Can anyone recommend a good cheap laptop

debitcardmayhem

EveryWhere wrote: »

GeeBee38;

With this device, you can change the storage drive in a couple of minutes; https://vimeo.com/277043608

Not the most exciting device, but the performance will be worlds away from that HP;

HP: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N4000+%40+1.10GHz

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-6006U+%40+2.00GHz

It already has a 120GB SSD :cool:

EveryWhere

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

It already has a 120GB SSD :cool:

I meant if the drive fails, it can be replaced in a couple of minutes. Whereas with the HP, you'll need to bin it or try to chase up on some sale of goods act outside warranty.

Frozen_up_north

RAM and SSD prices have come down in price significantly, I personally would only look at 8 or 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD. 4GB of ram is the absolute minimum and it’s easy to use 100GB of storage that for the minimal extra cost it’s not worth going for an SSD smaller than 250GB.

While I appreciate that it’s all too easy to head towards £1000 or more, it’s past the peak of school/university starting and Christmas, and is a good time to haggle with hard pressed sales people who will have sales targets to meet.

Don’t forget refurbished business computers, although with laptops they might have poor batteries and a few dings and scratches.

fred246

4GB is fine. Always look at the cpubenchmark of your processor. Different people use different amounts of storage. How much are you currently using on your current laptop? 64GB would be minimum. You will always get someone who tells you that a high spec is minimum.

arciere

Internet browsing and emails will depend on your internet connection, rather than the laptop.
Games are another story. You can't play decent (and recent) games with a £250 laptop, no matter what you buy, unless you only play card games or very low-demanding games.
Online streaming should not be a problem, but if you want to watch full-HD, or even higher, some slow CPU, like the old Atom, the Celeron or other 'mobile' CPUs (like the Intel m3) will struggle.
Memory, I agree 4GB is the minimum (and sometimes also more than enough), unless you use programs that require more than that or like to have tens of Chrome tabs open simultaneously.

GeeBee38

Hello, thank you everyone, sorry, but all this ram & ssd is going right over my head, i don't even understand what half of it means

Thanks

debitcardmayhem

GeeBee38 wrote: »

Hello, thank you everyone, sorry, but all this ram & ssd is going right over my head, i don't even understand what half of it means

Thanks

The pc you looked at from Currys/PC World is basically pants

GeeBee38

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

The pc you looked at from Currys/PC World is basically pants

Lol, thanks, see, i haven't a clue

fred246

My daughter has got a lovely desktop that I built for her. She wanted a laptop to research and write essays on the move. She paid £230 for a Lenovo Yoga. 4GB RAM. 64GB storage. Mainly uses cloud storage. Processor 1600 on CPU benchmark. She is very happy with it. Laptops aren't easy to repair so have a limited lifespan. I think it had a 2 year warranty. You would never pay for a repair. Just dispose & replace.

EveryWhere

fred246 wrote: »

My daughter has got a lovely desktop that I built for her. She wanted a laptop to research and write essays on the move. She paid £230 for a Lenovo Yoga. 4GB RAM. 64GB storage. Mainly uses cloud storage. Processor 1600 on CPU benchmark. She is very happy with it. Laptops aren't easy to repair so have a limited lifespan. I think it had a 2 year warranty. You would never pay for a repair. Just dispose & replace.

Utter nonsense.

I'm currently posting from an eleven year old laptop. The ability to upgrade RAM and to fit an SSD, has kept this device usable.

Totally ridiculous to recommend a device on the basis that you could throw it away after two years.