Laptop under £500. Is this good value?

silvercar

In desperate need of a new laptop, budget around £500. I saw an HP one in Argos for £499 but it's out of stock. that had cpu benchmark of 7995.
I am the person who only buys a laptop every 10 years, so needs to last. Was told to look for quad core, 8MB RAM and decent processor.
I've just seen this HP one at currys that benchmarks at 11271, that seems almost too good to be true! 
If the answer is that Intel is better than Ryzen, I've also seen this Lenova one at costco benckmark at 7982 but it is £569 so a bit over budget. 
Really grateful for any advice.

Neil49

The one at Currys has decent reviews but it isn't all down to benchmarks. Check user reviews for comments on screen quality and brightness, how good the keyboard is, can the graphics cope with photo editing. 

getmore4less

got a couple of hits
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-15s-eq1510sa-156fhd-sva-ryzen-5-4500u-256gb-ssd-8gb-ram-silver-3572128
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/this-early-black-friday-laptop-deal-is-the-best-laptop-you-can-get-for-under-pound500

NO ethernet connection


What use cases do you have.
what's wrong with the one you have?
10y old are often still good enough for day to day stuff with simple upgrades.

silvercar

getmore4less said:

got a couple of hits
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-15s-eq1510sa-156fhd-sva-ryzen-5-4500u-256gb-ssd-8gb-ram-silver-3572128
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/this-early-black-friday-laptop-deal-is-the-best-laptop-you-can-get-for-under-pound500

NO ethernet connection


What use cases do you have.
what's wrong with the one you have?
10y old are often still good enough for day to day stuff with simple upgrades.

Very helpful thank you.
As for my current machine, the fan no longer works, it overheats and switches off. I have only outlook, chrome and excel open and each one often says "not responding" and freezes. Often the mouse disappears from the screen and I have to reboot to find it. The screen jumps up and down intermittently. the cursor has a mind of its own, just sometimes. Occasionally I'm typing and the words are 6 letters behind me. It's an Intel core i3-2330M @2.20GHz 6.0 RAM Intel HD graphics 3000 running with Windows 10 64 bit. The most annoying thing is that it drops the internet often, and it can't pick up the 5G wifi in the house only the 2G part. I'm sure you will say it is all fixable, but I can't open machines and fix, so there is a cost to it all.

J_B

silvercar said:

 It's an Intel core i3-2330M @2.20GHz 6.0 RAM Intel HD graphics 3000 running with Windows 10 64 bit.

Open it up, clean all the dust, fit an SSD and away to go.

What Make/Model/service tag?

silvercar

J_B said:

silvercar said:

 It's an Intel core i3-2330M @2.20GHz 6.0 RAM Intel HD graphics 3000 running with Windows 10 64 bit.

Open it up, clean all the dust, fit an SSD and away to go.

What Make/Model/service tag?

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2F8.
How much would it cost to get someone to fit an SSD and clean it?

debitcardmayhem

you can do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rEWhySei08
We can talk you through how to add windows 10 cost of disk + a caddy

debitcardmayhem

Just noticed you say fan not working, is it just crud that is inside, the fan replacement is more intricate but can be done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_OaVq4p-Y8

silvercar

That's beyond me! Back to my original post, is the hp one from currys at £499 good value, or is that high processor score suggesting it is cheap for a reason and if so, what is it? Or is it worth spending £70 more for the lenova?
A good screen would be great.

silvercar said:

In desperate need of a new laptop, budget around £500. I saw an HP one in Argos for £499 but it's out of stock. that had cpu benchmark of 7995.
I am the person who only buys a laptop every 10 years, so needs to last. Was told to look for quad core, 8MB RAM and decent processor.
I've just seen this HP one at currys that benchmarks at 11271, that seems almost too good to be true! 
If the answer is that Intel is better than Ryzen, I've also seen this Lenova one at costco benckmark at 7982 but it is £569 so a bit over budget. 
Really grateful for any advice.

J_B

silvercar said:

That's beyond me!

Don't be so defeatist because first you asked ...

silvercar said:

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2F8.
How much would it cost to get someone to fit an SSD and clean it?

Do you have a local computer shop, maybe even a one man band you find on your local Facebook page?

A cheap SSD for under £25 (?) and a couple of hours work, not sure what these folks charge £100 (?)

That's a quarter of what you are thinking of spending.

Food for thought perhaps?

silvercar

J_B said:

silvercar said:

That's beyond me!

Don't be so defeatist because first you asked ...

silvercar said:

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2F8.
How much would it cost to get someone to fit an SSD and clean it?

Do you have a local computer shop, maybe even a one man band you find on your local Facebook page?

A cheap SSD for under £25 (?) and a couple of hours work, not sure what these folks charge £100 (?)

That's a quarter of what you are thinking of spending.

Food for thought perhaps?

I’ve had the fan cleaned out before, it didn’t last that long before it started playing up again. Could that really be the reason everything runs so slowly?