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Show the make and model of the laptop you wish to buy.
I can pretty much guarantee that if this laptop is some 17 inch desktop replacement with short battery life ,they will not recommend this for carrying to school .
So I'll just cut to the chase, 16, have a job, break honours in school, but have a bit of a communication gap between my father and myself. I'm buying a new "gaming" laptop, and after loads of research I've come to a product at $1500 CAN that I'm truly happy with. The laptop would mostly be used for school, games, programming, photo editing, and CAD work. The only problem is my dad, he doesn't think I should spend so much on one thing. I've told him why including a good graphics card (960m, good for what I'm using it for) an SSD, 16gb DDR4 RAM, a good processor and the lot. My dad isn't exactly the understanding nor the type to understand technology. Just wondering if anyone can share knowledge on how to convince him that I know what I'm doing and this is a good investment.

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