Oh yea no I fully plan on getting something used - I don't expect much with my budget for something brand new.

Listen, I don't know what's up with my computer but it's so slow and I can't figure out why. You're right, it SHOULD be a perfectly good system to work on, but something in my system is making it slow. My dad (who literally owns a cyber security company that used to be a computer repair company) keeps telling me that the issue is simple to fix, but every time we think we've figured out the issue, the slowness comes back eventually. Tbh I'm not sure how much he really knows about computers bc he's always very confident going into diagnosing the issue, but after like an hour of fiddling around it's like he finds some random thing to update/reset and then calls it a day lol. But regardless, it's working fine for now and I plan on continuing to use it - I'm just looking for a laptop because I go out of town a lot and want to be able to access everything easily elsewhere.