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tbh neither am I, BUT i feel like i might if the device proves itself.

kinda get this, but like people carry ipads anyway, and i think if the device is powerful enough it'll be worth carrying. maybe they should add 4g?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315423 This is exactly the laptop I have. I know it says "Gaming", but it's really not a gaming laptop. The laptop's build quality is amazing, for one thing. I rough it around walking through campus a LOT, and my dumb friends have dropped it once or twice. Keyboard feels great to type on, it's really a far-cry from most laptop keyboards. The display is mid-tier. It's not amazing, it has okay color saturation and pretty good viewing angles. For normal student use and light gaming, it fulfills its purpose well. Its onboard storage is adequate, 1TB HDD and a 128GB SSD for lighting fast boot and some programs. You'll have to use a lot of programs throughout school, and installing them on that SSD will definitely be nice. It comes with very little bloatware, since Acer's still not a huge brand, plus Windows 10 is fine with some tweaking. I recommend using Classic Shell and disabling all the XBOX stuff. And speaking of the brand, do NOT let people tell you Acer makes nothing but garbage. Their laptops have gotten so much better in just the past two years, 100% worth it in my opinion. Sound is good, okay from the speakers but the on-board soundcard is excellent. The graphics card/cpu are okay for some light gaming on low-high settings depending on the title, but if you're not gaming, then the advantage of having the dedicated graphics card is plainly just excellent performance, Windows never has any stuttering, all programs operate well and the video experience in general is better with a dedicated chip, and as for the processor -- the hyperthreading on the CPU MORE than makes up for it being dual-core. It definitely behaves exactly like its quad-core bigger brothers, the 6200U performs well. Overall, for the price, there's no better mix between excellent powerhouse performance and elegance in design, it's sturdy and light, as well as performing in school and like actual office work, but in case you ever work with any CAD stuff or have a class that requires you use some more intensive program, like a design class and photoshop/premeire, you'll have no problem. And like I said, it does light gaming pretty well, in case you ever wanted to play a few indie games or like a modern title on lowered settings, or even some emulators yknow. I can gush about it a lot, but believe me, it's an excellent laptop, I have it and really do like it a lot.

Depends on the kind of Benchmarks you need, but for general PC use -- Novabench For specifically GPU stresstesting -- The free version of 3DMark For your processor -- Prime95 (Also good for testing sticks of RAM, just keep one in at a time and see if your PC crashes.) And for Hard Drives -- CrystalDiskMark Just PM me if you need any help!

100% interested in it tbh, I skipped out pretty hard on the Wii U and I feel like this might be their "We're sorry we messed up" console. 3DS only gets stronger and stronger, and it's actually got some really mature well developed titles on it. Without a doubt want to try and pick it up if a good showing of titles are up with it.

best game on the 3ds honestly, there's a sort of like story sequel to smt4 that came out recently. I don't even really like jrpgs that much but I've always love the megaten games.

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I get ya, don't worry, I'm used to hard times.

@Peacemaker I think it's because I've been in job/college interview mode for like the past month so I'm just telling my life story whenever it comes to me. whoops!