overnight delivery is the best delivery ... so yeah i need a Laptop for my holidays, and i had a ultra limited budget ... so in my line of sight i had countless Celeron Atom Pentium laptop and some i3 Haswell ... until i saw a Dell Vostro 3549 for just under 460$ you get what you pay for :
plastic frame
15.6" in 1366x768
single channel ram and 4gb (not a problem i just need to find in which box i did put my 8gb Kingston Fury So-dimm ...)
500gb 5400rpm (not a problem i have a spare 7200rpm aside ... just a lil Macrium and ~11minutes )
tho ... unless all other similarly priced notebook in his range (some are even higher priced
) instead of a pentium celeron or haswell i3 ... that one has a I5-5200U (well the lowest Broadwell i5 but still enough ) and a HD5500 is gladly welcome over a HD4400
also come with a Win 8.1 Pro recovery DVD and license but is downgraded to Win 7 Pro (with Win 10 upgrade due in time ofc) quite a welcome downgrade for me
update: i had a little aprehension about Macrium cloning ... well, dissipated ... the cloning from the WD blue 500GB 5400rpm to a Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm went all smoothly and works perfectly no reactivation needed whatsoever.
(and i used the free version ... around 11 minutes i didn't expect it to be that fast ...)
update 2: well it seems that it will be able to handle FFXIVHW at lowest settings (the Laptop barely got hot during the bench and also even on lowest settings DX9 that game looks gorgeous)
1st run standard Laptop settings 2nd run a bit more tweaking
also i could try steam stream for fun ... but i would not let my main rig run during my whole vacations, just to use that function