Looking for laptop suggestions

Draqo

As they say in the other post linked above, if its getting dropped/knocked around a lot theres not much point in spending more on something that's just going to get busted up at some point..

OP seems to be aware of their own usage and fine with replacing a unit every few years.

SammyBoyd

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82144824#Comment_82144824

Again…who suggested to spend more?

Draqo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82144896#Comment_82144896

Comments in this thread suggesting that OP is looking in the instant e-waste range, would suggest more money needing to be spent, you bought a Surface 7 for £250, which is more than the machine OP linked, do you really want to get into cyclical semantics or actaully help OP?

If OP wants to buy a £190 machine every 3 years, because he doesnt want to spend more on a device he'll end up dropping or knocking off a table, thats his shout, while we can probably all agree that he would get a better machine for more money, if he knows its going to end up on the deck at some point…
As I said, he knows his usage more than we do, so perhaps we should just stick to assisting him with what he actually wants rather than discussing what we would do, for our usage, with his money?

SammyBoyd

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82145010#Comment_82145010

No, the suggestion is, at that price point, it is worth looking at refurbished devices. I wrote of a Surface Pro 7+ . That would be an example. If the budget is £200, there are other options. At least PhotoMan will have the option of a brighter and a more colourful high resolution screen, whilst feeling free to knock it off a table at leisure.

SammyBoyd

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6684024/looking-for-laptop-suggestions

What did you choose?

PhotoMan

Still vacillating

Frozen_up_north

PhotoMan, can you give everyone an idea of how much you are prepared to spend? The laptops you mentioned were very much "bottom of the heap" in terms of being useful. If it is only £200, as others have mentioned you are probably better off looking at ex-office laptops by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc..

The realistically useful new laptops are the general purpose "home/office" ones with typically a 15.6" screen, i3 or i5 processor, 8 GB RAM and 250 GB SSD. Many will be 16 GB/500GB.

Argos have the HP 15-fd1007nax 15.6 Inch Core i3 100U 8GB 256GB Laptop, item 829/9813, £299

And the HP 15-fd0064na 15.6in Intel Core i5 8GB 256GB Laptop, 784/9587, £379

The first of those has a limited resolution display, which despite Argos mentioning "high resolution" it appears to only have 1366 x 768 pixels. The second one, according to Argos, has 1920 x 1080 pixels.

Double check the actual specification of the above, as adverts are not always accurate.

Other than those and second hand ones, you are into the region of £500.

PhotoMan

Ideally under £300 - we may go and look at some this week to see if the screens are acceptable.

Vitor

I was using a friend's cheap laptop with 4GB and eMMC storage I was ready to through it out the window it was so slow.

PhotoMan

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82164676#Comment_82164676

What was it slow at?