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Had a lovely 13.5" Rock dual core laptop for 6 years. It has worked hard but hd has just died. Really liked it because they partitioned it from the factory and did not load lots of freecrap demo software on it. Don't really have the expertise to do this myself and a bit out of touch, so where should I be l looking for something similar?
Rock just do high end gamimg laptops now. Want something for media, video and image editing and fast. Not interested in macs, Dell, Toshiba or Lenovo as had bad experiences of last 3 and not willing to pay apple premiums
Many thanks
Anyone?
A few months back I spent £550 on an Acer 17" laptop and so far it has been really good. Got it from AcerDirect and the service was very good - only slight annoyance was receiving an e-mail after ordering saying, 'you don't appear to have added x, y and z to your order. Before we ship your laptop, please let us know if you would like these added'. X, Y & Z being stuff like Norton, a case, extended warranty etc. I just replied saying that I didn't want any of it and the laptop arrived the next day.
It doesn't come with masses of preloaded software, but enough that I wanted to remove some of it. I found some freeware that seemed to do a good job of removing bits and pieces that I need.
I went for an i5 with 6 GB of RAM and it is pretty quick.I went for a bigger screen over something a bit faster, for the budget.
I put Microsoft Security Essentials on it for virus protection, which runs nice & discreetly.
All in all, very pleased so far. Windows7 seems pretty nice too, with no crashes, hang-ups, fast updates that don't occur too often....
Buy a MacBook pro but get a refurb to avoid the apple premium
http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
Refurb store appears empty at the moment but try every day as the deals change.
Replace the hard disk?
Not interested in macs
Replace hard drive with SSD, buy a copy of Windows 7 / 8 and install it yourself - it is not at all hard if you know which end of a screwdriver to pick up.
The above will be cheaper than a new laptop, won't be full of demoware/junk and if you are happy with your old laptop... well, you'll be happy with this one.
I've just got a samsung rf711. It's been configured by work so I don't know if it's got a load of rubbish on it normally, however performance wise, I'm very impressed. Nice keyboard and touch pad as well, almost as nice as my HP pro book.