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Old dell is beyond economical repair..
Need a non gaming PC for net surfing, photo editing and home office duties..
Havent looked at PC specs in 5 years so any help please on a deal or what to look for...
Why not a laptop? Get a refurbed Lenovo Thinkpad from eBay. 16GB RAM and an SSD then wooooooosh. If you need to use a bigger monitor then just plug one in.
I don't see the need for big desktops at home these days.
Willing to look at laptops... still not sure what to look at!!
Only buy a laptop if you want the conveninece / portability. Otherwise you are paying extra / getting less spec for your £'s
Are you buying everything or are you going to reuse your screen ? New larger 24+ screens are great but if you don't need one you have £100+ extra to spend on the box. Note if you spend £25 on a usb caddy you can put the old harddrive in it and copy over anything you want and/or wipe it and use it as external storage.
Monkey I much prefer a desktop due to relative location of screen and keyboard (eyesight) and as above for same £ I get more horsepower/spec out of same £ for a desktop vs laptop.
I know you said non gaming, but this for the money is outstanding value:
[url= http://www.awd-it.co.uk/awd-z1-intel-i5-6400-3.3ghz-gtx-1060-6gb-ddr5-vr-gaming-pc.html ]Linky[/url]
Doesn't include a copy of windows for that price though..
A few months ago I replaced a Dell desktop with another Dell desktop and very happy with it, hadn't realised how slow and clunky the old one had become. It has the smallest screen available which seems huge to me and a similar size to my telly!
Don't get on with laptops, desktop suits me fine and encourages good posture.
Edit: paid extra for their speakers and sub that turned out to be worse than what they replaced, unfortunately had taken them to the tip. Think it was around £600.
You don't need to spend £500 on a PC just for
.net surfing, photo editing and home office duties
I got a refurbished PC from [url= http://stores.ebay.co.uk/PC-Bitz-UK/Refurbished-Desktops-/_i.html?_fsub=9363833010&_sid=185476390&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322 ]this eBay seller[/url].
It does everything you'd want it to do and came with Windows 10. It cost me less than £150, and that was including a monitor, which I presume you already have.
The sellers are good lads. They forgot to include a VGA cable in the box, but they sorted it out straight away with no fuss when I contacted them.
Plenty of interesting machines on Hebden's link. Compaq with 8GB RAM for £110 ?
Thanks all.. especially Hebdencyclist
Bought a refurb for £250
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131918140465?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Wow.. cant believe how quick it does everything.
Even turning it on and off is literally a few seconds..
Will be putting the money save towards a new or refurbed monitor