Laptop, max £1k budget. Windows. Choices.....

[StevieT735]

As above, looking for a new laptop for the wife, she’s a dab hand with photography and excel, and takes shedloads of photos. Ideally no bigger than 13 inches as we travel a fair bit, and hopefully something that’ll last her a good while.

My laptops a MacBook Pro (bought in 2010 and upgraded in 2015) and she’s never got on with it so we’ve decided to get her a new one.

I’m not really up to speed with specs and features anymore so would like to pick the brains of the resident experts.

Cheers.

[DoctorX]

Quite like these. Refurbished but as new:

https://m.dell.com/h5/m/uk/r/outlet.euro.dell.com/...

[Tycho]

I've got a surface laptop for work and it's great. The screen is brilliant and it is so thin and light.

I'd definitely take a look at them. John Lewis usually have them on display.

[RizzoTheRat]

I was going to recommend the same site, bought my Inspiron 13 from the Dell outlet store and its great. The XPS is a lighter and slimmer so probably better for travel, but costs more. Bear in mind the prices on the site are ex-VAT though

If she's likely to be tweaking photos on it go for as much memory as you can (think the option on the refurb store is likely to be 16 or 8GB), you'd easily get an Inspiron 13 in budget but probably not an XPS with 16GB RAM.

[AJB88]

I've got a Dell XPS 13 and couldn't be happier with it! I've got a Ubuntu edition one though.

[anonymous-user]

I would try a Surface Laptop 2 just with i5, 8GB and 128GB storage. She'll probably want to keep all her photos in the cloud or external storage anyway. You can get one of those in grey for £979.

I've got an XPS 13 but you won't get anything like the Surface screen on it for that kind of money.
I've got a Surface Pro too and the difference between that screen and a std XPS HD is night and day or do I mean day and night .