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

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  • jbond
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    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.

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    I think I disagree... and STRONGLY?!
    I've also got a Dell, i3, Win10, with a normal HDD, and it works perfectly fine for what I want right now.
    Takes just over a minute to boot at the moment, which I'm ok with. I'm not looking for mega super-doopa fast bootup or anything.
    You say it's 'super fast', but what do you mean by that? Bootup or normal operation? If normal operation, mine is 'super fast' too!
  • GDB2222
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    jbond wrote: »
    I think I disagree... and STRONGLY?!
    I've also got a Dell, i3, Win10, with a normal HDD, and it works perfectly fine for what I want right now.
    Takes just over a minute to boot at the moment, which I'm ok with. I'm not looking for mega super-doopa fast bootup or anything.
    You say it's 'super fast', but what do you mean by that? Bootup or normal operation? If normal operation, mine is 'super fast' too!

    I have a pretty old PC, which got an awful lot faster when I replaced the HDD array with an SSD array. It makes most difference when the machine is working hard, doing things like speech recognition. You would not notice the difference just browsing from one page to the next. I agree with you that there's not a lot of need to shave a few seconds off the boot time.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • grumpycrab
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    jbond wrote: »
    Takes just over a minute to boot at the moment, which I'm ok with.
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I agree with you that there's not a lot of need to shave a few seconds off the boot time.
    You guys joking? If I turn a computer on I want to use it asap. And an SSD (as boot drive) helps achieve this greatly.
    If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.
  • GDB2222
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    Do you turn yours off completely, or does it just go into sleep mode?
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • grumpycrab
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Do you turn yours off completely, or does it just go into sleep mode?
    Off completely (hibernate).
    If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.
  • GDB2222
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    I just let mine sleep. Even with a slow processor it wakes up after a couple of seconds.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • RumRat
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    Mines on all day and hibernates overnight....Not seeing the need for a SSD yet.
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    Not an Alcoholic...!
  • AndyPix
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    jbond wrote: »
    I think I disagree... and STRONGLY?!
    I've also got a Dell, i3, Win10, with a normal HDD, and it works perfectly fine for what I want right now.
    Takes just over a minute to boot at the moment, which I'm ok with. I'm not looking for mega super-doopa fast bootup or anything.
    You say it's 'super fast', but what do you mean by that? Bootup or normal operation? If normal operation, mine is 'super fast' too!


    So you disagree strongly without knowing what kind of performance difference there will be :huh:


    Thats a bit strange.


    The performance increase comes from anything that has to do read/write ops .. So pretty much everything.
    Most noticable difference is at startup, and when loading programs - and it is very noticable.
    Theres no way I could go back to waiting for a minute for my computer to do something !!
    Fred Flintstone's 'tablet' was faster than that !!


    (See what i did there hehe ;) )
  • jbond
    jbond Posts: 107 Forumite
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    AndyPix wrote: »
    So you disagree strongly without knowing what kind of performance difference there will be :huh:


    Thats a bit strange.

    Bearing in mind what the OP originally posted, I don't really think you read properly and understood my post!
    I cannot be bothered to explain everything to you, but I do NOT intend to go out and buy an SSD, just to shave off 30secs from my laptops boot time!
    If boot time is a major major issue for YOU PERSONALLY, then you do what you like!
    I'm not saying I would accept a several minutes boot time either, I am just saying what is acceptable to ME!
    Each to their own I guess?!
  • debitcardmayhem
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    jbond wrote: »
    Bearing in mind what the OP originally posted, I don't really think you read properly and understood my post!
    I cannot be bothered to explain everything to you, but I do NOT intend to go out and buy an SSD, just to shave off 30secs from my laptops boot time!
    If boot time is a major major issue for YOU PERSONALLY, then you do what you like!
    I'm not saying I would accept a several minutes boot time either, I am just saying what is acceptable to ME!
    Each to their own I guess?!
    Hmm you like to "shout", but hey I read your post, and it is not a question of shaving off seconds of boot time, how much ram have you got, what do you use your Dell for, when you realise how much an SSD can help if you are paging a lot then ....just saying. Oh and discussions like this aren't helping the OP
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