dog Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Last one has died. I have five hundred quid. I will be using it for work (teams etc) and for a bit of relaxation. Mainly football manager and music software (nothing too grand) Suggestions please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 39 minutes ago, dog said: Last one has died. I have five hundred quid. I will be using it for work (teams etc) and for a bit of relaxation. Mainly football manager and music software (nothing too grand) Suggestions please What sort of screen size buddy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 When MoodHoover juniors mac book air bit the dust, we went to our local computer repair centre and picked up a fully refurbished HP notebook, decent spec 15in screen with upgraded webcam for the all important zoom for £350. 12month warranty, windows 10, 4gb ram etc. Maybe worth a look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 17 minutes ago, 86 Hair Islands said: What sort of screen size buddy? Having a quick scan on the trade sites and something like this would probably suffice: HP 250 Gen 8 - MPN: 2E9J1EA#ABU 14" Screen, Intel i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD drive, WIN10 Pro. Note, no optical drive. Light, powerful and enough grunt to get you through a few years no bother. It's a good looking machine, HP build quality is strong and their warranties robust. Around the £500 mark at trade but not sure what they'd cost in Currys or the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtoileSportiveDeDerby Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Dont buy HP. Used to be good but no more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 14 plus Nowt too big tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 42 minutes ago, EtoileSportiveDeDerby said: Dont buy HP. Used to be good but no more Never had one fail in 20 years buddy. The one I've specced is a business class device not their consumer range (all the Pavillion stuff). I'm currently working on a 6 year old Elitebook and it's bulletproof. Cost over a grand though to be fair. Had multiple failures with Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Tosh. Macs still the way to go but they're just absurdly expensive these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 1 minute ago, 86 Hair Islands said: Never had one fail in 20 years buddy. The one I've specced is a business class device not their consumer range (all the Pavillion stuff). I'm currently working on a 6 year old Elitebook and it's bulletproof. Cost over a grand though to be fair. Had multiple failures with Dell, Lenovo, Asus and Tosh. Macs still the way to go but they're just absurdly expensive these days. Got my HP laptop for around £800 about 8 years ago. Never had a problem until fairly recently, with black marks appearing in the top corners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 2 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said: Got my HP laptop for around £800 about 8 years ago. Never had a problem until fairly recently, with black marks appearing in the top corners. To be honest, it's always worth paying around that figure or even more. As with anything, you get what you pay for. Bought a couple of lower end Lenovos but my devices run all day and night and they didn't even last 3 years. The higher end HPs give you a three year warranty as standard too which isn't to be sniffed at. Dell are the enemy (work thing!) but I'd not put anyone off the XPS range which are seriously solid in terms of build quality, though not cheap either. Mac aside, I'd pretty much not go near anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I love a touchscreen laptop and couldn't go back to something that didn't have it. So I'd recommend that for ease of use (a mixture of touch and trackpad but having the touch transforms things). But for £500 you're likely at the bottom of that market if you want a full-on PC rather than a Chromebook. This ASUS i5 256GB/8GB is £525 on John Lewis, maybe cheaper elsewhere. https://www.johnlewis.com/asus-x415ja-ek006t-laptop-intel-core-i5-processor-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-14-inch-full-hd-silver/p5321906 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I bought a Lenovo Ideapad 320S-14IKB in 2018 before I went to uni. Still using it now and haven't had any major issues. I've used it for uni work, paid work and Football Manager mostly. I think it was around £350. I know nothing about computers though so I'm sure someone has something better to recommend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Happens Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Also worth asking the question when you say the last one has died, what the issue is. I bought a Dell laptop for work about 8 or 9 years ago, very heavily used and has 'died' twice but both times just the hard drive and easily replaced for less than 20 quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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