Finally got me a Thinkpad after much faffing and prevarication.
Local refurbishing company so I can walk it back in if needed. Which is nice and comforting somehow.
Lenovo ThinkPad L460 i5-6200u laptop 240GB SSD 4GB Ram 14″ FHD Win 10
Near mint as far as I am concerned. Ex-corporate machines - they had at least 12 of them on the shelf awaiting refurb.
Was on ebay and their website for £290 so I offered £225 on ebay and mentioned I could collect rather than them having to post it out.
So - £225 it was - 1 yr warranty - near mint condition -luvverly keyboard - battery life is great - I've had it on a while now and it reckons 60% = 5h 30 min.
As soon as I get used to the Fn key being on the bottom left corner of the keyboard rather than the CTRL I'll be 100%.
Happy to recommend the company/post the site up if anyone wants a look.
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My one is touchscreen but I use it hardly ever.Probably a 15" screen. I've never used a touchscreen laptop so don't know how useful this would be?
My one is touchscreen but I use it hardly ever.
They're my go-to supplier. They're efficient to the point that I've never had any need to find out how good their customer service is...Oh this one looks better Asus A509JA Core i5 8GB 512GB SSD 15.6" Win10 Home Laptop | Ebuyer.com for £590 with a bigger SSD. Are ebuyer OK to buy from?
Same hereThey're my go-to supplier. They're efficient to the point that I've never had any need to find out how good their customer service is...
I'd only go touchscreen for a Chromebook, since it can be useful for Android apps. I got the mrs a Yoga and she pretty much never uses the touch capability.
Though I don't get how it's irritating. If you don't use it, it doesn't get used.
I'm the opposite. Going back to a screen you can't interact with feels positively backwards now - but that's on a Chromebook. It's not so compelling on W10.I have a touchscreen laptop and it's incredibly irritating and I hate it.
My vintage Macbook Pro from 2010 has finally died so I'd really appreciate some help working out what to replace it with as I'm completely out of the loop. I need something mainly for internet browsing, some streaming, some torrenting, a bit of MS Office for home admin and for my daughter to do year 6 home-school work. I'd like to move back to MS so assume I need Windows 10? My budget's around £500-600. Oh and I'd like it to have a numeric keypad too! Looking at articles on laptops, storage seems to be much smaller these days than I'm used to (I had a 1TB drive in the Macbook) although I suppose as I have everything stored on Google Drive I don't need everything on the laptop as well?
I'm the opposite. Going back to a screen you can't interact with feels positively backwards now - but that's on a Chromebook. It's not so compelling on W10.
Off-topic a tad, apologies, but what does the hive mind think of this ? Refurbished HP Envy 13-ah0003na Core i7-8550U 16GB 512GB MX150 13.3 Inch Touchscreen Windows 10 Laptop - Laptops Direct ?
I played with an 8GB version in Currys and liked it a lot - they're available new but for like, pounds more.
...aaaand it's fucking gorgeous to type on as well, bloody lovely, best buy I've made in years.Got the 1TB version of this from another refurbished laptop company. loving the touchscreen, it flies, backlit keyboard, webcam killswitch (yes I know some applications can access the camera anyway so will be circumspect), loving everything about the laptop, luscious
(yes I know some applications can access the camera anyway so will be circumspect),