Kudos to you for keeping old gear going; at 15, I'd say you did about as good as you can do. If there is a perk to that, it's that even a lower-end system today will equal or exceed the performance of the older one. What sort of budget are you looking at? And have you considered something like mini-PCs? I work as a Network Admin and have built my own computers and stuff since 1991, so happy to help if I can.

I don't know man, like it's been a while ago, technology crazily rised the price af. I had a HP Envy-15 K101 I think? This one were the last laptops having a cd tray, 16GB RAM, 1 TB, GeForce 840M. I definitely need a laptop here, because I have a clothing business that I run with my boyfriend. Since he live very far I tend to stay in order to save some gas. And having a big PC I don't have neither the space, unfortunately

Okay, so 4th gen i7-series ultra CPU. Performance-wise, modern systems can match that easily. 16G of RAM was very impressive for that time, and I would say that's a good minimum today. Hard drive wise, 1TB is also good to stick with or exceed. So... where you go with CPU may depend on how much you need to get out of the battery. If battery life is important and you want/need 4+ hours from it, then you usually have to look at the "ultra" series from Intel, or U-series of Ryzen processors from AMD. If you don't need a lot of battery life, the non-ultra versions of those processors will double or triple CPU performance.

If buying new, you're likely looking at around 24,700 to 36,400 pesos to get something with a 15 to 16" screen, 1TB NVme or more drive, a CPU about twice or more what you had, and at least 16GB RAM. Modern laptops won't have a CD/DVD drive anymore. Something to consider though; off-lease business laptops.

In both the US and Canada, it's very common to find re-sellers that deal in off-lease business equipment. With these, you can usually find 3 to 5 year old business laptops (Dell's Latitude series or Precision series, HP's Elite books, Lenovo's Thinkpads, etc.) for way, way cheaper than retail. You may need to get a new battery for them, but often these can be a way to get into a pretty powerful and reliable machine for half to a quarter the price of a new one. You do have to be careful though with what you intend to do with it. For example, if you are needing to run Windows on it, then you want to buy something that is capable of running Windows 11, which means the CPU has to be pretty recent (about 5 years old or less) and it has to have TPM 2.0 module in the BIOS for security. Some older systems won't have this. For example, I writing this on an i7-8700 portable workstation, which is fairly modern, but too old to meet Microsoft's silly standards for Windows 11. If you don't run Windows (which I don't) then who cares, but if you do, you want to make sure you're not stuck when Windows 10 becomes unsupported/dead in October of this year.

Did you have any particular brand preference or budget or things I can help narrow some choices down with?

That laptop was amazing, but she did what she had to give. I had it as a warranty from an Asus that had a factory failure and got it by paying a bit more.

**I've heard Ryzen is better than Intel and is more economic, is that true?**

I was thinking of getting MSI, ASUS or Lenovo. For HP, I feel like they stopped making good computers, or that's what I feel xD

Also I truly prefer a new equipment because of the warranty and because I want it new, I don't trust on used machine except for videogames (I don't really care on those anymore xd) . About the price range, I could really go higher but that'd depend on my savings, I really really wish I had an MSI Raider or a ROG STRIX SCAR, if I go fancy, I'd need one with good sound and alphanumeric keyboard, because I do a lot of accountant with my bf business.

Personally I would recommend against getting a "gaming laptop" since they tend to have horrible quality for what they cost, and aren't designed to last. In fact most of them seem designed to fail because it's the only way to "encourage" customers to buy new products these days. Moores law being dead and all that.

If you want good sound in a laptop, Apple is the only one I know of that have speakers that are more than just "it's passable". But if that's out of your price range, or you want Windows, know that you might need to buy a bluetooth speaker or something if you have high audio standards. If sound is important to you, make sure you go out and test the laptop personally in a store or something, so you know what they sound like. A lot of laptops have all these brand names and technologies thrown around to make them seem like they have god-tier speakers, but still sound like trash in reality.

If you want an alphanumeric keyboard you'll need to get a 16 inch or bigger. Smaller ones don't have enough space to fit the numpad. But that means it'll be larger, heavier and more expensive. If that's something you want to avoid then know that you can always buy a USB numpad to plugin.

And yeah, I would definitely recommend AVOIDING HP. Currently they're the industry "black sheep" both because of their scummy behavior with printers, and because of how their computer hardware tends to be designed to be horribly anti-repair. Their "professional" line of PCs is still somewhat okay, but for that price you're much better off going with some other brand like Lenovo.

Rexxagon has some good points in his reply - I'd second that opinion for sure.

Yeah, HP is definitely not what they used to be for quality. MSI, Asus, & Lenovo are good choices. Dell's upper-end business class stuff is good, but pricey. There are other unique options like System76's unique and very customizable systems, but if you want Windows you'd have to get it and install yourself (they come with Linux).

As for Ryzen CPUs, yes, they are an excellent choice. Intel's product has been pretty dated for a while now, and while a safe choice, they are not really the better CPU these days. The last two X86 systems I've gotten have been Ryzen-based and they have been fantastic. Recently, I just got a Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen5 which has a Ryzen 7 Pro. Got this to replace a 10+ year old ultra book, got it on a Lenovo sale for about $1400 Cdn late last year. They have versions of it with 15 and 16" screens which might be more of what you're looking for. Came with Windows 11 Pro, though I formatted it and put Mint Linux on it.

The only thing you have to be careful of now is where the laptop is sourced from; you definitely want to get something shipped directly rather than through the US otherwise you could get nailed by their ridiculous tariff war.

Suggestion, cus afriend of mine accidentally spilled soda on my newer laptop and a year later several keys started failing: Buy an external keyboard and put on top of the broken keyboard. Small sizes can be obtained that will sit neatly on top of most keyboards with tiny feet elevating them so they do not touch the keyboard underneath. Looks stupid, but works. And rather 20 bucks for an immidiate temporary solution than having to find severl hundreds now.

Something like this: https://amazn.so/xlKmDvv

And if no model you can afford has feet to elevate it above the keyboard underneath, you can buy this: https://amazn.so/Rjiodw2

Best of luck

Thank you for the tip man!

Happy to help.

Also, if needed: Based on what I read from your journal and in the comment with someone else, you would need something that at minimum matches the following hardware specs:

RAM: 16 GB
Storage: 1 TB (go for SSD if you can, it will just be faster overall, but HDD is still usefull)
CPU: Intel Core i5 2.30 GHz Processor
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Graphics card

All of this is fairly old. Like this was high-end 8-10 years ago, but it is mid- to low-end now. This setup can still play most recent games on mid to low settings (Think satisfactory, Anno 1800, FF14 or Warframe), so it will be able to handle a lot of various programs for both business and media creation.

In case you may not know: You can compare hardware on this website: https://www.userbenchmark.com/

Compare the stats of the laptops you will be looking to buy with either the hardware I mentioned or your old laptop stats (mainly only CPU and GPU matters here). Aiming for the closest matches and you should be able to narrow down to older and hopefully cheaper options.

Final tip: Call stores and ask them if they have older models still in storage that are willing to sell you with full warrenty. Maybe you can get lucky and score something good.

Again, best of luck.

Why did you block me so sudden?