New laptop - suggestions?

[Leaway2]

Before you plump for JL, you may want to cast an eye over laptops direct. They have some refurbished items that are very good value.
I have a netbook, that was grade 2, "Light signs of wear and/or slight marks or scratches" I could never find any.

 

[Leaway2]

Can you put Linux on that?

sudo apt-get update&&sudo apt-get beads

 

[Beebo]

Can you put Linux on that?

you can spray it with whatever deodourant you want.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Sorry for the hijack.I am looking for a laptop at the moment,what's the CC collective opinion on this? Never had a Lenovo though i hear they tend to have fragile HDD's.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Idea...UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2OAJ7377F756P#productDetails

 

[Kins]

Sorry for the hijack.I am looking for a laptop at the moment,what's the CC collective opinion on this? Never had a Lenovo though i hear they tend to have fragile HDD's.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Idea...UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2OAJ7377F756P#productDetails

Doubt they make the HDDs themselves. Be one of the big manufacturers normally. Hitachi, Seagate, western Digital etc. Only problem might be the layout inside which could lead to overheating of some components. In hot weather or hot room I use a Laptop cooler though that is not always possible.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Doubt they make the HDDs themselves. Be one of the big manufacturers normally. Hitachi, Seagate, western Digital etc. Only problem might be the layout inside which could lead to overheating of some components. In hot weather or hot room I use a Laptop cooler though that is not always possible.

I think Lenovo use Seagate.

 

[Cycleops]

Difficult to see how Lenovo Ideapad could be nearly two grand new but £314 with "minor cosmetic imperfections to the screen". Lenovo is quite a respected make though. For my part I haven't used my laptop since I got an iPad mini2. If you want to do all the things a laptop can do I would be inclined to go for one of the new Microsoft Surface Pro 2 machines: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/products/surface-pro-2 Can also be used as a tablet.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Difficult to see how Lenovo Ideapad could be nearly two grand new but £314 with "minor cosmetic imperfections to the screen". Lenovo is quite a respected make though. For my part I haven't used my laptop since I got an iPad mini2. If you want to do all the things a laptop can do I would be inclined to go for one of the new Microsoft Surface Pro 2 machines: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/products/surface-pro-2 Can also be used as a tablet.

Yes i was looking at the £314 priced one.I agree that £1800 is too much.It's in my basket now just waiting to be checked out
Can't really see any downsides for my needs.

 

[I like Skol]

Hi @400bhp I asked a similar question a couple of years ago and quite a few people said Samsung (which we did buy from JL, what with being awfully middle class). To be fair, it is still working and we never needed to trouble the extended JL warranty but I just never fell in love with it. The tactile user experience isn't great after previous business class Dell's, the touch pad/mouse thingy is a bit flaky and the software has always been a bit clunky, I would say almost from day one. I just always get the feel that the processor is 'on the edge' with lots of perceived slowness/hesitance and some extended sessions of the 'spinning donut'.

I'm not very techy but my vote would be to steer clear of Samsung laptops.... ?

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Yes i was looking at the £314 priced one.I agree that £1800 is too much.It's in my basket now just waiting to be checked out
Can't really see any downsides for my needs.

Now bought (the £314 one)

 

[400bhp]

Got the toshiba one at home now. (Not using at the moment).

First impressions after a couple of hours use:
-feels solidly built
-not convinced I need the windows 8 pretend apps ( I kept going back to the windows 7 front end)
-mouse pad takes gettin used to. Was annoying me at first as it felt slow\sticky. Turns out was using it wrong (tap anywhere for left nmouse button rather than hold down implicit button in bottom left hand corner) and the double finger scroll down. But I think it will be better longer term.
-quite a bit of junk on there (preloaded amazon link ffs)
-went straight to google chrome, IE is shat
-cant get outlook.com to runb my talktalk emails. Will revert back to gmail I thik.
-you have to pay for a desktop version of outlook, seriously..wtf