Which laptop?

CORK

CORK

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East Cork, Ireland
I would like to buy a laptop for home use. It won’t be needed to run a space station but needs a big screen, good speed, ability to connect wirelessly to printer.

Personally don’t like HP stuff.

Any suggestions? Dell have been good to me over the years.
 
tepapa

tepapa

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Livestock Farmer
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North Wales
I'm in the same boat.
I'd like to know who are the good specialist companies who will custom build a laptop without all the guff that comes as standard. A good quick machine but not flash.
 
JeepJeep

JeepJeep

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Trade
I've a 14month old HP here... Does the Job brilliantly but the build quality is utter sh!t was bought in a bit of hurry with next day delivery.

It's been apart for things like mouse pad , hinges and chassis repair no less than 12 times under warranty in that time... I go back to the 10 year old Toshiba when I cant work with it.

I'm ready to contact them again due to a dodgy mousepad but it works and the ballache involved with them is putting me off.. they'll turn up with wrong parts , half the parts or send the parts to the wrong end of the country and sat around waiting pisses me off.

Lenovo next when the HP warranty expires.
 
CORK

CORK

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Location
East Cork, Ireland
Timbo said:
Nice spec, plnety of £££ for what it is though. Thought you wanted a big screen? 15.6" would be standard size, and tiny when alot of us are on 22/24" monitors or three...
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Well it’s a laptop that I wanted - not a 3 screen setup that you describe.

Looking at the choice of laptops, this screen size would be larger than most I’ve seen - therefore it’s relatively big to my mind. I think the largest I saw was 17” or so (and this was above my budget for the brand and spec I wanted).
I preferred Dell based on previous experience.

A few bob more for the Dell doesn’t come to much when the VAT is claimed and the remainder entered as a business cost (which it is in this case).

Just my view but I’m no IT expert.
 
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Jim B

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MacBook Pro here. 7 years old and still going strong and performs well!

Every Windows based laptop I’ve owned in the past has lasted probably half that time before it’s ground to a halt?
 

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