[NBLUG/talk] When to buy a laptop? Where's the "sweet spot" these days?

[Zack Gold]

My gut feeling says Black Friday or right after Christmas.
On Nov 15, 2014 12:24 PM, "Steve S." <northbaygeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> H'lo, folks...
>
> I haven't been following the world of Intel/Win much these days.  My
> daughter, away at college, needs a replacement laptop.  I'm hoping
> that folks here have the info off-the-tops-of-their-heads that I'd
> need hours of research to achieve...
>
> #1/marketing:  when is the "good time" to buy, before next semester
> starts in January?  Black Friday sales?  Pre-Xmas?  Post-Xmas
> clearance?  Or is this info just not really "knowable" because the
> marketers' strategies are so arcane?
>
> #2/tech(ish):  Where is the "sweet spot" of price/performance these
> days?  She's needing enough power for reasonably-heavy crunch (she's
> likely to need stats like SAS/R, and likely some GIS too)?
>
> Many thanks for any info/advice!
>
>
> - Steve S.
>
>
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