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Woodster wrote:If you can’t do a Mac then what about a Chromebook? Prices start at £199.
https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chrom ... gLEB_D_BwE
Also, have you considered a Tablet? I borrowed a laptop from work over the Christmas break many years ago and really couldn’t get on with it at all. I have a desktop for some jobs but most of my stuff is done on a tablet - iPad Pro 10.5. Tablets are great for surfing, email, and YouTube etc.
Robert wrote:I bought from Amazon. The customer service is excellent as long as you buy from amazon and not a seller. Very easy to return if you don't like it.
Here is a search page with a couple of options ticked
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=computers& ... e-asc-rank
This one for £349 looks OK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/HP-14-Inch-Ful ... rs&sr=1-23
M.2 type SSD is the faster sort so it will boot up quick and recent 7xxx and 8xxx series processors give excellent battery life.
Plenty of others to look at in the search results and reviews to read.
btw.. Windows 10 tries to get you to sign up for a microsoft account during set up. You can if you want an internet sign on that you can share with other MS products. I never do. There is an almost hidden option to proceed without a MS account and that lets you create a normal user and password (pass can be blank for no password). The no MS account option is more like you are used to with 7 and XP.
Andyp wrote:We did not get on well with HP. Not sure of model as it is in Canada now. Bought 3 years ago. It was forever updating either the HP software or windows. Caveat, this could have been the way my daughter set it up on day one.
The missus has Dell for work and they certainly seem robust and reliable. Would probably buy Dell for the twins come Xmas.
Watching with interest. Please let us know what you decide on.
MJ80 wrote:Hey Bob,
funny you should be looking into this. I have just gone through the same thing and I ended up getting a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad T450s. It has an older i7 processor, expandable RAM ro 20 gig, SSD and a good screen, Windows 10 pro, twin battery setup. No DVD drive, but you can get an external one and they also have docking stations should you want to set up a desktop workplace. Really well built, I'm totally chuffed and it has a years warranty on it.
I needed a laptop that works, that wasn't expensive and will do the basic work I need it to. Word, Excel, outlook, T'interweb and sketchup...
Was on EBay german but they ship to the UK and I'm sure they can swap the keyboard. Also lenovo are really good for spares, which swung it for me.
I wouldn't have been able to get anything new with as good specification for the same money.
Drop me a message and I can send the eBay links etc.
Hope this helps.
TrimTheKing wrote:We use Lenovo as our corporate suppliers, 20,000 machines in the UK and we're very happy with them Bob.
9fingers wrote:Also Lenovo dont seem to offer USB 2 and I've got a lot of usb 2 stuff and leads etc in regular use. Dells (E6430 or its small screen brother) are offering a mix of usb2 and 3
Bob
Robert wrote:9fingers wrote:Also Lenovo dont seem to offer USB 2 and I've got a lot of usb 2 stuff and leads etc in regular use. Dells (E6430 or its small screen brother) are offering a mix of usb2 and 3
Bob
USB3 is fully backwards compatible back to USB1 so whatever you have will work....according to Google
TrimTheKing wrote:We use Lenovo as our corporate suppliers, 20,000 machines in the UK and we're very happy with them Bob.
Andyp wrote:TrimTheKing wrote:We use Lenovo as our corporate suppliers, 20,000 machines in the UK and we're very happy with them Bob.
Is there likely to be a difference in build quality and components between the business spec office machines and the less expensive home user variants?
I am assuming as corporate customers you are able to obtain high end machines at a discount.
Duncan A wrote:You mentioned availability of spare parts. Well, most parts in laptops are fairly standard but some stuff like batteries, RAM and SSD's are not easily changed on the slim models. The RAM may well be soldered in nowadays and batteries would require the back of the laptop to be removed - not too difficult but not as simple as no-tool swapping. Basically, similar to modern smartphones.
Dell, to their credit, often have the maintenance manuals downloadable from their website with full instructions on how to change just about every single component.
My recently purchased Dell laptop had a faulty power button, so I was all set to have to return it for repair, but they sent an engineer to do it despite not having an on-site warranty. Took him about 1 minute!
Duncan
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