Is this laptop SSD?

[Deleted User]

No I don’t have a laptop at the moment no.

toshi

I also beg you not to buy this, we have seen the same mistakes again and again here. Still you don' listen ....

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5840207

pennypincher2013 wrote: »

My mother has recently bought a windows 10 HP Pavillion laptop. It had been slow and chugging so I have been asked to take a look at it. I have done all updates and it has improved but it's still not working as it should be. It seems to be ok if only one thing is being used but once two applications are opened, it is slow. I've checked the CPU, memory and disk usage and have found the CPU and memory go high when two applications are open. It's only Microsoft Edge and Word open, it shouldn't be having trouble.
What can be done to fix this? If I can't fix it, my mother wants to take it back to Argos for a replacement.

The above slow HP Pavillion CPU is Intel Pentium N3710 CPU Mark 1862
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/8106188

Your Asus X540 15.6 Inch Celeron 4GB 1TB Laptop uses Intel N3350 processor. CPU Mark 1117

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8248981

You are guaranteed to be frustrated ! :eek:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-N3350-vs-Intel-Pentium-N3710/2895vs2730

Your Asus X540 CPU is still far less powerful than my 10 years old HP Elitebook 8440, which I bought from eBay at 50 pound a couple of years ago. I don't mind if you have already this spec and want to upgrade, a lot of people here are doing so with an SSD, BUT this is NOT the brand new computer you should buy at 2018 at any cost

This budget laptop has to make cheaply, then ever corners have to cut the cost! Of course, less powerful CPU, no SSD, as you see. In addition, bulky case and less responsive keyboard and mouse-pad ( I won't be surprised if they would be unusable/ less responsive in a couple of years.)


The budget is tight ? Sure get a refurbish business level laptop!

Reference Only, No Rush (do research by yourself, and ask your question here, people here will assist you to find even better deals)

https://www.encore-pc.co.uk/lenovo-thinkpad-l530-i3-3120m-2-50ghz-4gb-ram-160gb-grade-c

LENOVO ThinkPad L530 15.6inch - i3-3120M 2.50GHz - 4GB RAM - Grade C 240GB SSD (upgrade) & 1 year warranty (upgrade) £174.99

Get an SSD, no hard disk at 2018 !!!!!!!

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-N3350-vs-Intel-Pentium-N3710-vs-Intel-i3-3120M/2895vs2730vs1442

Happy computing and saving

WaywardDriver

From your implied £300 budget, any new laptop wouldn't have what I'd consider to be the minimum spec of I3 processor, 8Gb RAM and 500Gb HDD. So refurbished business is route to go particularly as office software may already be installed. I got mine from a local computer repair shop.

[Deleted User]

I don’t understand where this assumption of me needing the most super fast laptop has come from. In sure everyone thinks and assumes that everyone does the most high tech tasks such as gaming, editing pictures and videos, streaming tv or music.

I saw this one too...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8437589

Surely that is adequate to do what I do on a laptop so browsing the internet, checking emails and typing a few documents.

A simple answer of yes or no would be nice.

twhitehousescat

simple answer

" adequate to do what I do on a laptop so browsing the internet, checking emails and typing a few documents. "

yes

long answer , not good quality , and slow

neilmcl

MarkN88 wrote: »

I don’t understand where this assumption of me needing the most super fast laptop has come from. In sure everyone thinks and assumes that everyone does the most high tech tasks such as gaming, editing pictures and videos, streaming tv or music.

I saw this one too...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8437589

Surely that is adequate to do what I do on a laptop so browsing the internet, checking emails and typing a few documents.

A simple answer of yes or no would be nice.

Nobody has made that assumption. The advice we're giving is simply trying to help you get the best bang for your buck. It is MSE after all. Do your want something "adequate" or do you want something that's the best your money can buy?

Inner_Zone

MarkN88 wrote: »

I don’t understand where this assumption of me needing the most super fast laptop has come from. In sure everyone thinks and assumes that everyone does the most high tech tasks such as gaming, editing pictures and videos, streaming tv or music.

I saw this one too...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8437589

Surely that is adequate to do what I do on a laptop so browsing the internet, checking emails and typing a few documents.

A simple answer of yes or no would be nice.

Purchased one of those last week for £255, it was dog slow, fitted an SSD instead of the HDD now flies. Note it does not have a M2 slot like some other similar models so a 2.5" SSD is required.

psychic_teabag

MarkN88 wrote: »

Why do people say SSD over HDD?

In addition to performance, SSD has no moving parts, and so would be a bit more resiliant to knocks and things that a laptop might suffer.

Frozen_up_north

MarkN88 wrote: »

I don’t understand where this assumption of me needing the most super fast laptop has come from. In sure everyone thinks and assumes that everyone does the most high tech tasks such as gaming, editing pictures and videos, streaming tv or music.

I saw this one too...

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8437589

Surely that is adequate to do what I do on a laptop so browsing the internet, checking emails and typing a few documents.

A simple answer of yes or no would be nice.

The big problem with budget laptops (spinning rust disks, or even SSD in some cases) is they can be really slow to startup. You don’t notice until you try an expensive business laptop that starts in a few seconds... A friend bought an Acer budget laptop a few months ago and you have time to brew a cuppa before it finishes fiddling and shuffling on startup.

I have an old Dell i7 desktop that I bought secondhand which came with 16GB of RAM and an SSD, it boots in a few seconds.

I would be tempted to visit a computer shop (Curry’s/Dixon’s) and ask to see how quickly various models startup.

[Deleted User]

I take all that on board and appreciate that.

As someone mentioned above it would be adequate and might be slow but for what I do I believe that would be alright.

I just feel people are trying to say super super fast is what I need. When in reality I don’t need it to be like that for what I did realistically.

I wasn’t having a go at anyone I’m just in urgent need and within a tight budget and can’t be waiting 14 days from the dell outlet so I understand where people are saying go refurb but I can’t wait tgat long for a delivery which is why I was looking at retailers such as Argos and Curry’s.

But that’s why I cane here as I thought someone could kindly confirm if I could use one of the laptops posters for what I actually do on one as if you go go Curry’s the salsa staff hound you and with me not been so clues up on texhnooogy they would end up selling me something more powerful than I realistically need.