Good second hand/ refurb laptop ? around £300 budget

fatpiggy

I was going to suggest going to the website of Tieronline. I have bought a camera and much later, a workbook from them. Both have never given me any problems, both were bargains and the company prides itself on superb customer service. I highly recommend them (and no, I don't work for them!)

londonTiger

make sure you get 8GB ram.

debitcardmayhem

londonTiger wrote: »

make sure you get 8GB ram.

I have to ask why ? it's a Chromebook

Samsonite1

I would say, if you are going to spend £300, get a brand new laptop. There are very good ones for that price. At that price point, I would actually go for an AMD processor because their onboard GPU is much better than Intel's at that price point. £300 will get you a relative beast.

On the other hand, I do not condone paying on credit generally, so if you can afford something else much cheaper that suits your needs, then go for that.

NiftyDigits

Seems something not quite right on this thread...

kobracai

Samsonite1 wrote: »

I would say, if you are going to spend £300, get a brand new laptop. There are very good ones for that price. At that price point, I would actually go for an AMD processor because their onboard GPU is much better than Intel's at that price point. £300 will get you a relative beast.

On the other hand, I do not condone paying on credit generally, so if you can afford something else much cheaper that suits your needs, then go for that.

cheers, anyone seller / brand you would specifically recommend?

kobracai

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Seems something not quite right on this thread...

what do you mean? you mean from my posts? I know diddly squat when it comes to tech, please bear with me

btw I received the chromebook and sent it back this morning already, not what I was looking for, no CD rom drive and the keyboard was too different to what I was used to... back to square one LOL

Samsonite1

kobracai wrote: »

cheers, anyone seller / brand you would specifically recommend?

When it comes to sellers, just go for a reputable company and perhaps you will find one of the preferred laptops at a better price at a particular store. I personally tend to use Amazon (massive choice) or Ebuyer (long time customer and good prices generally).

I have had my hands on many a laptop over the past 15 years through work and also various personal ones and the brands that have stood out for various reasons have been:

• Toshiba - particularly the Satellite series - had 3 since 2002 and they have all been good performers and well-built. I have a 2009 model still (as a spare) and it still works and cost £299 in 2009! I took this one to Italy when I lived there and brought it back, so it travelled well.
• HP - Usually you get a good spec and HP make pretty decent machines.
• Lenovo - Always loved the IBM laptops which Lenovo took over. They still seem decent although I have only had one of these.
• Asus - some pretty good laptop from these guys. My current work laptop (1 year old) is an Asus and it is really well made, looks nice and has some decent features like Bang & Olufsen sound.

Here are some example laptops from these brands:

ASUS X555LA
£289 Amazon
(Intel Core i3-4005U 1.7 GHz Processor, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD, Windows 10)

Lenovo Essential B50-80 Laptop
£259 Ebuyer - has an SSD drive, so should feel pretty quick.
(Intel Core i3-5005U 2GHz, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows 10 Home)

HP 350 G2 Laptop
£330 (£300 after cashback) Ebuyer
(Intel Core i5-5200U 2.2 GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows 8.1 + Free upgrade to Windows 10)

HP Pavillion 15-p264na Laptop
£309 Ebuyer - this is my pick with a good CPU and 8GB RAM, should last a while
(AMD Quad-Core A10-4655M APU 2GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, AMD Radeon HD 7620G, Windows 8.1 - Free upgrade to Windows 10)

HP 455 Quad Core Laptop
£300 Ebuyer - does not come with Windows if that is what you want.
(AMD A10 7300 Quad core Accelerated Processor, with AMD Radeon™ Graphics. 8GB RAM , 1TB HDD, Ubuntu 12.04)

Toshiba Satellite C55-C-11G
£300 Amazon
(Intel Core i3-4005U, 4 GB RAM, 750 GB HDD, Intel HD Graphics 4400)

debitcardmayhem

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Seems something not quite right on this thread...

Why do you say that ND??? :cool:

kobracai wrote: »

Thank you everyone for the advice, I ultimately bought this this morning

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-CB-571-15-6-Inch-Intel-1-5GHz-2GB-32GB-Chromebook-White-/331706810846?hash=item4d3b4441de:g:vlsAAOSwL7VWtBVn

£169 paid now, this weekend will be a bit tight but it's one debt less !!

But of course it's now gone back

Fortyfoot

I have read the post on here and found them interesting. I have just returned the following, it was very poor.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331706805205

I am now looking at the following which seems better having read the previous posts. Any good or bad comments please.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hewlett-Packard-15-AB088NA-15-6-Inch-AMD-2-2GHz-8GB-1TB-Pavilion-Laptop-Purple-/331692937291

Thanks,

Fortyfoot