I was ready to ask my dad for a gaming PC which I had been researching for the last few months but dad unexpectedly just brought this Dell XPS 13 9320 home.
It was even over the budget I had in mind. He said "look! I brought you this laptop, it's even better!".
It has 32 gigs of ram and 1tb and a 13th gen i7-1360p.
Now I don't know how to tell him that for that budget, you could get an extremely capable gaming PC or even A WHOLE GAMING SETUP!
Guys pls help me, I can't believe this just happened
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ask him to return it politely
If it has a Thunderbolt 4 port you could probably use an external GPU
Tell him that you appreciate it greatly, but it doesn’t do the things that you want to do with it, and the extra money he ended up spending would go to waste when you can get something much more suited to your needs for less. Don’t shit all over it, explain that you know it’s good, it’s just not the kind of good that you specifically need.
Emphasise that you appreciate the gesture, because dropping almost 2 grand on a pc is a big deal, and make sure he knows you know that, but at the same time explain what it lacks in terms of what you want out of a pc.
A good analogy is “you wouldn’t do the school run in a formula 1 car” or something like that. That way you’re actually complimenting the device, even though you’re making clear it doesn’t suit your needs.
First of all thank him for being a great dad
Second of all politely ask him if he can return it since it can’t handle the things which you want that device to do , you can also show him some benmarks as reference for the performance difference
At least they didn’t buy you a base MacBook with 8gb ram and 256gb SSD that 100gb is taken by the OS
It’s a nice little laptop though
Give him a big hug, thank him but explain kindly to him that you can get a lot more bang for your buck with this amount of money.