Buying a laptop

[Manc in London]

I am looking to buy a laptop. I don't need anything special as I only need it for the following:

Storing videos from a camcorder
Storing photos (although most of these will be stored in the 'cloud')
Occasional Internet use

We're leaking money at the moment as we are having extensive building works carried on the house, so I don't want to spend much. I just want something fairly quick and can deliver the above.

Any reecommendations? Any manafacturer I should avoid? Any manafacturers who are particularly good?

 

[blueinsa]

Get one that spell checks as well mate ;-)

 

[jimharri]

Home videos eh?

 

[Bovril]

Stay well clear of HP.....

 

[Manc in London]

Get one that spell checks as well mate ;-)

Haha my posts on here are full of typos as I am terrible at typing on a phone.

 

[Manc in London]

Home videos eh?

I wish...

 

[big phil]

Always found Toshibas pretty decent for the money. Any model with the i5 processor will be more than enough for what you'll be using it for.

 

[ndjsleftnipple]

Buy British

 

[ob]

Bought Packard Bell from Tesco online just over 2 years ago, similar use as what you want, watching xbmc, surfing net, saving photos to cloud - never had an issue with it

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Stay well clear of HP.....

HP on a bacon muffin starts a Saturday off on the best foot. Then yer go and watch the EDS v The Dippers, followed by City v Hull, and then, oh 'kinell, have another bacon muffin!

 

[TCIB]

Could you give us a rough amount bud or just as cheap as possible ?

 

[kaz7]

Acer's are good,i have 2 aspire one's with no probs
Prices start from about £175 i think for the smaller size but the larger ones are a good price too

 

[stony]

Acer's are good,i have 2 aspire one's with no probs
Prices start from about £175 i think for the smaller size but the larger ones are a good price too

Acer's don't tend to like heavy use and don't last very long.

 

[kaz7]

Acer's are good,i have 2 aspire one's with no probs
Prices start from about £175 i think for the smaller size but the larger ones are a good price too

Acer's don't tend to like heavy use and don't last very long.

I use my small one all day and the bigger one for football,i must have got lucky so far then

 

[jimharri]

Acer's are good,i have 2 aspire one's with no probs
Prices start from about £175 i think for the smaller size but the larger ones are a good price too

Acer's don't tend to like heavy use and don't last very long.

A bit like their owners?

 

[noblelord]

I now buy all my computers from Novatech. The website is novatech.co.uk. Their computers do not contain any of the usual trial programmes and bloatware that infect pretty much all other new computers. The inital price quoted does not include an operating system and you have the choice of Windows 7 or 8. Their staff are very helpful and they provide lifetime free technical support.

 

[stony]

Acer's are good,i have 2 aspire one's with no probs
Prices start from about £175 i think for the smaller size but the larger ones are a good price too

Acer's don't tend to like heavy use and don't last very long.

I use my small one all day and the bigger one for football,i must have got lucky so far then

Or we've been unlucky. We've had three. Mrs stony has had two, and my lad has had one. First one lasted 3 years which prompted me to replace it with the same and buy my lad one. His lasted a year and the wifes lasted about 18 months.
I replaced hers with the cheapest Del I could find and its been ok so far(over 3 years)

 

[Squelch]

Presuming you are looking at buying a laptop with Windows as the operating system. Microsoft will be offering a free upgrade of Windows 7 or Windows 8 to Windows 10. With this in mind it might be worth looking that the laptop you buy has the following specification.

1GHz processor or above
At least 1GB Ram (2GB for 64-version)
20GB spare hard drive space

I would not suggest upgrading straight away - leave it say 6 months after the launch of the free Windows 10 offer - for them to fix the bugs, and for other software suppliers to ensure their software is fully compatible with the new Windows 10. Hope this helps.

 

[TCIB]

Acer's are good,i have 2 aspire one's with no probs
Prices start from about £175 i think for the smaller size but the larger ones are a good price too

Acer's don't tend to like heavy use and don't last very long.

I use my small one all day and the bigger one for football,i must have got lucky so far then

I use my big one all the time.

 

[kaz7]

Acer's don't tend to like heavy use and don't last very long.

I use my small one all day and the bigger one for football,i must have got lucky so far then

I use my big one all the time.

I knew someone would say it :)