New laptop

Timbo

Member
Location
Gods County
Something current gen i5 at least, 8gb ram and an sdd up to your budget. £500 area would buy a good machine.

Nothing with Compaq label, or own brand pcworld / Currys rubbish. Do not pay for additional bloatware / antivirus . Spend afew ££ on external backup drive or cloud based
 

jondear

Member
Location
Devon
If you want a quality build look at pcspecialist. You can spec you own build just like @Timbo says and no additional rubbish usually a good price.

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Just ordered a Hp laptop from a pc doctor chap who's really good .He will set it up and transfer from old one .I wanted to avoid going to PC world after all the bad reports I've heard! Intermediate level£400 .
 

JeepJeep

Member
Trade
Also bought a couple of these for clients, at £499 and £479. Cheaper still now. They're a fast well made machine imho.

I've been quite impressed upto now... Can't quite get the display how I like it and feels not as well built as the Toshiba but it went straight to work and does what's required.
 
First question you ask when buying a new laptop is:

Does it have a solid state drive?

If not, ignore it. It's trash and will eventually run like one, too.

Overclockers UK will sort you out. DO not buy the first thing with a screen you find in Tesco or Argos.

If it is just for browsing or emails a tablet (anything you like, even chrome based Samsung etc) may suffice.

You get a heap of free cloud storage by buying MS Office these days.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
First question you ask when buying a new laptop is:

Does it have a solid state drive?

If not, ignore it. It's trash and will eventually run like one, too.

Overclockers UK will sort you out. DO not buy the first thing with a screen you find in Tesco or Argos.

If it is just for browsing or emails a tablet (anything you like, even chrome based Samsung etc) may suffice.

You get a heap of free cloud storage by buying MS Office these days.
samsung tablet is very nice thing,,quicker and easy tp use but screen size could be the issue 17 inch laptop much better imo
 
samsung tablet is very nice thing,,quicker and easy tp use but screen size could be the issue 17 inch laptop much better imo

The capabilities of tablets are growing every day, they are cheaper and pretty powerful these days and you can get some pretty big tablets as well. Throw in the ability too write on them with a stylus and they really suit some people. All depends on what you want to do with them. I can't stand laptops as I just can't type or use a trackpad, at least compared to a PC.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
The capabilities of tablets are growing every day, they are cheaper and pretty powerful these days and you can get some pretty big tablets as well. Throw in the ability too write on them with a stylus and they really suit some people. All depends on what you want to do with them. I can't stand laptops as I just can't type or use a trackpad, at least compared to a PC.
Could use a mouse? but laptop will be in trouble if one gets crumbs on the keyboard :whistle: on a pc you can easily just replace it
 

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
The capabilities of tablets are growing every day, they are cheaper and pretty powerful these days and you can get some pretty big tablets as well. Throw in the ability too write on them with a stylus and they really suit some people. All depends on what you want to do with them. I can't stand laptops as I just can't type or use a trackpad, at least compared to a PC.

Bg junior has just bought a iPad for uni lectures. Has a Bluetooth keyboard it’s nice and portable. Saves everything to his iCloud account which syncs with his desktop. Much better than lugging his old laptop around.

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Bg junior has just bought a iPad for uni lectures. Has a Bluetooth keyboard it’s nice and portable. Saves everything to his iCloud account which syncs with his desktop. Much better than lugging his old laptop around.

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I just can't do the ipad thing for lectures, I have tried, I would love to be able to write notes with just a stylus but I can't. Does he find the battery life is enough for a full day of lectures???
 

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
I just can't do the ipad thing for lectures, I have tried, I would love to be able to write notes with just a stylus but I can't. Does he find the battery life is enough for a full day of lectures???

One of my sons best moves at school was doing a few touch typing lessons so he uses the key board. Not had any complaints about battery life but he is not having full days of lectures these days.

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Riverblue

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Ceredigion
Some excellent good brand value machines there. i5, SSD, 8gb ram etc.

Have no clue about computers, except that Dell is a good company and the prices looked good value to me. The option of 3 years warranty showed to me that the company trusted their products.
 

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