Laptop,advice needed please

[kerching]

My old laptop is ready for retiring and I need a new one

its mainly for work

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anybody got any recommendations of what to get and what to avoid 'like an 80s TV personality!'?

budget is as little as possible since I ain't worked for 3 months!

are DELL any good?

old one is a Sony VAIO which has been great but it's about 10 years old and Windows7

 

[Murdoch]

Take a look at curry’s, they have buy now, pay in 6 month deals

personally I would avoid dell ....

and you do need to decide on a budget too 

minimum 8gb ram

intel 5

would be my lowest spec

like this

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-14s-dq1504sa-14-laptop-intel-core-i5-256-gb-ssd-silver-10203705-pdt.html

 

[ProDave]

I am the forum cheapskate.  Linux on a donated old laptop.  Works plenty faster than any windoze machine I have ever had.

 

[revjames]

I recently had the same dilemma, I ended up with a Lenovo with Ryzen 3 processor and 256gb SSD HD and 8gb RAM with a 15.6" display. My budget was sub £400 and this one came in at £370 from Box. Came with windows 10 too. Been using it a week or 2 and seems pretty good so far. 

 

[Murdoch]

My 4 year old laptop has been getting slow - so last week I upgraded the RAM from 8GB to 16gb - and wow the difference 

 

[Geoff1946]

About three years age I bought an HP.  Working in the electronics business I had always respected and valued their product quality and thought it worth paying accordingly.  

A couple of months out of the warranty the keyboard failed. It turned out unrepairable due to no spares available. I won't touch those again!

 

[Murdoch]

About three years age I bought an HP.  Working in the electronics business I had always respected and valued their product quality and thought it worth paying accordingly.  

A couple of months out of the warranty the keyboard failed. It turned out unrepairable due to no spares available. I won't touch those again!

Sounds a bit like MK fuseboards 

 

[Geoff1946]

Sounds a bit like MK fuseboards 

Oh sh**, I've got one of those too !

 

[Sharpend]

My 4 year old laptop has been getting slow - so last week I upgraded the RAM from 8GB to 16gb - and wow the difference 

mum contemplating upgrading the RAM in mine but I also need to increase storage capacity so may just buy a new one altogether. :C  it’s only about 3years old. 

 

[Murdoch]

mum contemplating upgrading the RAM in mine but I also need to increase storage capacity so may just buy a new one altogether. :C  it’s only about 3years old. 

I need to stay on windows 7 ....

 

[Andy™]

My 4 year old laptop has been getting slow - so last week I upgraded the RAM from 8GB to 16gb - and wow the difference 

about 55 days slow by the look of it

 

[UNG]

I need to stay on windows 7 ....

What requires you to stay on windows 7?

 

[Murdoch]

What requires you to stay on windows 7?

Quickbooks pro 2014

i paid about £120 about 6 years ago - so about £20 per year 

its now subscription based at over £240 per year

 

[clark88]

My Lenovo Ideapad has served me well for 5 years and counting.. I'd recommend looking up cheaper online stores and ordering from there, not from a big store which would charge you for their overheads, advertising etc as well.

 

[Murdoch]

Windows 10

16gb ram

cat 5 port

 ssd if you can afford it

 

[FluXuan]

My old laptop is ready for retiring and I need a new one

its mainly for work

quotes

letters

spreadsheets for my invoices

emails

Amtech ( I know!) FASTEST

t'internet

anybody got any recommendations of what to get and what to avoid 'like an 80s TV personality!'?

budget is as little as possible since I ain't worked for 3 months!

are DELL any good?

old one is a Sony VAIO which has been great but it's about 10 years old and Windows7

Hi I would suggest  installing a debian based linux distro there are plenty and for a older machine  you could try antix linux or even as my name fluxuan linux or if you really have bad resources puppy linux and you might save some money !

Hope it helps.

 

[septiclecky]

Hi I would suggest  installing a debian based linux distro there are plenty and for a older machine  you could try antix linux or even as my name fluxuan linux or if you really have bad resources puppy linux and you might save some money !

Hope it helps.

Will AMTECH work on Linux?

 

[Sidewinder]

Will AMTECH work on Linux?

Not without an emulator, WINE is a popular one.

However you are then running Amtech inside an OS emulator on top of the OS, so slowing things down.

 

[kerching]

Not without an emulator, WINE is a popular one.

I've tried that.....everything went blurry and slowed down

then the following day it did the same again

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