| Laptop Advice.... 10:53 - Sep 7 with 4924 views | Reuser_is_God |
What it will be used for:
Microsoft office
Web browsing
That's literally it - budget approx £300
What does TWTD recommend? |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:01 - Sep 7 with 4913 views | footers |
Just bought an Acer for £250 as my old Toshiba died of water (beer) damage. I wish I hadn't. A real case of 'buy cheap, pay twice'. I only use mine for the same as what you're describing but it's slow as anything, connectivity is rubbish and the screen is quite small. So if you can stretch to something like £350, I'd do that. |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:02 - Sep 7 with 4900 views | Kieran_Knows |
Get an iPad? |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:03 - Sep 7 with 4891 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Laptop Advice.... on 11:01 - Sep 7 by footers |
Just bought an Acer for £250 as my old Toshiba died of water (beer) damage. I wish I hadn't. A real case of 'buy cheap, pay twice'. I only use mine for the same as what you're describing but it's slow as anything, connectivity is rubbish and the screen is quite small. So if you can stretch to something like £350, I'd do that. |
I'm also getting rid of an Acer for the same reasons | |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:03 - Sep 7 with 4892 views | ipswich78 |
I'd consider an iPad or Android Tablet. Both will do what you need and will be quicker, better battery life and more portable. |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:03 - Sep 7 with 4886 views | Reuser_is_God |
| Laptop Advice.... on 11:02 - Sep 7 by Kieran_Knows |
Get an iPad? |
Not great for Excel Word etc | |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:08 - Sep 7 with 4873 views | ipswich78 |
| Laptop Advice.... on 11:03 - Sep 7 by Reuser_is_God |
Not great for Excel Word etc |
They might surprise you? I guess it all depends on how much you use Word / Excel. As mentioned above for £300 you are buying a laptop right at the bottom of the pile, it will give you a very poor user experience. | |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 11:59 - Sep 7 with 4831 views | RamRob |
| Laptop Advice.... on 11:03 - Sep 7 by Reuser_is_God |
Not great for Excel Word etc |
You can use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse if that's the problem |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 12:53 - Sep 7 with 4790 views | Durovigutum |
Second hand Asus ux305 |  | | |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 13:13 - Sep 7 with 4750 views | Deano69 |
| Laptop Advice.... on 11:03 - Sep 7 by Reuser_is_God |
I'm also getting rid of an Acer for the same reasons |
I would give up IT altogether if Acer was the only option, appalling kit (and company). Once had to return 110 out of 110 laptops from an order (admittedly sometime ago) I then lost out on the additional warranty we paid for as the pack needed to be hand written and posted individually to Italy, we had sent them all in one envelope. |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 13:37 - Sep 7 with 4724 views | DarkHorse |
Keep an eye on Dell Outlet store. Nothing in your budget right now, but there will be. Their "scratch and dent" machines are just open box returns, in my experience, and you generally get a lot more for your money than buying brand new.
Would recommend pushing your budget up to £350-400 if possible though. You'll get a lot more for your money. I don't like Acer, but this is a good spec for £390:
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer-spin-5-133-inch-ci3-8gb-128gb-laptop-black
Another option would be to get a chromebook and use google docs instead of Office. |  | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 17:02 - Sep 7 with 4654 views | Mark |
Acer is getting a hard time, but I find their laptops okay. Batteries last well, build OK for the money, fans relatively quiet. If they are slow it is probably to do with the processor, RAM and hard drive rather than the brand! Check the processor speed on www.cpubenchmark.net before buying, and look for a fast SSD rather than an HDD if you don't needs lots of storage. Also, think about the screen and whether you want HD or full HD. |  | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 17:28 - Sep 7 with 4632 views | Wonky |
Mark is right if you can do your homework processor/memory and search Amazon etc there is good value, it's a competitive market for the tech savvy.
On the other hand you can walk into Comet etc and spend the same and get far less. To the layman one laptop looks pretty similar to another. |  | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 21:00 - Sep 7 with 4572 views | Mark |
Lightweight and 256GB SSD is good, but fairly slow processor (1889 points on CPU benchmark), screen a bit smaller than standard and not full HD, no DVD drive, HP can be unreliable with noisy fans. | | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 21:32 - Sep 7 with 4545 views | Wonky |
Yes good value, even a low i3 will easily out perform Celeron/pentium. Fast laptops die a death because windows is never reinstalled on the hdd drive, so the SSD will hold up the speed for much longer. [Post edited 7 Sep 2017 21:33]
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| Laptop Advice.... on 22:10 - Sep 7 with 4512 views | tcblue |
£350 is more than enough for your needs, not sure why people are telling you about processors when you're looking at browsing the internet and Office. If those are truly your only requirements and you're going to be connected to the internet most of the time I would look at Chromebooks.
Simple, fast and MUCH slower to become obsolete |  | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 22:59 - Sep 7 with 4483 views | Mark |
| Laptop Advice.... on 22:10 - Sep 7 by tcblue |
£350 is more than enough for your needs, not sure why people are telling you about processors when you're looking at browsing the internet and Office. If those are truly your only requirements and you're going to be connected to the internet most of the time I would look at Chromebooks.
Simple, fast and MUCH slower to become obsolete |
A Chromebook like this could well be a good idea.
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/6344612
Read up on the pros and cons first though. | | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 01:35 - Sep 8 with 4449 views | jeera |
I bought a cheap HP ages ago for £220 from ebuyer. 3 years or so ago...?
The CD/DVD player on it is a bit 'whirry' nowadays but I barely use that enough to care. I use a tablet mostly for browsing but the laptop works just fine for that too and does the office type stuff perfectly ok.
I did replace the old drive after I once knocked the thing off the coffee table and it started playing up. I put in an SSD instead which made it less vulnerable to damage and it was all good from there. I blame Bully in part for the damage as I had been reading one his posts at the time I stood up and caught my foot on the attached cable, which then dragged it off the table...
Seems a clear case to me.
I'm sure you want something nicer and so do I when this one finally fails. I'm just saying don't pay out for the sake of it. |  |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 12:11 - Sep 9 with 4328 views | Mark |
I bought one of these recently, a real bargain for just over £200 with an SSD, full HD screen and processor which scores 2019 points on CPU benchmark. Refurbished (good as new) with a 12 month warranty from Littlewoods.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-Aspire-ES1-533-P7T9
1% Topcashback available too. | | | |
| Laptop Advice.... on 14:43 - Sep 9 with 4276 views | Deano69 |
| Laptop Advice.... on 21:00 - Sep 7 by Mark |
Lightweight and 256GB SSD is good, but fairly slow processor (1889 points on CPU benchmark), screen a bit smaller than standard and not full HD, no DVD drive, HP can be unreliable with noisy fans. |
Plenty quick enough for ms office and web browsing. Have sold 100's of HP laptops, their fans are no noisier than others I have come across. It was simply top of a google search at the price point and in stock | |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 15:03 - Sep 9 with 4254 views | jeera |
| Laptop Advice.... on 14:43 - Sep 9 by Deano69 |
Plenty quick enough for ms office and web browsing. Have sold 100's of HP laptops, their fans are no noisier than others I have come across. It was simply top of a google search at the price point and in stock |
Best thing I ever bought was a tray/stand for this HP laptop. The last one I had pretty much melted inside and the fan made a racket. It would - I'd suffocated it.
I can't even hear the fan on this HP. Bit of pressurised air once in a while and that's if and when I remember. I think the tray was 2 quid or something daft. | |
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| Laptop Advice.... on 15:20 - Sep 9 with 4246 views | CBBlue |
I've had a Chromebook for a couple of years and tbh I'm often swearing about/at it. Maybe I'm not IT savvy enough but I struggle with google docs and find I can't open some microsoft attachments sent to me and I've had people saying they can't open the google docs I've sent to them. Like I say it perhaps says more about my abilities than the system but if I need to do any word or excel documents to send to people I now just use my other half's windows based laptop instead.
The need for an internet connection also annoys when I need to do some work somewhere that doesn't have good internet access or free wifi. | |
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