Laptop Purchase Advice Please

james00744

Frozen_up_north said:

Argos have several Asus laptops, prices seem similar to everywhere else and you can often pick up the item without waiting for delivery.

A tip with Amazon is to put the item in your basket and wait a day or two to see if the price drops… an even better idea is to wait for the Prime sale on 16th/17th July. 2 years ago one of our Vivobook laptops was discounted by roughly £100 in the sale.

Going from 8GB to 16GB seems to add £200+ to the price in most cases on Argos. Amazing the difference between 8 and 16 on all sites.

james00744

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

ididgetwhereiamtoday

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

No catch. I bought a similar Spec Del Latitude though a 12.5 inch screen about 4 years ago from CEX for £220 and it is still going strong.

Cisco001

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

It is CEX. If you don't like it, take back to high street store within 14 days and get full refund.

james00744

Cisco001 said:

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

It is CEX. If you don't like it, take back to high street store within 14 days and get full refund.

Do you think it would be a lot quicker than my current PC specs?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
4GB RAM

Bonhomie

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

It is CEX. If you don't like it, take back to high street store within 14 days and get full refund.

Do you think it would be a lot quicker than my current PC specs?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
4GB RAM

Add RAM and an SSD to your current PC. £40 to £50. should cover that. Far cheaper and equally effective, with more than enough left over to get the laptop suggested by Cisco001.

Was it really necessary for me to tell you twice? 

Cisco001

i5-8400 is fast enough CPU. All you need is more RAM and SSD.

I still have desktop PC with i3 4th gen with 8GB RAM and SSD boot drive. It is capable for web browsing/ watching youtube.

Exodi

james00744 said:

Frozen_up_north said:

Search Amazon for Vivobook 15 and you will see several. I guess you are expecting more than the standard office/student laptop which typically has 8 GB RAM and a 256 GB SSD, in which case you either have to spend a lot more, or buy a 5 year old ex business laptop.

What do you want the laptop for? I run everything from CAD, electronic circuit simulation (Spice modelling), plus the usual standard Word/Excel stuff. I have no resource issues with 8/256 GB.

I use a lot of browser tabs/windows at the same time which I've seen eats up memory. I also connect to VPSs and each one of those takes up memory. Plus Excel, email. 4GB goes almost immediately, just with the browsers alone.

I'm still not sure what you describes suggests you need 16GB minimum.

I have an 8GB ram work laptop, I'm a very quick user and use it for graphics editing, countless tabs open across two monitors, etc. I don't really experience any issues. As of now I have 15 emails open in outlook, 4 excel documents, 8 tabs on chrome, 2 windows, Sage, the messenger app and photoshop, no noticeable lag (except when working on massive resolution psd files which is a chore for any computer).

I'd imagine 16gb would be overkill for what you need it for, that's stepping into gaming computer territory imo.

Exodi

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

It is CEX. If you don't like it, take back to high street store within 14 days and get full refund.

Do you think it would be a lot quicker than my current PC specs?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
4GB RAM

Ahh, we get to the root of it - you have a RAM problem.

Upgrade the RAM. You can pick up an 8GB stick for £20 and could install yourself in 20 mins with youtube on open on your phone (though you may need to order an iddy biddy screwdriver if you don't have one).

Bonhomie

Exodi said:

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

james00744 said:

Cisco001 said:

Lenovo E14 Gen 2/i5-1135G7/8GB Ram/256GB SSD/14"/W11/B CEX £200

£200? There must be a catch 

It is CEX. If you don't like it, take back to high street store within 14 days and get full refund.

Do you think it would be a lot quicker than my current PC specs?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
4GB RAM

Ahh, we get to the root of it - you have a RAM problem.

Upgrade the RAM. You can pick up an 8GB stick for £20 and could install yourself in 20 mins with youtube on open on your phone (though you may need to order an iddy biddy screwdriver if you don't have one).

More likely running an HDD, than specifically a RAM problem.
But advisable to do both at the same time.
https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=smem8g2666 x2 £18 plus postage for 16GB
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Factor-Intelligent-Magician-Software/dp/B08PC3PGZM/ £35
or
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08PC43D78/ £55