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My buddy swore the cheap laptop would be fine for work... he was dead wrong

My friend Mark kept telling me to save money and get that $300 Acer for my new remote job. He said I didn't need anything fancy for just typing emails and using spreadsheets. Well after 6 months that thing was a total brick. Battery life dropped to like 2 hours and it took 5 minutes just to open Chrome with more than 3 tabs. I ended up spending $550 on a Lenovo instead and it's been solid for like a year now. The screen is way better too and I can actually have Zoom calls without the fan sounding like a jet engine. Has anyone else had a friend give terrible laptop advice and you just nodded along until you learned the hard way?
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ninamartin
Did he at least apologize when you had to buy that Lenovo?
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jamiegreen
Did Mark chip in for that new laptop?
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