Battery is almost always under the trackpad area so probably not.
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Latitude 5000 is better built than a Vostro 3000. The Vostro has better specs and will have faster GPU but less durable. That’s the trade off.
Do you need the GPU? CPUs are the same and should perform similarly.
Just so you know, the 7730U is just a rebranded Zen 3 CPU. Its almost identical to the older 5825U. On that note, you can get a refurbished ProBook 445 G9 from HP for $500 with the 5825U. The SSD is small, but easy to upgrade. But the display is also worse than the one you listed, which probably matters to you as a digital artist…but hey maybe you use an external monitor anyways…
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-probook-445-14-inch-g9-notebook-pc-p-7d744u8r-aba-1
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_7_7730u-vs-amd_ryzen_7_5825u
I just thought I would point that out.
Not sure if this will work but it helped be solve some hardware issues in the past on my IdeaPad. Shut down the laptop. Hold the power button down for 60s. Then turn the laptop back on.
1·10 months agoI usually leave about 100GB free. But about 250 GB is just games. So I uninstall and reinstall them as needed to make space for other things.
Things I would consider good enough on a laptop like that. My entire job, MS office, web browsing, document reading and editing, zoom calls, and other basic office tasks. Also some light photo editing and 1080p video editing. As for gaming, I would play any game up to arouns 2010-2015, like Skyrim would run fine, maybe FO4. As for newer games general esports stuff will be fine, Fortnite, Apex, Overwatch, Rocket League, R6S, LoL, that kind of stuff is no problem. CoD and Tarkov probably not on an MX450. With the easier games, you could even dabble in some Twitch streaming with the Intel iGPU’s encoders.
All in all, you’ll have plenty of options. You wont be able to do and play everything. Like CP2077 and Starfield wont run on that. But the list of games and apps that will run is sufficient.
Used ThinkPad? Refurbished T480 sounds like a perfect match for you.