What budget laptop (£200)

[drzsta]

Hi all,

Just after some recommendations.

I currently have a 7 year old laptop which takes an age to boot up so I have decided a new one is order.


I will basically never use it for gaming (ps3 soon to be ps4) so aslong as its got good storage capacity and enough RAM to handle PS CS4 then I'm golden.

Looking to spend around £200 possibly stretch to £300 but the cheaper the better as I won't be using it that much.


Cheers,

Ben.

[fatpies]

Send your old lappy to sleep instead of turning it off?

My old Dell from 2003 took 3 minutes to boot from cold. I sent it to sleep and it took 5 seconds to wake up.
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[doggone]

I thought these looked pretty good if you can organise your own Windows 7 (*cough* )
https://www.ebuyer.com/398944-zoostorm-laptop-7873-9040

[gfrancisdev]

eee 901, running lubuntu or similar

best laptop ever, small, 6h battery life, and enough power to do anything a laptop should

if you want gaming, get a desktop (or console if you want)
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[drzsta]

[karoshi]

Dell Latitude e6400, e6410 or e6500

Mostly get the one with the fastest available processor in budget, however you mention using cs4.. are you linking it to an external large screen or working on the laptop's own screen? if you haven't got an external monitor try to find one with the nVidia graphics card and the higher screen resolution option - standard screens are 1280x800 ish res, the higher spec option will have a 1440x990 res on the 6400/6410 series or a 1920x1080 on the 6500 series (likely to be expensive)

Don't believe any ebay ad that says 4.8Ghz processor, they're misrepresenting the 2.4Ghz dual-core processor because they're idiots or scammers. Highest spec 6400 model will be a 2.8Ghz (ish) core2duo, 6500s have early core i5s

they're pretty easy to upgrade, I ran one for four years that I'd upgraded to 4Gb ram, a WD Caviar Black HDD and windows7 Ulitmate, was prepping to install an SSD drive when it died.

The weak point is the screen, hinges can get worn and sloppy. After a while this can damage the ribbon cable which leads to display issues starting with a dark band appearing on the display.

Only annoyance for me was that they don't have a HDMI output, they have a Dell DisplayPort instead, can use a £10 converter to HDMI but I don't think it'll run sound on the output?
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[charlie74]

https://www.tier1online.com/728-277418g/refurbished-thinkpad-x301-intel-core-2-duo-u9400-1-40ghz-4gb-64gb-dvd-webcam

upgrade the warrenty from 3 months to 12 for not alot extra and still in budget

[daemonoid]

[charlie74]

[Dalemac]

[daemonoid]

[charlie74]

[CaNsA]

This thread is just full of facepalm.

unless you buy a heavily used, or a knocked off, laptop you are not going to get what you are after.

Get to cash converters and the like.

[daemonoid]

[Seb]

Near Plymouth? At the risk of being a spamming muppet, we've got a Dell i7 quad core 2nd gen with 6gb ram, 640gb hdd, dedicated 1gb nVidia GPU and licensed Windows 7 refurbished for a rather tempting £250 with a 3 month warranty. It's ultra cheap for a quad core i7 because it won't shutdown tidily. Let me know if you want more details
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[prawny1]

Assuming you have a reasonable cpu (dual core 2Ghz+) Spend £40 on a ssd and maybe another £20 on some extra ram, redo all the thermal paste whilst your at it and call it good.

Battery life will improve with an ssd as you have no platters to spin up.

If you can load a fresh copy of windows rather than the oem bloated restore images you usualy get you will find it will run like a different animal when mated to an ssd.

Even just reloading the o/s or running a repair install without replacing and hardware, would get you back to a sensible boot time
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[sickpup]

I strongly suggest you go on Ebay and have a look at Lenovo Z570 laptops. They are hitting as low as £250 and are quite excellent.

[Scotsman37]

Ok, here's a selection with Buy it NOW option just a bit above your purchase, but you may like them?

Acer Aspire E1-571 15.6" Notebook Intel Core i5-3210M 4GB RAM/500GB HDD Wins 8 @ £256 + free shipping

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-Aspire-E1-571-15-6-Notebook-Intel-Core-i5-3210M-4GB-RAM-500GB-HDD-Wins-8-/190879350193?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item2c714bbdb1

https://i.ebayimg.com/t/Acer-Aspire-E1-571-15-6-Notebook-Intel-Core-i5-3210M-4GB-RAM-500GB-HDD-Wins-8-/00/s/NDcxWDQxNw==/z/aWwAAMXQaOVRlPBH/$(KGrHqEOKo4FGTz4GObUBRlPBHS)Qg~~60_12.JPG


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Dell E5410 - 4Gb RAM, i5 2.4Ghz processor, 160GB SATA HDD, Windows 7 Professional 32bit Loaded and Licenced with COA @ £249.99 + free shipping


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https://www.grabalaptop.com/windows-7-laptops/dell-e5410/[/url]

Generic pic of the laptop from Dell's website

https://i.dell.com/images/global/products/latit/latit_highlights/latitude-e5410-overview-main.jpg

https://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/latitude-e5410/pd