New Laptop Opinion

choyaa

Hi,

I'm in the process of looking for a new laptop and I'm torn between the following two and would appreciate some advice. I just require it for the usual tasks online browsing and MS Office including Excel and Projects etc.

Laptop 1

Windows 7 Dell Latitude, E5420 Laptop Core I5 M2520 2.5 ghz HDMI Web Cam.

250 GB HDD.
DVD
8 GB Ram
Wi Fi
14.1" screen size

Price - £380.

Laptop 2

Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A Ultrabook Laptop Core i5 16GB Ram 128GB SSD WiFi

Screen size - 13.3"
Memory - 16 GB
Processor - 1.4 GHZ
HDD - 128 gb

Price - £270.

choyaa

choyaa wrote: »

Hi,

I'm in the process of looking for a new laptop and I'm torn between the following two and would appreciate some advice. I just require it for the usual tasks online browsing and MS Office including Excel and Projects etc.

Laptop 1

Windows 7 Dell Latitude, E5420 Laptop Core I5 M2520 2.5 ghz HDMI Web Cam.

250 GB HDD.
DVD
8 GB Ram
Wi Fi
14.1" screen size

Price - £380.

Laptop 2

Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A Ultrabook Laptop Core i5 16GB Ram 128GB SSD WiFi

Screen size - 13.3"
Memory - 16 GB
Processor - 1.4 GHZ
HDD - 128 gb

Price - £270.

Any opinions?

Fightsback

These are quite old models and the prices you are paying for second hand models is high, especially the dell. Try shopping around a bit more.

[Deleted User]

Where do you intend to use it?

If you plan to travel with it a lot, I'd go for small and light.

For home use, you can pick up a cheap flat screen monitor from somewhere like Cash Converter or Cash Generator.

I've got a 10.1" Medion Akoya, which travels everywhere with me.

It's very light (about 1.3Kg), has good battery life, and came with a full version of MS Office 2013.

Cost was ~ £200.

J_B

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I've got a 10.1" Medion Akoya, which travels everywhere with me.
It's very light (about 1.3Kg), has good battery life, and came with a full version of MS Office 2013.

A quick Google took me to the Amazon site that said a) that it was 2.3Kg and b) it had only 1.4 stars out of 5!

RobTang

J_B wrote: »

A quick Google took me to the Amazon site that said a) that it was 2.3Kg and b) it had only 1.4 stars out of 5!

There is no way a 10" laptop is 2.3kg, although it could be the sku weight.
My 15" MacBook is only 2kg and that all metal case...


I would go with the Series 9 its a nice machine, even though its getting a bit old now.

[Deleted User]

RobTang wrote: »

There is no way a 10" laptop is 2.3kg

Agreed. I think it must be a typo.

As for the one star, I totally disagree. I find it excellent.

All I've done to it, is upgrade the RAM to 4GB, at a cost of about £12.

ETA: If you look to the right off the Amazon page, it says:-

Shipping Weight 2.3Kg.

prowla

If you are looking at a small screen one, see if you can try one out first; the applications use a lot of area with ribbons and suchlike, so you may find that the amount of space left for your data may be insufficient. In an ideal world, everything should be at least 1080p, IMHO.

choyaa

Presently my model is the Samsung R540, it got damaged and is the only reason I'm replacing it, the same or better would be ideal.

teddysmum

I, too like Medions, though my present one is a 17". They do have lots of on site offers on smaller screens, though.