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<blockquote data-quote="Timbo" data-source="post: 7109254" data-attributes="member: 772"><p>A good number of people find a laptop does the job for what they want to do. I dont.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I have a 12 inch laptop for "casual sofa browsing" and in the office a desktop (actually 2) for proper business use - both with dual 24" monitors where you can get plenty going on and see it all easily;- often have many apps open and many tabs going on as well as email on the other screen.</p><p></p><p>A mid range i5 CPU, , 8gb ram at least , with a SSD primary drive and a secondary storage hard disk drive would be the bare minimum to consider. Allow for a copy of MS Office (£130) One drive or some form of cloud backup and two decent sized monitors. You will be doing more and more farming revolving around the computer, and if you have children keep them off it.</p><p></p><p>With a desktop you are more likely to keep the business in the office and not scattered throughout the house.</p><p></p><p>£600 should get you all the above very easily and don't forget you can both depreciate office expenses and reclaim the VAT . Do not go to Currys or the like and buy any of their junk laden heaps.-</p><p></p><p>There are also many resellers of 2nd user refurbed almost-current spec machines out their who sell on ex corporate Lenovo's, Dells, HP's etc at bloody good value. I like ITzoo for instance.</p><p></p><p>Oh yeah, avoid integrated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timbo, post: 7109254, member: 772"] A good number of people find a laptop does the job for what they want to do. I dont. Personally, I have a 12 inch laptop for "casual sofa browsing" and in the office a desktop (actually 2) for proper business use - both with dual 24" monitors where you can get plenty going on and see it all easily;- often have many apps open and many tabs going on as well as email on the other screen. A mid range i5 CPU, , 8gb ram at least , with a SSD primary drive and a secondary storage hard disk drive would be the bare minimum to consider. Allow for a copy of MS Office (£130) One drive or some form of cloud backup and two decent sized monitors. You will be doing more and more farming revolving around the computer, and if you have children keep them off it. With a desktop you are more likely to keep the business in the office and not scattered throughout the house. £600 should get you all the above very easily and don't forget you can both depreciate office expenses and reclaim the VAT . Do not go to Currys or the like and buy any of their junk laden heaps.- There are also many resellers of 2nd user refurbed almost-current spec machines out their who sell on ex corporate Lenovo's, Dells, HP's etc at bloody good value. I like ITzoo for instance. Oh yeah, avoid integrated. [/QUOTE]
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