£500 Laptop Recommendations
Discussion
mcbook said:
Simple really: I need a new laptop. Must be a solid performer for day-to-day business tasks, SSD is a must-have, (no need for video editing or high-powered gaming capability), look sleek and have lowish weight.
What recommendations do you have? £500 max price. Thanks.
I was pretty close to buying one of these the other day until I realised my 7 year old Fujitsu is still working fine.What recommendations do you have? £500 max price. Thanks.
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8GB Ram, 256GB SSD, Full HD screen, Ryzen 5 which has similar benchmarks to an i5.
Only reason not to I guess is if you only buy Intel.
mcbook said:
Simple really: I need a new laptop. Must be a solid performer for day-to-day business tasks, SSD is a must-have, (no need for video editing or high-powered gaming capability), look sleek and have lowish weight.
What recommendations do you have? £500 max price. Thanks.
Does it have to be new?What recommendations do you have? £500 max price. Thanks.
To answer a few questions:
Has to be new - need the warranty.
Day-to-day activity includes, preparing Word docs, PowerPoint, Excel. Using Photoshop to create/edit images (not overly complex, no video). Web browsing and use of various web-apps. Web conference calls.
14 inch would be fine. Have been looking at a Asus Vivobook 14 i5 but it's £100 over budget.
Has to be new - need the warranty.
Day-to-day activity includes, preparing Word docs, PowerPoint, Excel. Using Photoshop to create/edit images (not overly complex, no video). Web browsing and use of various web-apps. Web conference calls.
14 inch would be fine. Have been looking at a Asus Vivobook 14 i5 but it's £100 over budget.
I picked-up a well spaced HP laptop from Costco for £480 a few weeks back, it was on a deal I think it is normally £520ish. They give an extra year warranty so two years. Similar model was retailing at £650 elsewhere including on-line. Worth a look if you are a member, possibly worth joining if not.
mcbook said:
Has to be new - need the warranty.
Well I can't see you're going to get a new laptop with NBD warranty for £500 & if you have to send it away you'll be without it for a couple of weeks at least.Personally I'd buy two refurbished Lenovos or Dells from ebay & have a hot working spare. I've given up buying new PCs & laptops, it's just not really worth the extra cost. Buy cheap & treat them as disposable.
I bought a HP Pavilion a year ago - Ryzen 5 APU, 256 SSD, 15" thin and light for £495 from John Lewis (I think). Only thing it's missing (for me) is a backlit keyboard. Really please with it so far; very dependable, nothing has bent or broke. Same couldn't be said for the 2 Dell Inspirions I bought off the outlet prior to that, both of which had MBs fubar themselves and got sent back sharpish. Shame as I've have great Dell laptops in the past.
Edited by parabolica on Thursday 14th November 20:39
As a few of said, buy used, I've always had new PC's but wanted to use my work docking set up that i have at home so needed a HP Elitebook or pro book, they are £1k plus to buy new, anyhow work wouldn't give me an old one so went on eBay and got an elite book G3 850 with 8bg ram and normal HDD for £207.
I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
jonwm said:
As a few of said, buy used, I've always had new PC's but wanted to use my work docking set up that i have at home so needed a HP Elitebook or pro book, they are £1k plus to buy new, anyhow work wouldn't give me an old one so went on eBay and got an elite book G3 850 with 8bg ram and normal HDD for £207.
I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
That's the perfect way to do it.I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
Mr Pointy said:
jonwm said:
As a few of said, buy used, I've always had new PC's but wanted to use my work docking set up that i have at home so needed a HP Elitebook or pro book, they are £1k plus to buy new, anyhow work wouldn't give me an old one so went on eBay and got an elite book G3 850 with 8bg ram and normal HDD for £207.
I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
That's the perfect way to do it.I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
We have Lenovos. I know zip about laptops but assumed anything new will be way better than what have and so specs were pretty unimportant.
So, I went to Currys and tried out all the keyboards. I liked the Lenovo best, plus it has a hinge that folds the laptop 'inside out' and a touchscreen. Job done
So, I went to Currys and tried out all the keyboards. I liked the Lenovo best, plus it has a hinge that folds the laptop 'inside out' and a touchscreen. Job done
jonwm said:
As a few of said, buy used, I've always had new PC's but wanted to use my work docking set up that i have at home so needed a HP Elitebook or pro book, they are £1k plus to buy new, anyhow work wouldn't give me an old one so went on eBay and got an elite book G3 850 with 8bg ram and normal HDD for £207.
I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
This is certainly an interesting approach and if the laptop was for me I'd definitely consider it. However, laptop is for my wife (running a small business) and I don't want to get the blame when something goes wrong...I spend £31 on a new SSD, £34 on some more ram and i now have an 18 month old I5 with 256SSD and 16gb ram, I fresh installed windows pro and its not got a mark on it.
When I logged the PC with HP its said it had 17 months HP warranty left too.
I would look for a 2nd hand laptop on ebay, My MSI is a good few years old but has a 4k UHD screen, 32GB ram, 3tb 2.5" HDD plus slots for 3 x mSATA drives (2 occupied giving 512/256GB), has a GTX 980M GPU and i7 4910mq. You wont get that for £500 but should get something similar with lower specs but scope to upgrade
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