Reasonably priced laptop

FantasyIreland said:
Mine needs replacing,whats about for around £300? I mainly just browse but I prefer the idea of a laptop rather than a chrome book.
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One thing I can say with some certainty is avoid anything with an eMMC hard drive installed, after a windows 10 install and further updates you'll soon be left with little or no space for anything, in a lot of cases you wont even to be able to install updates because the storage is so small.

Looking at one with 8 gigs of RAM is also a must IMO, just general browsing is getting more resource hungry, and to top that off an SSD (Solid state drive) it makes a huge difference to speed a mechanical hard drive will just slow you down and over time it will make the laptop sluggish.

As an example I had a look through Argos, and the cheapest one that I could recommend I have added a link to, be careful to note that whilst the CPU has a low clock speed it has a substantial burst speed for more demanding tasks, obviously there are other laptops out there with the samish specs for roughly the same amount of money.

SSD
8 Gigs of RAM
Reasonably fast CPU

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mexico1970 said:
One thing I can say with some certainty is avoid anything with an eMMC hard drive installed, after a windows 10 install and further updates you'll soon be left with little or no space for anything, in a lot of cases you wont even to be able to install updates because the storage is so small.

Looking at one with 8 gigs of RAM is also a must IMO, just general browsing is getting more resource hungry, and to top that off an SSD (Solid state drive) it makes a huge difference to speed a mechanical hard drive will just slow you down and over time it will make the laptop sluggish.

As an example I had a look through Argos, and the cheapest one that I could recommend I have added a link to, be careful to note that whilst the CPU has a low clock speed it has a substantial burst speed for more demanding tasks, obviously there are other laptops out there with the samish specs for roughly the same amount of money.

SSD
8 Gigs of RAM
Reasonably fast CPU

Buy Acer Aspire 3 15.6in Pentium 8GB 256GB FHD Laptop - Black | Laptops | Argos

Buy Acer Aspire 3 15.6in Pentium 8GB 256GB FHD Laptop - Black at Argos. Thousands of products for same day delivery £3.95, or fast store collection.
www.argos.co.uk www.argos.co.uk
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Great,thank you for the advice and recommendation
 
mexico1970 said:
One thing I can say with some certainty is avoid anything with an eMMC hard drive installed, after a windows 10 install and further updates you'll soon be left with little or no space for anything, in a lot of cases you wont even to be able to install updates because the storage is so small.

Looking at one with 8 gigs of RAM is also a must IMO, just general browsing is getting more resource hungry, and to top that off an SSD (Solid state drive) it makes a huge difference to speed a mechanical hard drive will just slow you down and over time it will make the laptop sluggish.

As an example I had a look through Argos, and the cheapest one that I could recommend I have added a link to, be careful to note that whilst the CPU has a low clock speed it has a substantial burst speed for more demanding tasks, obviously there are other laptops out there with the samish specs for roughly the same amount of money.

SSD
8 Gigs of RAM
Reasonably fast CPU

Buy Acer Aspire 3 15.6in Pentium 8GB 256GB FHD Laptop - Black | Laptops | Argos

Buy Acer Aspire 3 15.6in Pentium 8GB 256GB FHD Laptop - Black at Argos. Thousands of products for same day delivery £3.95, or fast store collection.
www.argos.co.uk www.argos.co.uk
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Blue maverick gives a +1
 
I want to spend about £500 on a new laptop. Just for general use not gaming. Don’t need more than 0.5 - 1 TB hard drive.
Any recommendations?
 
west didsblue said:
I want to spend about £500 on a new laptop. Just for general use not gaming. Don’t need more than 0.5 - 1 TB hard drive.
Any recommendations?
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Loads at argos mate.



Both of these would do you to a tee.

If you want to go cheaper and not lose much if any performance then?

 
west didsblue said:
I want to spend about £500 on a new laptop. Just for general use not gaming. Don’t need more than 0.5 - 1 TB hard drive.
Any recommendations?
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This isn't bad but personally I'd be wanting a 3060 or higher if I was looking to upgrade, but it's a good price for a 3050 still

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I work in IT and usually get my personal laptops from Tier1 who are based in Manchester. You normally make a pretty good saving and I've not had any problems with them at all. They can add extra memory etc for you as well and they come with a warranty too. Plus, they are all decent makes - Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. I think they take ex-corporate laptops and just tidy them up.

Here's a link to their website (www.tier1online.com), hopefully it will save a few Blues a few quid before Christmas!
 
west didsblue said:
I want to spend about £500 on a new laptop. Just for general use not gaming. Don’t need more than 0.5 - 1 TB hard drive.
Any recommendations?
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We bought a brace of these last year and are satisfied per price point paid. Now advertised at £399 and paid £329.
Good for general gaming too and touchscreen as standard. Been an excellent choice for holidays and short trips away.

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Mrs got this over the weekend she's made up with it .https://www.johnlewis.com/asus-vivobook-15-x1500-laptop-intel-core-i5-processor-8gb-ram-512gb-ssd-15-6-inch-full-hd-silver/p109521944?tmcampid=81&s_emcid=JLE1799_CMM100000098_TR_20221115_&s_emuid=000000000000
 
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