Am BR. Need new laptop.

DrMoosePLC

It's literally falling apart. The screen is hanging off, there are wires trailing out of it, the back is held together with cellotape and no the charger needs jiggling for about 1-5 mins to get it charge.

I use/need it for my business. I'm certain they'd permit be to get another. But will it have to be the cheapest smallest least powerful second hand thing I can find? It's almost a false economy if it's so rubbish I need a new one again shortly. I wonder whether false economy arguments hold any weight with the OR during period of banruptcy. I'd ideally like to spend about £300 on something that will be reasonable.

I've got 11 weeks left until I'm discharged so if you guys think they'll only sanction a 2 inch steam-powered notebook I'll probably try and hang on.

Thanks

dojoman

If you have the cash available to buy a laptop, you do not need permission from anyone to buy a new one.

HappyMJ

DrMoosePLC wrote: »

It's literally falling apart. The screen is hanging off, there are wires trailing out of it, the back is held together with cellotape and no the charger needs jiggling for about 1-5 mins to get it charge.

I use/need it for my business. I'm certain they'd permit be to get another. But will it have to be the cheapest smallest least powerful second hand thing I can find? It's almost a false economy if it's so rubbish I need a new one again shortly. I wonder whether false economy arguments hold any weight with the OR during period of banruptcy. I'd ideally like to spend about £300 on something that will be reasonable.

I've got 11 weeks left until I'm discharged so if you guys think they'll only sanction a 2 inch steam-powered notebook I'll probably try and hang on.

Thanks

Is £300 enough? I couldn't find anything reasonable in that price range. I recently bought one spent £500 on a new HP laptop discounted from £650 thinking it was a great deal but it was just not up to the job. Sold it within months for £400 and spent £600 on an MSI one and although it still has shortcomings it is much better. My reasoning to spend more upfront is it should last for years and last for a few upgrades.

You can spend whatever you feel you need to in BR. You need a laptop so buy one.

TheGardener

As dojoman says - if you have the cash - buy one, you don't need permission. However, if what you are asking is; will the OR will let you have an IPA break so you can buy one - all you can do is ask. The worst the OR can say is no...If your income depends on having decent computer access, then you never know - they might agree.

magpiecottage

Whilst I appreciate that you need a laptop that actually works, you do not say what your business is. I choose to run mine from a computer running 8GB ram and Windows 7 64bit.

However, if I had to, I could run it from my 8 year old netbook which runs on Linux with an Atom processor.

So I think you would need to explain to the OR why you needed a higher specification.

tigerfeet2006

magpiecottage wrote: »

Whilst I appreciate that you need a laptop that actually works, you do not say what your business is. I choose to run mine from a computer running 8GB ram and Windows 7 64bit.

However, if I had to, I could run it from my 8 year old netbook which runs on Linux with an Atom processor.

So I think you would need to explain to the OR why you needed a higher specification.

No he doesn't. If he has the money saved then he can buy what the hell he likes.

egrescrimp

Have you considered http://www.getonlineathome.org/default.aspx? Looks fairly reasonable, you could also pick up a decent laptop on eBay.

HappyMJ

egrescrimp wrote: »

Have you considered http://www.getonlineathome.org/default.aspx? Looks fairly reasonable, you could also pick up a decent laptop on eBay.

Looks reasonable? A laptop with Pentium Dual Core processor and 2GB RAM and a tiny 80GB HDD. That was the base specs of the laptop I scrapped just before buying the new one. Mine is sitting in the cupboard doing nothing. I value it at £10. Certainly not £169. Tell them they're dreaming.

egrescrimp

HappyMJ wrote: »

Looks reasonable? A laptop with Pentium Dual Core processor and 2GB RAM and a tiny 80GB HDD. That was the base specs of the laptop I scrapped just before buying the new one. Mine is sitting in the cupboard doing nothing. I value it at £10. Certainly not £169. Tell them they're dreaming.

It's an affordable way to get one with a warranty I realise they aren't high end but maybe ideal if the budget is limited

I'd personally check out shpock and eBay for bargains Shpock is likely to be cheaper as its local sales.

Maelwys

DrMoosePLC wrote: »

I'd ideally like to spend about £300 on something that will be reasonable.

There are a good number of deals around between £300-350 if that's your ballpark figure. Anything less than that and you'll be looking at Google Chromebooks rather than full "Windows" laptops.

Perhaps something like this - (Quad Core HP Probook 455, 4GB RAM with 500MB drive. AMD R5 M240 Graphics. £352 with £50 cashback)?