Can anyone recommend a good cheap laptop

parking_question_chap

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

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

This.

Aside from the build, you really should be getting a 8gig laptop (minimum) for gaming.

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Mr_Majeika wrote: »

Check out the HP EliteBook 8460p on Valu Computers

IMHO it is a bit over priced, worth about £150, and much less via a private sale.

GeeBee38, possibly explain the word game, as to some it is solitaire, but others it is GTA V. To me it is wormate.io

debitcardmayhem

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.

Very MSE £230 and dispose, my oldest laptop is 8 years old, and cost £350 and would put the HP quoted above and your Yoga in the bin just by looking at them, mind you I have doubled the ram to 8GB , not got round to adding an SSD since it mainly runs linux and Windows in a VM, hence the 8GB. I guess people that think £230 is disposable change their phones every year and have smart devices in the house thinking that controlling everything with an app will save them money,... most unlikely.

EveryWhere

Something like this is of a reasonable spec; https://www.blackmoreit.com/nrspmp1cfqg0mpnxb7b07040--lenovo-ideapad-320s-14ikb-laptop-core-i3-7100u-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-14-windows-10-.html

and you can make an offer;

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-IdeaPad-320S-14IKB-Laptop-Core-i3-7100U-4GB-RAM-128GB-SSD-14-Windows-10/302987421845

I wouldn't buy a laptop in this day and age that did not have a Full HD screen and did not utilise a proper solid state drive.

Unfortunately the screens on these; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Latitude-E7240-Ultrabook-i5-CPU-4GB-RAM-128GB-SSD-12-Touchscreen-/232902237137 are too small for you.

EveryWhere

parking_question_chap wrote: »

This.

Aside from the build, you really should be getting a 8gig laptop (minimum) for gaming.

You are making assumptions as to the kind of games involved.

fred246

The YOGA is perfect for her needs. It has no moving parts and should be perfect for at least 10 years. If there is a problem I would fix it. If I couldn't we would rather buy a new laptop than PAY for a repair. My friend took a laptop for repair and when it came back they wanted twice the original quote which ended up much greater than the price of a new laptop. When he refused to pay he was assaulted and ended up in hospital.

fred246

What do people do with all this RAM? My desktop PC has 2GB and works perfectly. If it didn't I'd put more in but it doesn't need it. My daughter reckons she only has problems when she has more than 40 windows open at a time. Is this for gaming?

EveryWhere

fred246 wrote: »

The YOGA is perfect for her needs. It has no moving parts and should be perfect for at least 10 years. If there is a problem I would fix it. If I couldn't we would rather buy a new laptop than PAY for a repair. My friend took a laptop for repair and when it came back they wanted twice the original quote which ended up much greater than the price of a new laptop. When he refused to pay he was assaulted and ended up in hospital.

If the SD card fails, how will you "fix it"?

People don't think ahead to maintenance when they buy plastic nonsense.

EveryWhere

fred246 wrote: »

What do people do with all this RAM? My desktop PC has 2GB and works perfectly. If it didn't I'd put more in but it doesn't need it. My daughter reckons she only has problems when she has more than 40 windows open at a time. Is this for gaming?

You use the word perfect a little too freely....

fred246

There are plenty of YouTube videos on Yoga SSD replacement. I am sorry for using perfect too often. It just means that it works fine. Boots quickly with SSD. Internet pages load quickly. Never run out of RAM with 2GB.