Pandemic social distancing diary thread

[Vlantis]

My laptop and only means of entertainment and outside communication has finally died.

I made a thread asking for advice for a new one. Any help would be appreciated.

Looking for a cheap laptop for making music

After a year of fighting it and two repairs, my laptop is truly dead. It serves as my entertainment center, I don’t own cable nor do I do apps and streaming and all that stuff. I spent a lot of money on this thing back in the day, but that was because it was a gaming rig, but I no longer care about that. This never had much of an audio card, but I managed to make it work. Honestly, nothing I’ve ever used had much power in the music department. I’d like to mail order something and not shop a…