Laptop Under £200

motorguy

warehouse wrote: »

Well done you two sad **** wavers. Can you leave the grown ups to get on with the thread please?

Yeah i'm willy waving about a 10 year old laptop and some HP Envy thats worth half of what i gave for it at the start of the year at best.

Living the dream!

:rolleyes:

henm2

Lenovo Thinkpads are I believe a good option. Strong sturdy reliable. I bought from this ebay shop 18 months ago a refurbished Thinkpad X200 and it is great. They now have a X201 Thinkpad for £120. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FAST-WINDOWS-7-LENOVO-X201-LAPTOP-Core-i5-2-4GHz-CHEAP-4GB-RAM-Warranty-WIRELESS-/231071084000?hash=item35cce8ede0:g:dJoAAOSwwbdWQ1yv

motorguy

henm2 wrote: »

Lenovo Thinkpads are I believe a good option. Strong sturdy reliable. I bought from this ebay shop 18 months ago a refurbished Thinkpad X200 and it is great. They now have a X201 Thinkpad for £120. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FAST-WINDOWS-7-LENOVO-X201-LAPTOP-Core-i5-2-4GHz-CHEAP-4GB-RAM-Warranty-WIRELESS-/231071084000?hash=item35cce8ede0:g:dJoAAOSwwbdWQ1yv

Good call! And some headroom in the price for sticking in an SSD :beer:

Fightsback

motorguy wrote: »

Good call! And some headroom in the price for sticking in an SSD :beer:

Not so good call, OP asked for a 14inch screen and not 12 inches, do your homework, amateur.

Terry98 wrote: »

I need to source a laptop for a student going to Uni next year.

Ideally it will need Win7 or higher, SSD, 4GB RAM and a 14" screen. .

motorguy

Fightsback wrote: »

Not so good call, OP asked for a 14inch screen and not 12 inches, do your homework, amateur.

Yay!

You finally won an argument on the internet!

Go you!

Go downstairs and tell your mum - she'll be so proud!

:beer:

motorguy

Oops - i take that back - they said "ideally", not that it was an essential...

Terry98 wrote:

Ideally it will need Win7 or higher, SSD, 4GB RAM and a 14" screen.

sillygoose

Upgrading and replacing keyboards etc I could do but I just don't have the time to faff about..

My work laptop was upgraded with SSD and it made ziltch real life difference... yes Word opens in 2.1 seconds now instead of 3.4 or whatever but so what? 90% of what I do is online and our company portals still dish out data as and when they feel like it so any speed gain 'my end' is largely invisible. Our company abandoned the upgrade rollout.

Anyway.. All I want is 15.6" 4GB RAM 120GB+ Hard drive Intel I3+ laptop in pristine condition, no dents, minimal scuffs, no scratches no sign of wear on the trackpad or donut crumbs in the keyboard (a UK keyboard not Polish etc) pref. installed with some variant of Windows 7 or a bit cheaper and drivers available so I can do my own install.

The crux of the problem is it either means trawling every Cashconverters for miles to see in person or ordering online and opening the box to either big disappointment or joy. The trouble then is most descriptions are sufficiently vague it will be a nightmare trying to argue what is acceptable. Hassle.

motorguy

sillygoose wrote: »

Upgrading and replacing keyboards etc I could do but I just don't have the time to faff about..

My work laptop was upgraded with SSD and it made ziltch real life difference... yes Word opens in 2.1 seconds now instead of 3.4 or whatever but so what? 90% of what I do is online and our company portals still dish out data as and when they feel like it so any speed gain 'my end' is largely invisible. Our company abandoned the upgrade rollout.

Anyway.. All I want is 15.6" 4GB RAM 120GB+ Hard drive Intel I3+ laptop in pristine condition, no dents, minimal scuffs, no scratches no sign of wear on the trackpad or donut crumbs in the keyboard (a UK keyboard not Polish etc) pref. installed with some variant of Windows 7 or a bit cheaper and drivers available so I can do my own install.

The crux of the problem is it either means trawling every Cashconverters for miles to see in person or ordering online and opening the box to either big disappointment or joy. The trouble then is most descriptions are sufficiently vague it will be a nightmare trying to argue what is acceptable. Hassle.

Surely ebay is your friend?

Loads of recycling companies on there.

That's where I tend to look. Cash converters etc tend to look for top dollar for their stuff

sillygoose

motorguy wrote: »

Surely ebay is your friend?

Loads of recycling companies on there.

That's where I tend to look. Cash converters etc tend to look for top dollar for their stuff

Yes and no. Everything is listed as something like 'Grade A, may have minor scuffs and signs of light wear' but one man's 'light wear' may be another's 'the letters half worn off the keys' !

you see what I am getting at? I am happy to pay 'top dollar' for a modest spec. machine in genuine 'hard to tell its not new' condition but no one grades in that kind of detail.

Why? well my son got given a new laptop (I wish I had bought two of them at the time!) and its not fair on my daughter to be given something that doesn't at least look new. I know it shouldn't matter but she has had to cope with a lot of disappointment this year and doesn't deserve 2nd best.

motorguy

sillygoose wrote: »

Yes and no. Everything is listed as something like 'Grade A, may have minor scuffs and signs of light wear' but one man's 'light wear' may be another's 'the letters half worn off the keys' !

you see what I am getting at? I am happy to pay 'top dollar' for a modest spec. machine in genuine 'hard to tell its not new' condition but no one grades in that kind of detail.

Why? well my son got given a new laptop (I wish I had bought two of them at the time!) and its not fair on my daughter to be given something that doesn't at least look new. I know it shouldn't matter but she has had to cope with a lot of disappointment this year and doesn't deserve 2nd best.

Yes, I can see where you're coming from. Where an adult might be happy enough with the odd scuff, a child wont understand.