Please Help! Need Laptop advice

stilltheone

The ACER in post #6 for £250 has more than adequate specification for Photoshop and Office.

CPU benchmark of 1518 together with 3GB RAM and an adequate graphics output(Intel® HD Graphics with 128 MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 10).

Link here.

Don't know anything about the build quality and/or reliability.

CoolHotCold

stilltheone wrote: »

The ACER in post #6 for £250 has more than adequate specification for Photoshop and Office.

CPU benchmark of 1518 together with 3GB RAM and an adequate graphics output(Intel® HD Graphics with 128 MB of dedicated system memory, supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 10).

Link here.

Don't know anything about the build quality and/or reliability.

Sorry never checked that, just checked the links provided. At 250 I probably would but its old tech but good price

stilltheone

CoolHotCold wrote: »

Sorry never checked that, just checked the links provided.

It's MarkBargain's fault for not providing you with a link.

CoolHotCold

stilltheone wrote: »

It's MarkBargain's fault for not providing you with a link.

Why thank you. :P

Anyway I had a acer Travelmate (a business system) and it was built like a thinkpad, the Aspire series is more akin to consumer HP's

silentkiller

My dell Inspiron 1500 laptop was about 369 and it was really good for internet and photoshop etc. It's not so good now I have loaded it full of games etc but if you dont do that, they are good laptops.

stilltheone

silentkiller wrote: »

My dell Inspiron 1500 laptop was about 369 and it was really good for internet and photoshop etc. It's not so good now I have loaded it full of games etc but if you dont do that, they are good laptops.

Just clean it up and perhaps put some more RAM inside.
closed's speciality is helping to get rid of unnecessary processes that slow you computing experience.
Perhaps £20 on RAM spent will make a difference.

What is the current spec?

amievox

Hey, thank you for all your help.

I'm not sure about keeping my dell because it's a mini 910 and very small. Also the hard drive just died and i lost everything so I'm a bit worried as to why!

I'm still unsure about what to get but i did think £300 was sufficient to get something that will suit me.

The acer looks good so I'm going to read in to that one a bit more, thanx

I'll have a good look and keep you posted. Any more advice or recommended laptops would be brilliant, thanx

stilltheone

amievox wrote: »

Hey, thank you for all your help.

I'm not sure about keeping my dell because it's a mini 910 and very small. Also the hard drive just died and i lost everything so I'm a bit worried as to why!

I'm still unsure about what to get but i did think £300 was sufficient to get something that will suit me.

The acer looks good so I'm going to read in to that one a bit more, thanx

I'll have a good look and keep you posted. Any more advice or recommended laptops would be brilliant, thanx

Oh...if it's one of those with a SSD of around 8GB, anything would be an improvement on that.

If you are sure the solid state drive is at fault, they are easy to replace. This 16GB module is £30.

How much RAM is installed? 512MB or 1GB?
What makes you think that the drive is at fault?

macman

Any hard drive can die, at any time. That's why you need to back up, whatever the age of the machine.