New desk top?

BFBW

Baldytyke88 said:

BFBW said:

What your PC really needs is a Solid State Drive. Cheap as chips and will improve the performance considerably. You can install Windows 11 24H2 at the same time as swapping the slow HDD you have, to the faster SSD. Come October you can upgrade to Windows 11 25H2, which will take you up to October 2027 with your current device. Though if you intend to take it to someone else to do it for you, that option might turn out to not be cost effective.

I have built my own PC many years ago, so I could add an SSD. Would the old drive be replaced by the new SSD, if so I am thinking it would need to be 500GB+?

You have options. You could clone the old drive (and then upgrade to Windows 11 if you wish)
If there is space for more than one drive, there is the option of installing Windows 11 directly to the SSD and copying over what you want from the old drive. 

Frozen_up_north

Baldytyke88 said:
I have built my own PC many years ago, so I could add an SSD. Would the old drive be replaced by the new SSD, if so I am thinking it would need to be 500GB+?

You will need a caddy to fit an SSD “drive” in place of a 3.5” HDD. Don’t go overboard with a large drive, 16 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD is pretty standard for a home/office PC, but Windows 11 is quite happy with 8 GB RAM and a 250 GB SSD.
Don’t forget that whatever you fill your drive with will need backing up regularly. I’ve had an SSD fail (a Samsung drive) and had to restore from backup a couple of times due to software upgrades fouling things up… fortunately it doesn’t happen often, but the larger the storage amount the longer a backup takes.

flashg67

Morgan computers is a long standing reliable source of refurb laptops/PCs . You likely don't need more than 16gb of ram and a 256GB hard drive for most uses. A back up portable hard drive and/or cloud account for back-ups is a good idea too

Boohoo

flashg67 said:

Morgan computers is a long standing reliable source of refurb laptops/PCs . You likely don't need more than 16gb of ram and a 256GB hard drive for most uses. A back up portable hard drive and/or cloud account for back-ups is a good idea too

Morgan computer's are still going?

I remember these ads in Computer Shopper and Micro Mart in the late 90's I think.

Frozen_up_north

30 seconds on the web brings up Morgan:

https://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/

flaneurs_lobster

Boohoo said:

flashg67 said:

Morgan computers is a long standing reliable source of refurb laptops/PCs . You likely don't need more than 16gb of ram and a 256GB hard drive for most uses. A back up portable hard drive and/or cloud account for back-ups is a good idea too

Morgan computer's are still going?

I remember these ads in Computer Shopper and Micro Mart in the late 90's I think.

Bought my first laptop in their store (New Oxford St?) circa 1995.

GDB2222

BFBW said:

Newcad said:

The refurbed ones on ebay seem to be around £300 depending or the specifications.

Beware of refurbished Windows 11 computers on eBay and the like at the moment, particularly laptops.

They may well be older 'non-compatibe hardware' machines that have used 'hacks/tweaks' to get Windows 11 installed on them anyway.
Machines like that will usually run slower than a fully compatible Win 11 machine, and you will have problems with them in future.
eg. If you get one now that has a 'tweaked' install of Win 11 24H2 it won't update to 25H2 (out soon).
The only possible way to do that on such a machine would be a complete reinstall (with more, different, tweaks) of Win 11 25H2 - and doing that will lose everything you have already put on it.

If you currently want a refurbished Win 11 machine then get one from a reputable dealer, where you can take/send it back if necessary, don't risk some unknown seller on ebay or the like.

Respectfully, all you have written about 'hacks' and 25H2 is incorrect. There is no indication that they cannot be updated as normal. What information do you have that indicates otherwise?

The OP has said that his current machine isn’t suitable for W11. He clearly wants one that meets all the specifications for W11. Newcad correctly stated that lots of machines being sold on eBay with W11 on don’t meet the specifications. 

If you have an argument, it’s with the OP. You can explain that in your opinion his current machine is suitable for W11, and he doesn’t need a new one at all. 

BFBW

Frozen_up_north said:

Baldytyke88 said:
I have built my own PC many years ago, so I could add an SSD. Would the old drive be replaced by the new SSD, if so I am thinking it would need to be 500GB+?

You will need a caddy to fit an SSD “drive” in place of a 3.5” HDD. Don’t go overboard with a large drive, 16 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD is pretty standard for a home/office PC, but Windows 11 is quite happy with 8 GB RAM and a 250 GB SSD.
Don’t forget that whatever you fill your drive with will need backing up regularly. I’ve had an SSD fail (a Samsung drive) and had to restore from backup a couple of times due to software upgrades fouling things up… fortunately it doesn’t happen often, but the larger the storage amount the longer a backup takes.

A caddy is not necessary...