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Yes I am a gamer, no I don't want to use the Laptop for gaming.

The Laptop in question is the 'Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 Gen 7', I can't out right purchase it outright as any device is way to pricy for me. So it would be an monthly payment through 2 years.

Why do I want the Laptop?
I've been pushing myself to edit videos and have got to the stage that I have registered a company that I'll be doing this under. Sure my PC would do the ok job, it runs the programs I need such as Premiere Pro but I feel a more portable set up might be needed in the future for as my partner wants to go away to so many places in the future, the ability to move rooms in the house when I feel I no longer can work in the room such as my office to the sitting room as well as if it comes to it I can use the laptop for more 'high-end' gaming on the go in my spare time.

Why this Laptop?
Well I saw it on my phone providers website as I was checking when my current laptop is due to finish it's cycle (The laptop I have currently only have 4GB of ram and can barely open the internet) also it cost like ~£40 a month.

How much would I be paying?
The cost on the website is £42 a month with £10 upfront cost.

This does come with a 'bonus' of 2 year subscriptions of Microsoft Office 365 and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just be careful of what other comments mentioned. That battery life means it will practically be a desktop in no time. Maybe have 2-3 charged spares.

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 2 points 10 months ago

@Sanctus I will keep that in mind, there isn't many locations that I can think of that will not have power so I'm lucky in that way. I will most likely change the battery inside of the laptop after a year or so to make sure that it's still able to boot without being plugged in when I need it for that bit of work.

TBH seems like most of the downsides are rather because of it being monthly payments instead of outright paying for it but I understand that but can't outright purchase atm (Maybe in the future with my edits).

and the other downsides is that it's a laptop so it has battery that can slowly degrade and won't last a long, long time. As well as the screen being not colour perfect, what I don't have on my current cheap monitors anyway, so really it's a massive upgrade for me.