Picked this up at a pawnshop today for $250. 
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Keep an eye on the charging ports and screen. I'm about to be on my 3rd HP Chromebook in 3 years because of recurring issues. Different OS but my 14" had the same parts I'd bet. If you send in the device, they have no idea what they are doing.Picked this up at a pawnshop today for $250.
For me, it's luckily been under warranty so I'm getting the equivalent of an upgrade each year but it's a frustrating experience and I no longer trust them as a company.
Dunno if you've already done it, but you can clone the old HDD to your new SSD, then just set it as the boot drive. Check out Macrium Reflect, it'll clone ya drive for free.
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This is the one the YT video I watched recommeneded. Downloading it now
My computer feels faster but it definitely took me ~10 hours to figure this out . (Technically like 7 hours was me repeatedly cloning my hard drive but a solid three hours of troubleshooting)
The drive clones took 2-3 hours each, and were successful, but whenever I unplugged the old HDD the SSD boot failed to be recognized. After 2-3 attempts, I had to USB boot recovery media and fix the boot partition. From there, I was good to go.
I ended up disconnecting the SATA/Power from the Optical Drive to clone the HHD-> SSD, so I will likely wipe the HDD and keep it as a backup after all.
It definitely took me ~10 hours to figure this out . (Technically like 7 hours was me repeatedly cloning my hard drive but a solid three hours of troubleshooting)
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Was planning to make a new build next year but not sure if this will be viable anymore. Might just make the conversion to high end gaming laptops and trade them in every 2-3 years. Only GPU I have basically going for 1000 right now.
I live down the street from a MicroCenter and it's still ridiculous. 6600xt isn't good enough for me to drop $500 on it. Pre builts with 3060s are like $1300 which isn't terrible but somethings got to give eventually.
Crypto winter might be helping a bit here but idk the extent of that with all these other factors at play
Been like this for a long time and i don't see it changing soon. I held off upgrading now for more than a year and a half.
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duckbutta
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I got a 3090 FE from nvidia site last January and I think retail it was 13 or 1400....
I see the same card on amazon RIGHT NOW for 2800
It's crazy to think if I sold my 3090 for 2k I'd still be 800 short of a new card
This might legit be the first time I rock a gpu until it die
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I'm holding onto this 3070. shyts crazy out here.
thanks for the suggestion.
i did my first pc build wednesday. LOL i know yall probably use to this shyt, but i felt so accomplished went it fired up for the first time and i got into that BIOS. 