Any recommendations for good laptop under £250

Fufu3333

Can you recommend a good laptop for everyday use - general internet surfing, writing up of letters, notes etc.  No gaming or such.  Just something with good ram (maybe 8GB or more), great processor, decent battery life, and storage capacity for everyday general use.  A good name that will last me a while.  Not interested in Chromebooks or refurbished models.  Thanks all.

Flugelhorn

I use a chromebook which does all that and is within that budget

Fufu3333

Flugelhorn, would I get Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc on a Chromebook?  What make is the one you have?

debitcardmayhem

Fufu3333 said:

Can you recommend a good laptop for everyday use - general internet surfing, writing up of letters, notes etc.  No gaming or such.  Just something with good ram (maybe 8GB or more), great processor, decent battery life, and storage capacity for everyday general use.  A good name that will last me a while.  Not interested in Chromebooks or refurbished models.  Thanks all.

At that price point not really

Flugelhorn

Fufu3333 said:

Flugelhorn, would I get Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc on a Chromebook?  What make is the one you have?

I have an Acer - no you don't get Word, Excel and Powerpoint but you can use google sheets, write, draw etc etc which can import and be saved as MS Office files. 

fatbelly

I've bought Refurb Grade A in the past and got what looked like brand new.

Bonhomie

Fufu3333 said:

Can you recommend a good laptop for everyday use - general internet surfing, writing up of letters, notes etc.  No gaming or such.  Just something with good ram (maybe 8GB or more), great processor, decent battery life, and storage capacity for everyday general use.  A good name that will last me a while.  Not interested in Chromebooks or refurbished models.  Thanks all.

You are obviously fantasising...Great processor, brand new, last you a while.

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Dell Outlet Inspiron 15 - 3520 Laptop

Intel Core 12th Generation i3-1215U Processor (6 Core, Up to 4.40GHz, 10MB Cache, 15W)

Windows 11 Home

8GB (1X8GB) Up to 3200MHz DDR4 SoDIMM Non-ECC

256GB PCIe M.2 NVMe Class 35 Solid State Drive

15.6 inch FHD (1920 x 1080) 120Hz Wide View Angle Anti-Glare 250-nits LED Backlit Non-Touch Narrow Border Display

Webcam with Microphone

Intel UHD Graphics

Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2x2 802.11ax

Platinum Silver - LCD Back Cover (Non-Touch Screen)

3-Cell, 41 WHr Lithium Ion Battery

No Optical Drive

UK English Non-Backlit Keyboard

It will be 'as new'..

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sk2402005

Unfortunatly you wont get anything new that is decent for £250.

The absolutle chepeast price poitn that wont want you throwing the thing out the window is aroud £400.

alternatively as suggested, there are some decent refurbs out there, just get at least a AMD ryzen 5, or intel 8 gen I5 or higher, and make sure it has an SSD drive at least 250Gb & 8GB RAM or more.

Doshwaster

At that low price point I would look at refurbishment models. A lot of Dell or Lenovos around are ex-corporate stock which have hardly been used and are just put onto the after-market due to bankruptcies. 

finbaar

What does "great processor" mean? Let us know your minimum specs - you've let us know your maximum price already - and we can talk,

Fufu3333

finbaar said:

What does "great processor" mean? Let us know your minimum specs - you've let us know your maximum price already - and we can talk,

I'm not too clued up on computers so wouldn't know even know what would be a great processor. Perhaps, I could rely on your judgement.