<p dir="ltr">My gut feeling says Black Friday or right after Christmas.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 15, 2014 12:24 PM, "Steve S." <<a href="mailto:northbaygeek@gmail.com">northbaygeek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">H'lo, folks...<br>
<br>
I haven't been following the world of Intel/Win much these days. My<br>
daughter, away at college, needs a replacement laptop. I'm hoping<br>
that folks here have the info off-the-tops-of-their-heads that I'd<br>
need hours of research to achieve...<br>
<br>
#1/marketing: when is the "good time" to buy, before next semester<br>
starts in January? Black Friday sales? Pre-Xmas? Post-Xmas<br>
clearance? Or is this info just not really "knowable" because the<br>
marketers' strategies are so arcane?<br>
<br>
#2/tech(ish): Where is the "sweet spot" of price/performance these<br>
days? She's needing enough power for reasonably-heavy crunch (she's<br>
likely to need stats like SAS/R, and likely some GIS too)?<br>
<br>
Many thanks for any info/advice!<br>
<br>
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- Steve S.<br>
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--<br>
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of<br>
childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -CS Lewis<br>
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