New laptop / PC needed.. Any recommendations?

[bikertomm]

Hi all,

So my laptop is on it's way out good and proper!

Its only an i3, windows 7 with a basic graphics card, 4GB RAM and 320GB Hard drive.

Somehow, it's lasted me over 4 years of constant abuse everyday, use of 2D and 3D (Sketchup) programs, so I really cannot complain!

Every now and again it goes SUPER slow, mouse is lagging etc, cant open a word document.. crashes.. etc.

Now, I don't really know what to look for as it seems everything is constantly changing and updating!

How much roughly will I need to spend for a decent spec machine? I'd like something out of the box as it were.

Will i5 be ok rather than i7?

Say I have a budget of £800, would I get a better PC or equally as good laptop? I think I'd rather have a laptop, but if the PC is much better it would make sense just to get one.

Sorry if this post is all over place, it's come at just the wrong time!

I will do some research in the meantime!!

Cheers,
Tom


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[BigShow]

For £800 I'd be tempted to get this:

https://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-17-7746-laptop/pd?oc=cn74604&model_id=inspiron-17-7746-laptop

- Aluminium body
- 17 inch LED Touch Display
- i7 Processor
- 1TB Hard Drive
- Nvidia Geforce Graphics Card

It's a beast. I use a 2 year old Dell for work and it's running flat out for 8 hours every single day and gets thrown about and abused and I've never had a single problem with it.

[Razzy]

Hi bikertomm,

First off yes you will get a better Desktop for £800 than you would laptop.

Do you need portability, if you do then laptop it is.

Once you answer the portability part then we can help some more
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[bikertomm]

Thanks lads.

I don't know if I need portability or not.

How much better would a desktop be?

I suppose I'm thinking laptop just for future proofing myself incase I do need to ever take it somewhere for work or whatever.

Thanks
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[sutty86]

if your not sure mate go with a laptop, then if you ever need to use it elsewhere your not stuck..

Also Laptops keep there value better...

The Dell looks a good buy,
go for i7 and makesure it has a half decent graphics card...
at least 8gb ram and at least 1tb

[Razzy]

Are you wanting to do any gaming on it?
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[bikertomm]

Thanks guys,

No gaming I highly doubt, other than a bit of minecraft possibly!

From looking into it, it seems I can get a half decent laptop for around £500.

These usually have:

Windows 8

Intel i5 (around 2.2GHz, 3MB cache if this means anything)

8GB DDR3 RAM

1TB Hard-drives (What's a SATA hard drive, just the make?)

And somekind of graphics card, like a 'Nvidia GE Force 820/830/840M'
These have a 'dedicated' '2GB DDR3'

Found a HP that was £630 now £530, 17" HD screen backlit keyboard, beats speakers ect with above spec.



My question is now this, do I get one of them and be done with it, is it better to get a decent looking i5 laptop with a spec like the above,

OR,

Find an i7 laptop with similar spec for say £600-£700?

Cheers.
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[bikertomm]

Also what's better intel i5 5200U,

or 4th gen intel i5 4200M?


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[NJD]

Why not DIY?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/