Lenovo ideapad 100s

BadBehaviour

Get a refurbished business Dell, Lenovo or HP. You can find them easily around 200 or less. They will work better than any new or refurbished Celeron from Argos or Tesco.

Business-grade laptops are built to last and more reliable than cheap consumer laptops.


Look for Dell Latitude, HP Elitebook or Lenovo Thinkpad on eBay for example and the old models are going very cheap now.

Newusername1

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By the way, you don't need to pay for MS office.
You can use free alternative like Libre Office or open office.

If you go for the re-installation route, I suggest you ask around your friends or family to borrow internet.
It could take quite a bit of data for updates.

Your first point re Libre i'm covering on Office 365 thread, the thing is I need a fully functioning Excel package, can say have one from 2007, but I need a fully functioning excel package.

I think I'm ok for data, i've got 20gb but a roll over from last month so at present 37gb of data this month. It'll use some though, i'm a bit reclusive so leaning on family or friends is difficult, i've got Rosie, shes got super duper broadband, but she's 100 miles away.

were

You asked for opinions, well this is a bit of a dog with fleas and rabies

You look at that 32Gig and you think 'My phone works', well this is shared, and your system after Ms updates, applications will chew its way through that 32Gig, Your phone had its own extra memory/disk for IOS.
Yes put a usb memory stick in it, sooner or later in transport, carrying, moving stuff around the table, it will get knocked, most likely damaging the port.

I honestly do not think you are going to get 2Tb of cloud storage for your 'lifetime'. Of the opinion that it will be a Tomtom lifetime where after a few months they turned around and say that this device is no longer current and is end of life, and that they are pulling support away, and lifetime map updates. Samsung have does this too with their 50Gb of dropbox space. That 2Tb disk is both cheaper than a physical disk, uses no electricity and some poor person has to look after it till... - too good to be true.

Yes, buy consumer laptops and you buy twice... or more in your case. How aout one of these, older, but still sexy and cheap http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-T420-Windows-10-Laptop-i5-2520M-2-50GHz-4GB-Ram-250GB-Warranty-/232194704148?

debitcardmayhem

Have you got the OS recovery disks? but of course that will involve 5 years of W7 updates, which takes a while. Nifty may have a link to a more upto date W7 re-install image for said Dell , but he will still ask for the service-tag. Also it will help you if you have the links for any software you use plus their license keys if needed. I will post a link to finding service tag in a minute
or so
http://www.dell.com/support/home/uk/en/ukbsdt1/Products/

Newusername1

Debitcardmayhem

Can you hold that thought for a while until I can work out exactly what you're talking about.

Give me about a day and a good nights sleep.

debitcardmayhem

NiftyDigits knows more than I , and if he is provided the service tag as above he will be much more help than I , but the PC you have isn't a star but should be more than capable for what you need, it just needs a fresh start. Sometimes if you can follow advice it costs you nothing but your time...good luck with the employment:D

NiftyDigits

Can understand your frustration with the DELL. Single core processor(AMD V160) coupled with DELL bloat and a slow hard drive(HDD).
It is also poorly designed for when it comes to user maintenance.
A clean install of Windows 7 would help, but what would make the machine actually usable would be a clean install to a Solid State Drive, at a current cost of around £50.
Since at that stage you would also have access to the CPU, you could change that to, for around £20, to something like the AMD Phenom II P960, to be found via eBay perhaps.

In fact, you could skip the SSD if on a tight budget and just replace the CPU, at a total cost of around £20, as the real issue, is your CPU, the AMD V160.
It's actually not a difficult job, as seen here and will result in a much lower blood pressure reading.
Of course you could go all the way and upgrade the RAM, CPU and HDD to SSD for around £90.

But personally I would start with the CPU and a clean install of Windows 7.