Laptop Under £200

motorguy

DavidP24 wrote: »

I share my experience, I do not pay £200 I pay £50 and perhaps another £50 to beef it up.

+1


The last two I bought - two D620s - cost me £26 each delivered. One had a worn keyboard so the guy refunded me the £9 it cost me for a new one.


New batteries were £11 each, new genuine PSUs were £14 each. I got a 4GB ram kit off ebay for something like £9 delivered.


I'd have got one sitting mint with all that done for a few £s more but I like doing the bits and pieces myself.

motorguy

sillygoose wrote: »

I presume the 'Scratch and Dent' on the selection page means it has undefined scratches and dents? hmm doesn't sound attractive, it could turn up looking like a car crash?

You're right - scratch and dent could mean anything from a mild scuff to a significant scratch.


I only look for refurbed or cancelled order stuff on there.

bsod

motorguy wrote: »

Whilst my trusty old laptop is doing its job just fine its getting rather long in the tooth, and as i travel a lot with my job and find myself in hotels on weeknights i'm pondering a decent spec laptop on which i can play games.

I've an Alienware 13 laptop with a 1.0 TB HDD

I've, as I said a 10 year D620 and its going strong - and it does exactly the same job for me as my new HP Envy i7..

Your ludicrous tiresome arguments are all over the place. Are you one of these sheep who has to go with the herd when something new comes out?

OP has moved on, and doesn't seem to be in the market for a d620, nighty night.

motorguy

bsod wrote: »

Your ludicrous tiresome arguments are all over the place. Are you one of these sheep who has to go with the herd when something new comes out?

OP has moved on, and doesn't seem to be in the market for a d620, nighty night.

It DOES do exactly the same job for me as my hp envy. I use both for excel spreadsheets for my accounts and expenses, word docs, surfing, watching the odd movie on, sending and receiving emails on, etc.

I plan on having the envy for years to come and it's through my company so no big cost to me.

No one suggested the op got a d620, it was merely an example of how a ten year old business laptop is still going strong.

The op was given options and will no doubt chose what's best for their circumstances

Doesn't make you not wrong though...:rotfl:

Fightsback

motorguy wrote: »

I've, as I said a 10 year D620 and its going strong - and it does exactly the same job for me as my new HP Envy i7..

So why did you buy a nice new shiny i7 envy then ?

motorguy

Fightsback wrote: »

So why did you buy a nice new shiny i7 envy then ?

Company laptop. And I quite fancied the look of it. Seemed a good balance of quality, spec and features for the price.

I am not adverse to buying something new, quality and high spec (in anything I buy actually), however £200 doesn't buy you that in a laptop. So at that budget point I'd buy a good quality used business machine.

If I only had the d620 then you would be saying my opinion is a subjective one, however having spent in the last two years on various laptops costing between £26 and £1,000 I can give an objective view of what I would do ( and have done) at various price points.

This doesn't seem complicated. Sorry if you are struggling with it

Fightsback

motorguy wrote: »

This doesn't seem complicated. Sorry if you are struggling with it

So on the one hand you are advocating a piece of ancient carp yet possessing a modern laptop which you have for all the reasons why wouldn't want to rely solely on the ancient piece of carp.

I don't see anything complicated, just contradictory and hypocritical

To put it simply you don't mind old carp to fiddle around with but don't like to use it on a daily basis.

I'd recommend to the OP to get the latest generation i3 they can afford for £200 second hand or refurb, an SSD can be added later when funds allow otherwise you'll be stuck with an ancient piece of C2D carp. You can buy an sandybridge i3 for less than £100.

motorguy

Fightsback wrote: »

So on the one hand you are advocating a piece of ancient carp yet possessing a modern laptop which you have for all the reasons why wouldn't want to rely solely on the ancient piece of carp.

Nope. I work away from home all week on customer site, so i keep the Dell D620 over here as its one less thing to cart home every weekend.

Fightsback wrote: »

I don't see anything complicated, just contradictory and hypocritical

You just like to argue on the internet dont you?

Fightsback wrote: »

To put it simply you don't mind old carp to fiddle around with but but don't like to use it on a daily basis.

Using the D620 as we speak. I use it more than the HP Envy as I only use it at the weekends.

Fightsback wrote: »

I'd recommend to the OP to get the latest generation i3 they can afford for £200 second hand or refurb, an SSD can be added later when funds allow otherwise you'll be stuck with an ancient piece of C2D carp. You can buy an sandybridge i3 for less than £100.

Bingo! Well done that man! :beer:

Have a read at my first post on this thread - Post number 13 - which pretty much said that verbatim.

I have only used the D620 as a point of reference as to how even very old laptops are usable, however my last sentence in that post said get a more modern variant - and set a bit aside for an SSD drive because it makes a big difference.

At £200 a brand new laptop is going to be built down to a price and be cheap plastics with poor durability and compromised components. Hence, like you, i'd strongly recommend a good, used machine - the best of i3, i5, or i7 at that price point and at the time they need it (next year)

Do you not feel a bit stupid now for trying to argue with someone who has the same viewpoint as you? :rotfl:

Rather than being angry on the internet, have you thought of getting out more? A hobby perhaps?

Fightsback

motorguy wrote: »

Nope. I work away..

So why babble on about old carp, more motor mouth than motorguy. Be succinct and to the point so one doest have to wade through acres of irrelevancy in the slight hope that something useful may be found.

motorguy

Fightsback wrote: »

So why babble on about old carp, more motor mouth than motorguy.

I didnt. There was a debate about the merits / disadvantages / risks of buying a used business machine and some of us cited examples of still running very old laptops, thus more reinforced the point that more recent newer ex business machines - like you and i both suggested - would make a good buy. I think they call it "speaking from experience"

Try to keep up at the back.

Its a sad state of affairs when you have to result to name calling btw.

You could always just admit you were wrong and apologise?