Laptop thoughts

[Cletus Van Damme]

I have always found HP products (laptops and desktops), not the real cheap ones to be really well engineered and of really high quality. I agree with comments listed in this thread that AMD cpu's (more so older ones) can run really hot. My HP 9470m Ultrabook is the best laptop I have ever owned. It wasn't cheap, and it's a few years old but its quality. I've owned a couple of other cheap laptops, a Toshiba, not bad but not as good as the HP, and a Fujitsu Siemens that was just an utter piece of crap. My HP is quality, it's so easy to access components compared to others, so easy for cleaning. It wasn't cheap but everything about it is top notch.

I'd maybe consider Microsoft Surface Pro, to get the best of both worlds, then again I know little about them but like the idea.

 

[vickster]

I got a Lenovo from John Lewis on Xmas eve in the sale even better they've brought the price down so I'm waiting for a price match

http://www.johnlewis.com/lenovo-u31...b-13-3-/p2295701?colour=Red#tabinfo-spcl-offr

 

[Andrew_P]

That's a pretty good deal, I was going to post the best thing I ever did for my Laptop was to install an SSD, and pay for a dropbox account.

The SSD makes it run pretty swiftly even though it is a £1000 laptop from 2010 - Dropbox and a bit of free software called Belarc Advisor allows me to wipe the drive and re-install Windows if it starts getting sluggish again. All Belarc does is give me a list of Software installed with the licence numbers and dropbox makes it painless and worry free I am now totally trained that even what I think is junk file is saved to Dropbox.

 

[fossyant]

It will fly. Just popped a 1GB SSD in our HP ENVY (and that flew already) and it's stupid fast now. It also still has the 1TB spinner in as well as it's a 17.3" so has two drive bays. Simple job actually, the only fiddly bit was the super tiny SATA connectors. Managed to source a fitting kit and SATA cable for £20 rather than HP's £60

 

[vickster]

Good old JL, refund on way to my credit card