What's the best laptop I can buy for under £450

charlotte_rose

My current machine is a Dell Inspirion 15 3000 series. Its about 30-months old

H/D 928 GB
i5 -5200 CPU @ 2.20GHz

Its fine for my current use which is confined to excel, word and browsing.

that

What makes it a bad laptop? What especially are you looking for? Does it have an SSD?

charlotte_rose

Works good, but buying a machine for eldest.

Does this help? wdc wd10spcx-75khst0

DollyTheSheep

SSD is a must nowadays, makes such an amazing difference. I have always gone cheap for laptops but my last one was a HP 250 with an i7 and 8GB of RAM and SSD drive. It is super fast, I love it. A bit over £450 on Amazon but worth the extra imo.

https://amzn.to/2OUZ1Ai

forgotmyname

The current one is fine for excel, word and browsing. But what are you expecting the new one to do that the old one wont?

GDB2222

charlotte_rose wrote: »

Works good, but buying a machine for eldest.

Does this help? wdc wd10spcx-75khst0

I'm confused. What's the relevance of what you are using?

Frozen_up_north

DollyTheSheep wrote: »

SSD is a must nowadays, makes such an amazing difference. I have always gone cheap for laptops but my last one was a HP 250 with an i7 and 8GB of RAM and SSD drive. It is super fast, I love it. A bit over £450 on Amazon but worth the extra imo.

https://amzn.to/2uP3I5g

Except the link is to one with a 1TB spinning rust drive...

that

this is a better cpu, but check the specs yourself, though ideally you want an ssd. but those rust spinners do still work... slowly
£429.99 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Inspiron-15-5570-Laptop-i5-8250U-Full-HD-2TB-8GB-WIFi-BT-Finger-Print/352566178130

How to install an extra SSD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMLRGhNvgB4

Tom99

Buy a laptop which already has the OS on an SSD don't faff about dismantling your new laptop.

Neil49

charlotte_rose wrote: »

Works good, but buying a machine for eldest.

Does this help? wdc wd10spcx-75khst0

I am also confused.

Can you just clarify whether the pc is for you to use or for your eldest. If it's for your eldest then what do they want to do on the pc?

prowla

I would look at the screen resolution - anything less than 1920x1080 (ie. full HD) is compromised.