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Looking to get a basic laptop for surfing, Ms office use and basic multimedia use ie general household use. No task gaming etc. What would you recommend? TIA!
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I saw a core i3/5th gen available online in PCWorld t'other day for £299 or you could go for a 4th gen for £279.99. I'm a bit wary of the celerons. My sister was asking to replace hers on Sunday.
[url= http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-f5-571-15-6-laptop-red-10137493-pdt.html ]acer[/url] and [url= http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-g50-15-6-laptop-black-10139333-pdt.html ]lenovo[/url]
Looked for something similar recently and apparently these have a good spec for the money.
[url= http://www.ebuyer.com/724984-hp-250-g4-laptop-n1a92ea-abu?gclid=CIbWuv6i5ckCFdVAGwodykIFmA#fo_c=951&fo_k=afed28c3b10a16502de2a5501bc742b0&fo_s=gplauk?mkwid=s_dc&pcrid=51467863979&pkw=&pmt= ]HP 250 G4 £299[/url]
Personally from several years hard use I'd go for a surplus T series Lenovo for around £250 from a few places. Win 10 update, and you have a well built machine worth adding RAM / swapping to SSD to as and when you want too (or not).
Like this: [url= http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/product_detail/15434/Lenovo-Thinkpad-T520-Intel-Core-i5-2520M-Dual-Core-2-5GHz-15-6-Laptop-4GB-320GB-WebCam-Windows-7-Home-Premium/ ]Although I'm pretty sure that's meant to be a T420 which I'm using right now.[/url]
I like the solidity of last years business class kit, you might not care and prefer a better warranty / new from box etc.
HP from PC World, pretty good deals recently.
There's the cheap range they were selling off in the Black Friday sales, plastic but OK. Around £299 mark. Older generation i5s or so.
The really good one is the aluminium cased options for £399. Look a similar spec but the processors are a newer generation. If you can stretch the build quality on those is really nice.
Lenovo are OK alternatives if you can get a deal, MSi do some good, cheap gaming laptops, a bit plastic but better than paying over the odds for Alienware guff.
I'd avoid Dell and Toshiba as I've had nothing but quality control issues and cases falling to bits after a year, Sony are a bit over rated too.
The cheap HP's feel cheap - and plastic, flexible and not so well built imo.