Hello, is there any techy geeks on here who can advise me on a new laptop I might be interested in buying? I only use it for this place, Netflix and other work related things as well so don't need anything too fancy.
My current one doesn't seem to like connecting to my home Wifi, it runs out of battery the minute I take the charging plug out and it's just got generally slow over the years.
I found this decent looking one in Argos, what do you think?
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5029976
Laptop
posted on 29/4/20
Op, you may want top go for this HP instead. For the same price, it has a faster processor (2.1Ghz) and a touchscreen.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7952254
posted on 29/4/20
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 46 seconds ago
Op, you may want top go for this HP instead. For the same price, it has a faster processor (2.1Ghz) and a touchscreen.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7952254
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i like the look of that.
posted on 29/4/20
Replacements batteries for laptops are relatively cheap.
posted on 29/4/20
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 9 minutes ago
Op, you may want top go for this HP instead. For the same price, it has a faster processor (2.1Ghz) and a touchscreen.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7952254
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Still a AMD Ryzen which don't last
posted on 29/4/20
I’ve never had an AMD processor, is it good and better than an i3?
posted on 29/4/20
comment by Sergio Marquina (U11781)
posted 3 minutes ago
I’ve never had an AMD processor, is it good and better than an i3?
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I always used sites such as the below to compare CPUs and GPUs.
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/cpu/2
Generally speaking AMD currently offer better performance for your buck compared to Intel. Though this might be different for laptops.
I would recommend looking at
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/
I’ve been a member on there for over 10 years. Some extremely knowledgable people on there but as I said before. For your uses I doubt you would notice much difference. SSD, battery life, RAM & screen size & quality are priorities but ask the guys on that forum they’re very helpful.
posted on 29/4/20
I recently bought a Huawei Matebook D13, great mid range laptop, cost £500. Uses an AMD Ryzen 5 processor with 8gb ram and 500gb ssd. Build quality is as good as the Dell Latitude range and they cost over £1000.
posted on 29/4/20
The laptop itself the OP linked is ok but FFS do NOT install bloody Norton on it.
There is plenty of free AV/AM software out there all of which are far less intrusive than Norton
posted on 29/4/20
comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 3 hours, 17 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 9 minutes ago
Op, you may want top go for this HP instead. For the same price, it has a faster processor (2.1Ghz) and a touchscreen.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7952254
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Still a AMD Ryzen which don't last
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No disk drive on that either - Not used that often these days but still handy to have.
256Gb SSD, could be bigger.
posted on 30/4/20
Work recently got me a Dell XPS, not sure it's worth the money tbh.