Urgent laptop needed please

taney

Hi,

Im not a techie person at all so might sound bit daft.

Im urgently looking for a laptop,budget £1000.I do an online business so its like a lifeline for me.

PC world suggesting mac pro with retina display 13"inch screen plus office licence for 1yr and antivirus for 3yrs with unlimited date retrieval from crashed machine for £1200.Do you think its a good deal?

Im looking at apple products preferably but any suggestions for a good reliable laptop preferably froma store so i can get warranty.

I"ll really really appreciate any suggestions.

Need to buy it over the weekend

jaydeeuk1

Any particular reason you want apple?

taney

i had dell before,always had some probem after 6months of use

NiftyDigits

taney wrote: »

Hi,

Im not a techie person at all so might sound bit daft.

Im urgently looking for a laptop,budget £1000.I do an online business so its like a lifeline for me.

PC world suggesting mac pro with retina display 13"inch screen plus office licence for 1yr and antivirus for 3yrs with unlimited date retrieval from crashed machine for £1200.Do you think its a good deal?

Im looking at apple products preferably but any suggestions for a good reliable laptop preferably froma store so i can get warranty.

I"ll really really appreciate any suggestions.

Need to buy it over the weekend

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I might be doing them a disservice, but I'm sure they won't be doing anything that you couldn't do yourself.
I can't see them repairing and restoring a 'dead' hard drive to get your data back.

You certainly don't need to buy from a high street store in order to get a warranty. What are you thinking?

taney

Problem is i have spent 1000s of pounds in last 2-3years buying online,refurbished and 2nd hand...now im just fed up...all i need is a decent laptop with support as i dont know even basic stuff like installing windowsetc

NiftyDigits

taney wrote: »

Problem is i have spent 1000s of pounds in last 2-3years buying online,refurbished and 2nd hand...now im just fed up...all i need is a decent laptop with support as i dont know even basic stuff like installing windowsetc

What is wrong with your current machine?

teffers

Apple are great, I have a Macbook Air myself, but if you're used to Windows machines (and in your circumstances) I would stay with that.

I work in an organisation that has about 1500 UK users and I'm personally responsible for around 650 of them, they all have Dell laptops and desktops and the failure rate is extremely low.

In your circumstance I would buy online, from Dell with enhanced next day business support. You have an issue, they turn up the next day to fix it.

taney

my current one just crashed while working n now not starting.

Is there any specific dell laptop which you would recommend then plz?

NiftyDigits

taney wrote: »

my current one just crashed while working n now not starting.

Is there any specific dell laptop which you would recommend then plz?

Brand name and full model number?

Shall I assume that you don't back up your data as a matter of course?

20aday

taney wrote: »

Hi,

Im not a techie person at all so might sound bit daft.

Im urgently looking for a laptop,budget £1000.I do an online business so its like a lifeline for me.

PC world suggesting mac pro with retina display 13"inch screen plus office licence for 1yr and antivirus for 3yrs with unlimited date retrieval from crashed machine for £1200.Do you think its a good deal?

Im looking at apple products preferably but any suggestions for a good reliable laptop preferably froma store so i can get warranty.

I"ll really really appreciate any suggestions.

Need to buy it over the weekend

In terms of Office software there's also OpenOffice which is free and compatible with MS Office.

If you do go ahead and buy your MacBook Pro (the non-Retina version is £899 by the way...) you'll also get Pages, Numbers and Keynote (Apple's Office Suite) included free of charge. This is also compatible with MS Office.

For data backup you could use iCloud, DropBox, Box, Google Drive or OneDrive.

And I personally use AVG Antivirus myself which is also free... my iMac is three years old and it doesn't impact on performance whatsoever.

Gloomendoom

taney wrote: »

i had dell before,always had some probem after 6months of use

You must be really unlucky.