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Optionally, what would you have wanted to know before you bought one?

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Edit: Hey, thank you all very very much for your comments and suggestions, I really appreciate. I will most likely save up more and get the 1TB OLED model rather than the LCD model I was initially planning on. A couple of reasons for that, one, I am not good with electronics and I'd probably screw something up putting a new storage drive in. And two this thing will most likely be a permanent replacement for my old gaming laptop, which at this point is more than 10 years old, and seems to be on its last legs (I installed Linux on it, which was a struggle, but that is probably on me rather than Linux or the computer being at fault).

Anyway, I appreciate everyone's responses and thanks for helping a gal out!

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[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

With the case I just figure the one it comes with is the best case i've ever seen offered first party at no extra cost.

If you drop the thing though outside of said carrying case it's toast. it's way too big and heavy to survive any real fall. I'd be very surprised if even some kind of otterbox would work (but I admit i've never looked into it.)

[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay there's 2 meanings of cases.

There is one for travel - that it comes with.

But there's one that fits more like an otter box, an in-use case. The Spigen, Jsaux and KillSwitch all do that. Though I'm sure there are rip-offs all over Amazon by now for all 3.

With how big the thing is I really don't want more bulk on it. My brother in law had a deck until his girlfriend knocked it off a table and destroyed the shell...

My wife has already knocked mine off a couch and caused the case to un-clip in one spot, but it could have very easily been much worse.

I get wanting a case on the thing lol