While I am still trying to hash out my networking project, I can’t help but be impressed by the price of technology these days.  Oh yeah, a tablet can run you some big money, but look what you can get in a laptop for the same price these days…

I’m checking out an HP Pavilion for a new portable work station for my day job.  I have a pretty tight budget, but I seem to be able to get a 17.3″ screen, 4gb memory, quality AMD CPU, 640 gb hard drive, with awesome screen technology and a very decent graphics card for under $500.00.  My very first laptop didn’t cost as much and it had about one tenth the power.

Though I would like to have more memory in the unit, it is expandable up to 8GB, which I might take care of as time goes on.  However, the real question is how long will this package last?

Technology seems to keep moving faster every day.  Before you know it, graphics applications and websites are using up more and more of your computer’s CPU and memory, the files you’re working on are getting bigger, and you need more communication between your system and the web to run applications that make your world go round.

So how long would this affordable laptop be able to keep me going?  I’d like to hope for at least 4 years – including the ram upgrade.   Does anyone else have another guess?

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