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Affordable laptop recommendations: budget £350-£450

Maybe 13 inch but preferably 15...

She would also probably use it for work but that's just Citrix/Office based stuff
 
Throbbing Angel said:
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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I've bought a 2nd Thinkpad from this company for lil'Angel and friends I have referred have bought another three - good to be able to support local

daughter's Thinkpad is the same model as mine and again - fab battery life, fab keyboard
 
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?
 
Lenovo have had some fantastic deals on their site recently, not sure if they are still live, otherwise check hotukdeals for well, deals.
 
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.
 
Chz said:
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.
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The point and touch crew don't like them I've found - some seem to forget that if you interact with it it'll do something.
 
^^ that. Plus if you move your screen forward or back tilting you invariably touch it. I moved around the office a lot with it, and that was a nuisance.
 
PursuedByBears said:
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?
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Not ideal if yours has just died, but real soon Lenovo will be launching a new range with the Ryzen 4000 series chips which are supposed to be a real step change and also in your price range.
 
editor said:
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.
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This is true - my work laptop is a touchscreen W10 and I virtually never use it because there's no need and it isn't a useful addition.
When at my main place of work it is docked to 2 massive monitors and a keyboard and mouse so the lid is down anyway.
If I am working elsewhere I am usually typing so generally not needed.
 
izz said:
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.
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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 :D
 
izz said:
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 :D
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...aaaand it's fucking gorgeous to type on as well, bloody lovely, best buy I've made in years. :D
 
(yes I know some applications can access the camera anyway so will be circumspect),
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I taped a small square of paper over my laptop camera when I got it oooo 7-8 years ago, my paranoia has been backed up by reports I've subsequently read :)
 
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What's the comparable budget 11 years later? I bought my dad a tablet with an optional keyboard last month for about £100 (from Asda) and from what I could tell it did most stuff
 
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