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Which Laptop??

BOBBIs_MUMMY · 2019-07-15 19:10:49

The 100 Dollar question!! Our HP Laptop is nearing it's end of life and now looking to replace it. Current configuration is i3-3100m CPU@2.40GHZ with an 8GB Ram (I am by no means an expert in all of the jargon simply copied from the laptop!!) We are looking for another HP (Possibly Dell ) laptop to replace this one.…

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letsbehonest Posts: 1,098 Forumite

20 July 2019 at 8:46AM

There is a lot of good advice above, me personaly would fit an ssd and start from scratch I appreciate you are no computer expert but there a lot of good You Tube tutorials on how to do it. I would also suggest changing your operating system too Linux Mint it will do most of what you want and it's very easy to use and quick and does not need an anti

virus package and it's free and easy to load onto your new disk.

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