gentlegreen
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Hp website said no monitor connection with or without a usb- dock.Who told you that? It wouldn't do 4k, but it can do 1080 Full HD just fine.
Hp website said no monitor connection with or without a usb- dock.Who told you that? It wouldn't do 4k, but it can do 1080 Full HD just fine.
I'm hoping to escape this house and head for France and don't want to haul a desktop with me. I'll have to rent initially.If you’re attaching it to monitors is there any particular reason why it needs to be a laptop given desktops give way more bang for your buck?
Ah, okay. That's a limitation of the laptop itself rather than the USB port. Most non-professional level laptops (eg: the Elitebooks if you want HP) can be a bit funny with it. For example, my wife's Inspiron does it - it has a stylised "D" next to it; but a friend's Acer (which cost more at the time!) doesn't. I think you'll not find sub-£800 consumer gear that will do three.Hp website said no monitor connection with or without a usb- dock.
It’s worth considering if the only advantage is the move. Way more horsepower pound for pound.I'm hoping to escape this house and head for France and don't want to haul a desktop with me. I'll have to rent initially.
It might actually make more sense to buy over there.
Plans are a bit vague ATM, but I 'm going to need internet access right from the start.
When's the last time you defragged the harddrive on the desktop that started being glitchy? Doing that can often give a bit of a new lease of life. Also doing the software updates.I'm hoping to escape this house and head for France and don't want to haul a desktop with me. I'll have to rent initially.
It might actually make more sense to buy over there.
Plans are a bit vague ATM, but I 'm going to need internet access right from the start.
I had a bad experience selling a laptop on eBay where the buyer opened a dispute almost immediately which lasted months then closed that and opened another. In the end I just told him to send it back and I’d refund but completely unsurprisingly he didn’t bother. Months of headache for nothing.
That said I’ve sold loads of high value tech on there with no issues at all.
There's old and there's second gen i3. If you could find a bit more money you could get a way more caperable machine.
I'd be looking for a 3/4th gen i5 min. I think the sweet spot second hand is 8th/9th gen i5, almost modern PCs but old enough to be about second hand in volume.
That is a very nice spec.Same spec of machine, cheaper, supports Display Port over usb-c. RAM is upgradeable.
Actually, the specs will be worse - CPUs have moved a lot in the past two years after stagnating for 5. But the build quality and user experience will be immensely superior.£350-£450 will buy you a very nice used laptop/PC with specs much higher the a new machine, 2021s £1000 machine is todays £350-£450 machine.
Actually, the specs will be worse - CPUs have moved a lot in the past two years after stagnating for 5. But the build quality and user experience will be immensely superior.
£450 gets you 6-10 cores now, which is (IMO, of course) a noticeable jump from the 2 and 4 core Latitudes and Thinkpads you'd get for the money.
If that's enough for you - that's great! You get a much better built machine for the money. But the performance delta is there and it's not insignificant like it was in the past. Hex-core Ryzens can be had for very little these days.
If your laptop mostly stays on a desk and plugged in 95% of the time, I'd argue for performance over durability. If you're a true mobile warrior, then the business-class laptop is probably the better buy unless you're truly hurting for more CPU.
I get what you mean there, but in the context of over £1000 they're nearly all 8-10 core now. I'm not sure those sub-1K ones should even count as Latitudes! The high end Inspirons sell at the same price and are suspiciously similar in many ways.Dell Latitudes still come with quad intel's unless you're paying proper money. In fact I was surprised that the latest mobile i3s are still duel core. I know not all cores are equal, but I find it hilarious we send out hex core desktops to users who won't do much more then surf the web. I've got 4 VMs running on a i5 9500t.
I get what you mean there, but in the context of over £1000 they're nearly all 8-10 core now. I'm not sure those sub-1K ones should even count as Latitudes! The high end Inspirons sell at the same price and are suspiciously similar in many ways.
I'm not actually that fussed over the CPU on my work machine. I have an 11th gen quad like the cheap Lats have, and that's fine so long as I have gobs of RAM and a big NVMe disk. I'd probably want to fetch an 8 core Ryzen for my own duty if I actually liked using laptops. I know, it's sad that I follow the market so much just to keep my wife content with hers.
For the end user, I don't think there's a lot in it. The Lats are certainly more durable and get a different support operation behind them though. The shell of both might be aluminium now, but the Lats should (I mean, I haven't checked recently) have a magnesium frame inside that can cope with a lot more beatings. If you're just using the thing and expect a replacement PC when it goes bust and just sync everything you need off of OneDrive anyhow, you probably don't care about any of that.I'd not had much dealings with laptops until I started working here, especially business grade ones. Do the Inspirons feel much cheaper then a Latitude? The boss won't quote for anything lower then a Latitude or OptiPlex so I don't get a chance to play with them. I've also got an 11th Gen Lat for work, I'm quite impressed with it, but when I'm allowed an upgrade I'll probably ask for the 15" one to get a numpad as well as the bigger screen.
Not sure about build quality, Thinkpads are well put together from my experience. I get laptops (mostly) from my son who's a network engineer and when he comes across a pile of machines marked for disposal he asks for permission to take them; he gives them to me (retired from army, nursing and a radio ham) to fettle and I donate them to people who need a machine, Scouts, Army Cadets et al and the thinkpads are well put together and very easy to strip and fettle..£450 gets you 6-10 cores now, which is (IMO, of course) a noticeable jump from the 2 and 4 core Latitudes and Thinkpads you'd get for the money.
If that's enough for you - that's great! You get a much better built machine for the money. But the performance delta is there and it's not insignificant like it was in the past. Hex-core Ryzens can be had for very little these days.
If your laptop mostly stays on a desk and plugged in 95% of the time, I'd argue for performance over durability. If you're a true mobile warrior, then the business-class laptop is probably the better buy unless you're truly hurting for more CPU.
For the end user, I don't think there's a lot in it. The Lats are certainly more durable and get a different support operation behind them though. The shell of both might be aluminium now, but the Lats should (I mean, I haven't checked recently) have a magnesium frame inside that can cope with a lot more beatings. If you're just using the thing and expect a replacement PC when it goes bust and just sync everything you need off of OneDrive anyhow, you probably don't care about any of that.
Personally, I'd try and score an XPS.
It's... Okay for the price.
The reason the Lenovo dock costs £200 is because the laptop doesn't actually support video out over USB-C, so the dock has to have the gubbins for it.
Even then I'd be quite surprised if it had the bandwidth to drive two screens. That's professional-level stuff, and you pay for it. Best to use the HDMI port for one screen, and if that's not sufficient look at some used Thinkpads or Latitudes.