Time to replace 6yo laptop with Vista? 30 September 2015 at 3:30PM in Techie Stuff 8 replies 871 views

kuepper

My old laptop (COMPAQ CQ60-420SA) seems slow compared to my smartphone , would I really notice much difference with a new one. The speakers (altec lansing) on it are really good too and i'm a bit worried that i'd lose sound quality as I play a lot of music on it and new laptops ive looked at like acer, lenovo don't seem to mention much about speaker quality (brand etc) in their specs.

poppasmurf_bewdley

My son's new HP laptop has Beats Audio (whatever that is) but he says its great sound.

Mr_Robot_5

I've used Lenovo G50 it got good sound quality.

debitcardmayhem

Slow? Sound quality cf phone no contest"..Save money clean up lappy, remove rubbish and or dual boot with linux e.g. Mint

wongataa

No laptop will have great sound quality. There isn't the room for decent speakers. For better sound with any laptop use headphones or separate speakers.

Gloomendoom

wongataa wrote: »

No laptop will have great sound quality.

No, but some sound markedly better than others.

NiftyDigits

kuepper wrote: »

My old laptop (COMPAQ CQ60-420SA) seems slow compared to my smartphone , would I really notice much difference with a new one. The speakers (altec lansing) on it are really good too and i'm a bit worried that i'd lose sound quality as I play a lot of music on it and new laptops ive looked at like acer, lenovo don't seem to mention much about speaker quality (brand etc) in their specs.

Definitely back up your data and run a clean install without any bundled software. Laptop will still be good enough with those specs. If you want to make it more responsive than your Smartphone/Tablet., spend £35 upwards on an SSD drive.

I've sent you the latest firmware update for the laptop, along with instructions.

wongataa

Gloomendoom wrote: »

No, but some sound markedly better than others.

No doubt, but they will all sound not great and I wouldn't buy any laptop on a sound quality basis. If you want good sound quality from any laptop you will need headphones/external speakers.

windup

The op and others are clearly happy with their built-in laptop speaker sound, as am I. Some laptops come with a subwoofer, which makes a lot of difference.