper laptop than just a tablet.

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Singam21

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Original post by artful_lounger

Tbh my experience with Lenovo over the years has been progressively worse. 10 years ago or so they did really high quality stuff at reasonable price points but over time the quality of the materials used and longevity of the machines as a result seemed to just get worse and worse. In the end I stopped buying their stuff.

128 or even 256 GB SSD is not really much "storage". For a laptop that's going to just about fit your OS plus a few bigger bits of software and not have too much space leftover very quickly. And you don't want to cram your SSD to max capacity as they run worse when there's less space. If it doesn't have a dual SSD/HDD setup with a 1 TB HDD as well or something you will definitely want to invest in an external HDD I think.

I don't think the "samsung ecosystem" is worth anything really. Also frankly I think you'd be wiser to invest in a proper laptop than just a tablet.

I feel this might be a more of a revision tool/notes taking device because when I talked to a few uni students they told me most of the programs you run are on university computers that can handle this easily, what's your experience with it, if your ok to divulge

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Original post by Singam21

I feel this might be a more of a revision tool/notes taking device because when I talked to a few uni students they told me most of the programs you run are on university computers that can handle this easily, what's your experience with it, if your ok to divulge

Yes specialist software will be om uni PC clusters. But a laptop is much more useful for typesetting things (e.g. lab reports).

I don't understand the reluctance of people to just write notes with a pen and paper now.

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Original post by artful_lounger

Yes specialist software will be om uni PC clusters. But a laptop is much more useful for typesetting things (e.g. lab reports).

I don't understand the reluctance of people to just write notes with a pen and paper now.

It's the new generation way of doing things. My kids have got touchscreen graphics tablets to go along with their laptop. They make notes that are saved onto the cloud and their revision goes everywhere with them as accessible on the phone. Makes it easy to revise apparently. I can see some advantages but it's just getting used to a way of working.

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Singam21

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Original post by artful_lounger

Yes specialist software will be om uni PC clusters. But a laptop is much more useful for typesetting things (e.g. lab reports).

I don't understand the reluctance of people to just write notes with a pen and paper now.

Well ive spent the last 2 yrs writing everything in pen and paper, whilst others in my class use ipads etc, and ive now have 5 huge binders worth of notes, ppqs, and required practical write ups, plus stuff on the laptop, whilst they carry around something that weighs one book with 2 yrs worth of notes neatly stored, like mines is easily organised but i can't carry everything, right. they also have saved a lot of printing. Im also looking to get preferably a 2 in1 so ill look to get a keyboard for the tablet for typing up something, sorry i didn't mention its a 2 in 1

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Original post by Singam21

Well ive spent the last 2 yrs writing everything in pen and paper, whilst others in my class use ipads etc, and ive now have 5 huge binders worth of notes, ppqs, and required practical write ups, plus stuff on the laptop, whilst they carry around something that weighs one book with 2 yrs worth of notes neatly stored, like mines is easily organised but i can't carry everything, right. they also have saved a lot of printing. Im also looking to get preferably a 2 in1 so ill look to get a keyboard for the tablet for typing up something, sorry i didn't mention its a 2 in 1

You're not going to ohysically carry around notes for more than a single term at a time at most.

Not sure what the relevance of printing is as you'll either need to submit assignments digitally or physically- have not come across a situation where you have a choice of either. For some things like dissertations you need to submit both digitally and physically usually.

In any event my thoughts on lenovo are there. For 2 in 1 type devices ive generally heard positive things about MS surfaces.

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Singam21

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Original post by artful_lounger

You're not going to ohysically carry around notes for more than a single term at a time at most.

Not sure what the relevance of printing is as you'll either need to submit assignments digitally or physically- have not come across a situation where you have a choice of either. For some things like dissertations you need to submit both digitally and physically usually.

In any event my thoughts on lenovo are there. For 2 in 1 type devices ive generally heard positive things about MS surfaces.

Alright thats great, thank you for your help

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