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I bought a new laptop a few months ago that does not do 5GHz. It's a Dell Inspiron 3195, with a Qualcomm Atheros 9565 wireless card. The laptop is still available for purchase. When I purchased it it was on sale for $200. (not sure if the link is my exact model, but all the specs are the same, and this particular model does say 2.4GHz with no mention of 5GHz)

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/2-in-1-laptops/inspiron-11-3...

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Oh wow they're still selling 1366x768 screens in the year 2020.

What's wrong with that? I happen to prefer a "lower" resolution on a laptop (and by "lower" I mean the same pixel density as my IPS monitor, which is 1920x1200). Unless I use an operating system that has completely solved the problem of GUI scaling, I don't see the benefit of higher pixel densities, only constant issues with incompatible applications.

It's perfectly usable. (I also have an XPS13 with a 3200x1800 screen) Setting up the infinality font renderer basically negates the downsides of a low resolution screen.

TBH, in the future I'll preferentially opt for ~96 DPI when available. The 3200x1800 on my other system is completely overkill, and doesn't play particularly nice with a lot of websites or Steam.

It's a perfectly adequate screen size for most things.

The only place I run into trouble is if I try to do anything work-related on this laptop because our web design team designed our web app on large, high-density displays.

Every website I actually use at home works perfectly fine.

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