I thought chrome books were just one thing

I didn’t know there were all kinds of chromebooks

You can find free sports streams fairly easily. I've never had cable and been able to stream any sporting event I wanted live and in high quality. Would work on a tablet as well I imagine, as you'll only need a browser.

Really? It’s not all ****ed up and freezing all the time and all that?

If all you need is a browser why can’t you do it on your phone?

As a Chromebook owner I'd assume a tablet doesn't do so well with the streaming. At least a Chromebook doesn't have the best processing power and generally struggles to stream anything higher than 480p, and I'd assume a tablet would have the same problem.

Ah, I suppose the key is being hooked up to hdmi. Doesn't work so well over wifi, but it's still possible. It can be done on your phone it's just difficult to navigate through all the pop-ups and ****. I suppose on a tablet it would just be bigger screen = better.

I watched the last UFC event on my computer pretty seemlessly with a link from a friend. No idea how people find these sites, but theyre out there. Idk enough about cellphone crap to know why it wouldnt work on one, but i wouldnt want to watch sports on a tiny ass phone anyway.

I don’t mind the small screen

I mean you hold it closer to your face it seems clearer than hidef tv to me

Twitter and Discord for me. And I watched the last UFC event on my phone, was perfect and in HD.

Hawk, sometimes it buffers but that's the nature of streams, there are always multiple links though so if it does buffer you just put another one on. A tablet will be fine for sports.

Even that $149 jammer wolf linked to?

Spending $300 on a laptop, or even a tower isn't a good idea. You should wait until you can at least afford something in the $500+ range. Cheap computers/laptops will start out working normally (if at all, actually), but once you start browsing and loading it up with cookies/temp files you'll likely see performance drop significantly as your low-end system resources are depleted. Your experience will become 'click-and-wait' while it tries to catch up, and that can be frustrating at best, that is if it doesn't just lock up all together over time.

What I did with my last laptop was to buy a gaming PC, then I maxed out the RAM. I paid $800 for a Dell G3 (on sale at the time) and then another $120 for 32 Gigabytes of RAM (Random Access Memory) and installed it myself. I paid under $1k for a $2k comparable laptop because tech companies and resellers know the ignorance of the average consumer. RAM is what your system needs in order to function properly, and the more of it, the better. It's system memory and different from the memory on a hard drive, which stores files. Once RAM gets used up, it's gone until you reboot. It's the same with on-board graphics memory, but that's another avenue all together and you won't need to worry about that unless you start gaming. Companies will put out low-cost products with low-end RAM and then jack up the price on units with basically the same specs but more RAM, and the markup for just having more RAM preinstalled is ridiculous. It's capitalism in it's finest form.

As far as the difference between PC's/laptops/touchscreens/phones, and even Chromebooks and Mac's, they're all "Computers" using the same basic electronic tech, but with different operating systems (OS's) and graphical user interface's (GUI's). Different tools for different jobs. You can't run a native AutoCad application or 3DS Max etc. on a touch screen or a phone. (Yet lol) Just the same as you can't run some of the apps on a PC that you can on a phone or touch screen. Also, the difference between Mac and Windows is that the base Mac operating system (iOS) is closed architecture (Chromebooks too), whereas Windows (Win OS) is more open for customization through application programming interfaces (API's), so people can create their own programs more freely, like the Opensource community does so well. But that's also where the security differs. Having open architecture means more holes for the virus's to get in, but of course we all have tools and security patches for that.

I also quit recommending things to people, since that means I'm responsible every little thing that might go wrong with what ever it was I recommended.

At any rate, I hope that helps. Good luck in your search.

The might be the most densely information packed three paragraphs ever written. 99% of which I didn’t know.

In the foreseeable future I just don’t think a laptop or real “computer” is in the cards for this old boy.

I had no idea what RAM was. At least, I know what to look for if things look right at the end of the summer or whenever.

And that’s why I’m on the bottom of the pile

Dunno, didn't see it lolz.

Message if you want links for sport though (or join the Discord server and we can post them there).

It was just an amazon tablet, 10.5" screen

All i know is I've been using 300-400€ laptops for the past 10 years or so and they were and are absolutely up to the task of streaming and downloading stuff.
You guys are all just a bunch of overthinking nerds.

Grindr I solicited opinions

Haha auto correct changed your name - no take backs

Dollars are not Euros.

They're pretty close.

I hope you put no thought in that post, cause if you did then you're no better than the rest.

lol @ bolded

Just give him yours then. C'mon, help a brotha out.

So what?
My previous one cost below 300.
My current one cost around 350 I think, but I don't remember exactly. It's over four years old.
Still works great for the purposes that OH needs.
I assume newer laptops are more powerful and fast for even less money.

You'd think so, but they're just as expensive.

P.s. bought my current laptop at $350 about seven years ago and it's always been total garbage.

Sucks, if true.
Point still stands.
Girlfriend uses my old one which I bought for 250 (I think) 8-9 years ago or so.
And even that one is sufficient for streaming and downloading.

My computer is pretty good with streaming and downloading too. Running programs that stream and download though? Well that's simply asking a lot you have to give my computer time.

Not necessarily. Like if I type Apple it automatically capitalizes, predictive text suggests things like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

:laughing:

That's a $66.20 difference between your high end and my ding dong. Try not to think too much.

Maybe we had Merit wrong all this time.

That's what I'm finding in my laptop search. Geez, 3 and 4 hundred extra dollars for 6 to 12 more gbs of RAM? Ridiculous.

I'm looking for a laptop with very good resolution (doesn't have to be optimal, necessarily), a backlit keyboard, a DVD-RW drive, great sound and at least 16 gb. But your installation of 32 gbs of RAM sounds like a great idea.

Do laptops even have CD/DVD drives anymore? I think that might be extinct.

Few and far between (as they say) but they do. Man is this a hunt.

Think I'm going with the Lenovo ThinkPad W530. Refurb. Comes with 32 gb RAM. 1920 x 1080 Screen Res. Backlit Keyboard. Hard Drive: 500GB 7200rp Windows 10 Pro. Under $600. Course it is 8 years old tech but from what I've researched it's a beast of a machine. This may be it. Don't think I'll find better unless I upgrade myself.

I don't even download **** anymore cause streaming is so prevalent

You can get an ap on android called cinema hd which would stream almost anything you want to watch for free. You can cast that **** to your tv too. My phone cost 50 bucks and it does all that... Plus I could easily torrent **** if I wanted but can't be bothered. Dunno why it has to be a laptop but I'm sure you can find one for 300 that can do that ****. You could spend a bit more and build/but a decent pc for 3-4 hundred and then get a decent tv for like 200 to hook it up to.

Preciate it

I’ve solved all my problems just using my phone since then

Right now I don’t see any reason to buy a computer and I haven’t turned on my tv in months

What's the exact name of the app? I typed Cinema HD into play store but there are several.

If your phone is Android then I recommend Cinema HD. Anyone who pays for movies/music/etc is a sucker imo.

**** netflix **** hulu **** blu rays **** cds **** itunes **** paying for spotify

imo

the ones on play store are ****. go on your browser and type in cinema hd free download. there's a million variations of the same ap on the play store but half of them are lacking some of the content. i had to go on my browser to find the proper apk that has pretty much any and everything that i am looking for.

There are several results but this is the top one:

https://www.malavida.com/en/soft/cinema/android/

Is that the right one? If not could you post a link :o:

i think it is. I'm on my laptop right now so I usually do this from my phone. But it's worth a try. Try it out and if you have any issues let me know and I'll go on my phone and find the link I used... but i'm fairly sure that's the right one.