Laptops?

[sight-pin]

Can anyone recommend an half decent laptop, i5 processor maybe?...It's for my granddaughter who's starting high school soon etc,
So up to the £500ish, needs to be fast, i'm thinking at least 4gb ram and 1 Tb HD......Needs to last her quite a while lol.
Cheers.

 

[fossyant]

Hp Pavilion

 

[Fnaar]

I was listening to a computer expert on the radio last night, giving recommendations, and he said he always buys re-furbished ones... pre-owned by businesses, well-looked after, cleared out and new software loaded (without bloatware) and much cheaper... not sure where you get 'em tho...

 

[Penmere]

Plus one for HP Pavilion, love mine

 

[fossyant]

Buy the magazine Micro Mart and they have loads of refurbished laptop sellers advertising in there.

We have a 3rd Gen Core I5 Pavilion and a latest Gen i7 HP Envy. Not sure if the baby HP Envy is just out of budget. The Envy range has Nvidia graphics cards

 

[sight-pin]

Thanks all for the input, My daughter will take a peak to see what she thinks, It's for her daughter who goes up to the senior school this September.

 

[andyfraser]

I like Chromebooks but then I'm odd.

 

[midlife]

The fans went on our HP laptops, now have Lenovo and Asus. I guess there is going to be a lot of typing so I'd get a laptop with keys that have a good positive action over the make .....

Shaun

 

[ufkacbln]

Just a thought....

Many companies offer educational discount (even Apple)


Also the School may run a license on software that enables cheap use

It may be worth chatting to the school

 

[Drago]

I like Chromebooks but then I'm odd.

Bought one as a gift for Woman and were both extremely impressed.

I have to have a windows laptop for SAR planning as all the software is Windows based, so being thick and knowing nothing I play it safe and get a Dell every 3 years or so,

 

[andyfraser]

Bought one as a gift for Woman and were both extremely impressed.

I have to have a windows laptop for SAR planning as all the software is Windows based, so being thick and knowing nothing I play it safe and get a Dell every 3 years or so,

My OH was impressed enough with Chromebooks that she now has one too.

I still need Windows too unfortunately. I've limited Windows to the desktop and my laptops run ChromeOS and Linux Mint.