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Title: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Chubbs on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:11:10 OK, So i know what i want out of a laptop (spec wise), but the question i am asking now is who make then best ones. I dont want another dell, I hear a lot of people rave about Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba. Asus and Acer do some nice looking ones, but are they built well?
I know i have missed some out (HP, Dell) this is because i dont want one, for one reason of another :-) Thanks Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Nemo on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:19:55 I have a Samsung one, it's very good for the price I paid and reliable enough. Toshiba you'll pay a little more for and it'll hardly be aesthetically pleasing but it should work forever.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Samdy Gray on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:25:14 What's your budget Seb?
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: 4D on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:32:49 my Toshiba is good, I recommend them
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Chubbs on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:33:02 What's your budget Seb? between 600-800 i suppose Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: sheepshagger on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:39:21 Lenovo have now taken over as the biggest manufacturer world wide so I guess that must say something about them ?
My last 2 have been Sony and the build quality has been excellent on both - so Sony for me Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Samdy Gray on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:40:42 Should be able to afford to go for slightly better quality like Sony or Samsung for that kind of money. Depends what spec you're after.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Chubbs on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:45:47 Should be able to afford to go for slightly better quality like Sony or Samsung for that kind of money. Depends what spec you're after. Yea, i have found a nice sony one, but as you say, its paying for the brand, so im weighing up my options as to wether to sacrifice the name and get slightly better spec'dTitle: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Bewster on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:45:56 Get a laptop and an Ipad with the £800.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Chubbs on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:46:14 Get a laptop and an Ipad with the £800. I have an iPadTitle: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Bewster on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:46:48 Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Samdy Gray on Monday, October 22, 2012, 10:57:09 Keep an eye out on the Sony outlet for clearance (not refurbished) items. Brand new stock but maybe slightly older models.
https://outlet.sony.co.uk/shop/VAIO-Clearance/ Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Batch on Monday, October 22, 2012, 11:07:14 Hope Sony have improved over the last 4 or 5 years. The ones we have at work are literally falling apart.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, October 22, 2012, 13:51:35 My Uncle has a new, cheaper Lenovo and it's pretty poor quality. I don't know whether it's because it was £400 or whether they're doing a Dell and slapping their brand on cheap laptops to make a few quid.
I've owned 2 Sonys and a ThinkPad. The Sonys were good, but the Lenovo felt like it was hewn from granite. It's the only laptop I've used that comes even slightly close to a Macbook in terms of build quality. My sister has a new Samsung and that's a very solid, seemingly reliable, piece of kit - definitely the equal of the Vaio's I've owned. A friend is convinced Asus are the new sheriff in town, but I've not seen one or touched one. Reading that back it doesn't sound like I've helped at all, but at least my post count is up my one. 8) Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Bewster on Monday, October 22, 2012, 14:00:45 I have a Lenovo home laptop and a Toshiba work one.
Prefer the Tosh to be honest. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: stfcinbmth on Monday, October 22, 2012, 14:53:16 Asus or Tosh
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: LucienSanchez on Monday, October 22, 2012, 15:02:45 My Toshiba died after 12 months (psu blew up the motherboard) and they were really shit at getting it sorted, so I'd never recommend them. My HP is a dream.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: red socks on Monday, October 22, 2012, 16:11:55 My Toshiba died after 12 months (psu blew up the motherboard) and they were really shit at getting it sorted, so I'd never recommend them. My HP is a dream. My 4 year old hp is getting really slow, thinking about buying a Mac book to go with iphone, iPad etc, anyone got one? Are they worth the extra £ or am I just falling for their marketing? Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: SuggWillSugg MBE on Monday, October 22, 2012, 16:27:36 My 4 year old hp is getting really slow, thinking about buying a Mac book to go with iphone, iPad etc, anyone got one? Are they worth the extra £ or am I just falling for their marketing? I'd never go back to a windows laptop when my macbook eventually does die. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:07:17 My 4 year old hp is getting really slow, thinking about buying a Mac book to go with iphone, iPad etc, anyone got one? Are they worth the extra £ or am I just falling for their marketing? They're most definitely worth it. They hold their value as well, so the cost doesn't feature in the way people think. Spend £1200 on a Macbook and after a year it's worth about £800-£900. Spend £400 on a Windows laptop and after a year it's worth 27p. The operating system and the quality of the hardware are simply sexual. I have almost no tolerance at all for Windows when I have to use it nowadays. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: stfcinbmth on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:24:43 My 4 year old hp is getting really slow, thinking about buying a Mac book to go with iphone, iPad etc, anyone got one? Are they worth the extra £ or am I just falling for their marketing? Clean it up and add more memory. Sorted Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: red socks on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:28:29 They're most definitely worth it. They hold their value as well, so the cost doesn't feature in the way people think. Spend £1200 on a Macbook and after a year it's worth about £800-£900. Spend £400 on a Windows laptop and after a year it's worth 27p. The operating system and the quality of the hardware are simply sexual. I have almost no tolerance at all for Windows when I have to use it nowadays. Cheers for advice chaps, my boy is really giving me the hard sell to get one, if they are half as user friendly as the iPad then I'm sure I won't regret getting one, might just go for entry level MacBook at £800ish. Still seems a lot of money! Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: stfcinbmth on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:30:39 My Toshiba died after 12 months (psu blew up the motherboard) and they were really shit at getting it sorted, so I'd never recommend them. My HP is a dream. Asus it is then http://bitsonline.org/news/111-asus-leads-in-laptop-reliability-beats-all-other-competitors- http://www.rescuecom.com/news-press-releases/Computer-Reliability-Report-2012.aspx Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: red socks on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:31:02 Clean it up and add more memory. Sorted That would be a wise move, however I'm not as wise as I should be! :) Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: stfcinbmth on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:39:21 Asus it is then http://bitsonline.org/news/111-asus-leads-in-laptop-reliability-beats-all-other-competitors- http://www.rescuecom.com/news-press-releases/Computer-Reliability-Report-2012.aspx No matter who you buy from there's always a chance you could get a duff one Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, October 22, 2012, 17:42:20 Cheers for advice chaps, my boy is really giving me the hard sell to get one, if they are half as user friendly as the iPad then I'm sure I won't regret getting one, might just go for entry level MacBook at £800ish. Still seems a lot of money! It is. But it's like was pointed out to me, work that out over the 2-5 years you'll use it for. The entry level is now £999 for a 2.5, i5 13" MBP I believe. My friend is after one at the moment and you can pick up a brand new one on eBay for about £850 and a near new one, possibly with 3 years Apple Care for less again. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: jonny72 on Monday, October 22, 2012, 18:15:58 Not sure I'd buy an Apple laptop on eBay, you can get them for pretty much the same price from the Apple refurb store plus they still come with a full 12 month warranty. They had some Macbook Pro 13", originally released at the beginning of 2011 at about £650 the other day which is a bargain. They've currently got the June 2012 model at £850.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, October 22, 2012, 18:27:20 Certainly Apple would be the best option and that's probably what I should say to my friend. I've bought both of mine off eBay though, both under a year old, both perfect. Second one with 3 years Apple Care, which is also a nice piece of mind on something that expensive.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Simon Pieman on Monday, October 22, 2012, 19:19:28 They're most definitely worth it. They hold their value as well, so the cost doesn't feature in the way people think. Spend £1200 on a Macbook and after a year it's worth about £800-£900. Spend £400 on a Windows laptop and after a year it's worth 27p. The operating system and the quality of the hardware are simply sexual. I have almost no tolerance at all for Windows when I have to use it nowadays. Only a posing prick would require a new laptop every year though. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Chubbs on Monday, October 22, 2012, 19:30:21 I've been toying with a mac book but i dont think i will be able to utilise to its full potential.
Im still non the wiser on what to go for, i have a samsung, toshiba and a sony as possiblilities Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Sippo on Monday, October 22, 2012, 19:32:36 You can put dual operating systems on a mac, so you can run windows if needs be. If you know someone with an ac.uk address even better as they get educational discount.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: SuggWillSugg MBE on Monday, October 22, 2012, 19:53:03 Apple are rumoured to be announcing a 13" Macbook Pro with Retina Display tomorrow.
If so i'd be sorely tempted to upgrade, as mine is almost 3 years old and slowing down by the day. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Barry Scott on Monday, October 22, 2012, 20:01:48 Only a posing prick would require a new laptop every year though. Everyone knows Macs are only good for posing though. Shiny, shiny. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Batch on Monday, October 22, 2012, 20:53:25 Only a posing prick would require a new laptop every year though. Buy a cheap Windows laptop and you could buy 4 or 5 of them before spending the same as a mac ;) Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Chubbs on Saturday, October 27, 2012, 19:04:18 Seeing as there was no sure fire winner in the poll i ended up going for a Sony Vaio E Series.
Was quite keep on an ultra book but opted against one as i couldn't find one i liked with a 15inch screen. Cheers for your help Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Posh Red on Monday, December 31, 2012, 19:16:33 My Son is looking to buy a new laptop, and I have no clue as to what level we should be looking at.
He found this one on the Dell site, but I'm not sure whether its good or not. Fire Red Cover, WLAN Dell New! Inspiron 15z Laptop 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3517U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3GHz) 6GB (1x2048 + 1x4096) 1600MHz DDR3 500GB 5400 RPM SATA HDD and 32GB mSATA SSD Nvidia® GeForce® GT630M 2G 15.6 inch (39.6 cm) High Definition (720p) LED Display with Truelife Windows 8 64bit, English http://search.dell.co.uk/1/1/148365-fire-red-cover-wlan-dell-new-inspiron-15z-laptop.html I know we have some clever, technically literate, bods on here so any (sensible) advice would be much appreciated. Cheers Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Batch on Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:08:21 What is he intending to use it for? Might be wrong but the graphics card looks mid range so may not suffice as a games machine.
Like the SSD drive and processor though. I'm sure Si Pie or JJ will be along to put me right if I'm wrong. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Posh Red on Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:34:17 What is he intending to use it for? Might be wrong but the graphics card looks mid range so may not suffice as a games machine. Like the SSD drive and processor though. I'm sure Si Pie or JJ will be along to put me right if I'm wrong. To be fair he doesn't use it a lot for gaming (he plays his xbox for that more). He's just started his first year of 'A' levels and uses it for homework/research. He's not taking any kind of ICT or graphic design, so doesn't need anything top of the range graphics wise. Entertainment wise, he does play football manager as well as playing music & messing about on youtube. He Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: stfcinbmth on Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:43:41 Should be fine I would say. Just make sure he stores all his stuff on the 500gb otherwise it will soon fill up
Comes with Windows 8, is he happy with that? Title: Re: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: sonicyouth on Monday, December 31, 2012, 21:34:54 Football Manager is surprisingly demanding in terms of graphics.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Peter Venkman on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 09:50:25 Sounds a good spec, the graphics are pretty low end but if he only plays FM on the lowest graphics setting it will be fine.
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Posh Red on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:20:16 Thanks for the info, based on the feedback it appears that the graphics might be an issue.
Just as a question, what would be a decent graphics card? Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Coca Fola on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:21:21 I play Medieval 2 Total War on my laptop on the top settings and it runs relatively smoothly. Would Empire Total War be a step too far?
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Peter Venkman on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:34:55 Thanks for the info, based on the feedback it appears that the graphics might be an issue. A 660M nvidia or 7970M ATI.Just as a question, what would be a decent graphics card? Both are pretty pricey though. A full list of pretty good laptop graphics are.....and this is the actual order of speed so top to bottom. GeForce GTX 680M SLI Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire GeForce GTX 590 GeForce GTX 680 Radeon HD 7970 GeForce GTX 660 Ti GeForce GTX 680MX Radeon HD 7870 GeForce GTX 580 Radeon HD 6970 GeForce GTX 675M SLI GeForce GTX 670MX SLI GeForce GTX 680M Radeon HD 7970M Quadro K5000M GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 480 GeForce GTX 580M SLI Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire GeForce GTX 485M SLI Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire GeForce GTX 675MX Radeon HD 7950M * GeForce GTX 560 Ti Radeon HD 6870 GeForce GTX 470 GeForce GTX 470M SLI GeForce GTX 480M SLI GeForce GTX 560M SLI Quadro K4000M Radeon HD 5850 GeForce GTX 675M GeForce GTX 580M Radeon HD 6990M Radeon HD 7770 GeForce GTX 460M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire GeForce GTX 485M GeForce GTX 460 768MB Radeon HD 6790 GeForce GTX 285M SLI Radeon HD 6970M GeForce GTX 670MX Quadro 5010M GeForce GTX 670M GeForce GT 650M SLI FirePro M8900 Radeon HD 7870M Quadro K3000M GeForce GTX 570M FirePro M6000 Radeon HD 8870M Radeon HD 5770 GeForce GTX 550 Ti GeForce GTX 280M SLI Radeon HD 6950M GeForce GTX 660M Radeon HD 7850M Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quadro 4000M GeForce GTX 470M GeForce GTX 480M GeForce GT 650M Radeon HD 7770M GeForce GTX 560M Quadro K2000M GeForce GTS 450 GeForce GTX 260M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro 5000M FirePro M4000 Radeon HD 7750M * FirePro M7820 Radeon HD 6870M Radeon HD 4850 GeForce 9800M GTX SLI GeForce GTX 460M Lesser spec that will not play games at good settings but can cope with most in top to bottom order are..... GeForce GT 730M * GeForce GT 645M * Quadro 3000M Quadro FX 3800M GeForce GTX 285M Mobility Radeon HD 4870 GeForce GT 640M Radeon HD 8790M * Radeon HD 7730M GeForce GTX 280M GeForce 9800M GT SLI GeForce 9800M GTS SLI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 GeForce 8800M GTX SLI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 Quadro FX 3700M Mobility Radeon HD 4860 FirePro M7740 Mobility Radeon HD 4850 GeForce GTX 260M GeForce 9800M GTX Quadro FX 2800M Radeon HD 6775G2 * Radeon HD 7690M XT FirePro M5950 Radeon HD 6770M GeForce GT 635M GeForce GT 555M Radeon HD 5670 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 6850M Quadro 2000M GeForce 9800M GT GeForce 8800M GTX Quadro FX 3600M GeForce GT 445M GeForce GTS 360M GeForce GT 240 Radeon HD 6755G2 * Radeon HD 8770M * Radeon HD 7690M Radeon HD 6750M GeForce GT 640M LE Quadro K1000M GeForce GT 550M GeForce GTS 260M GeForce GTS 160M GeForce 9800M GTS GeForce GT 430 Radeon HD 6830M Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 6760G2 * Radeon HD 6740G2 * Radeon HD 6730M * GeForce 9800M GS Mobility Radeon HD 4830 Mobility Radeon HD 5770 Radeon HD 6570M Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics * Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics * Radeon HD 7520G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics * Radeon HD 7670M GeForce GTS 150M * Quadro 1000M GeForce 8800M GTS Mobility Radeon HD 5750 * Radeon HD 6720G2 * GeForce GT 630M GeForce GT 540M Radeon HD 6690G2 * Radeon HD 6650M Radeon HD 8690M * Mobility Radeon HD 5730 FirePro M5800 NVS 5400M GeForce GT 435M Radeon HD 6680G2 * Radeon HD 5570 Radeon HD 6550M Radeon HD 7590M * GeForce GTS 350M GeForce GTS 250M Radeon HD 6630M Radeon HD 7650M FirePro M2000 Radeon HD 7570M Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Posh Red on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:43:25 Cheers
Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: jayohaitchenn on Thursday, January 3, 2013, 11:34:33 I play Medieval 2 Total War on my laptop on the top settings and it runs relatively smoothly. Would Empire Total War be a step too far? You certainly wouldn't be able to play Empire on top settings. Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Bennett on Thursday, January 3, 2013, 18:31:42 dear clever types, the Mrs wants a sub £400 laptop, does this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/tech-data/B009QZCYU4/ref=de_a_smtd (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/tech-data/B009QZCYU4/ref=de_a_smtd) look good value for monies? Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: Nomoreheroes on Thursday, January 3, 2013, 18:38:46 dear clever types, the Mrs wants a sub £400 laptop, does this I was going to buy one of those for Xmas - They had them reduced further (but they were snapped up in 15 mins). I decided to get a more expensive one after reading a couple of reviews from elsewhere (I went to ask.co.uk and typed in the model name). From what I remember the 'E1' tag refers to it being an 'economy' version. Pretty sure it got slated in a couple of Indian reviews.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/tech-data/B009QZCYU4/ref=de_a_smtd (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/tech-data/B009QZCYU4/ref=de_a_smtd) look good value for monies? Title: Re: Last laptop thread from me, I promise Post by: axs on Saturday, March 16, 2013, 15:17:30 dear clever types, the Mrs wants a sub £400 laptop, does this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/tech-data/B009QZCYU4/ref=de_a_smtd (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/tech-data/B009QZCYU4/ref=de_a_smtd) look good value for monies? Did you go for this? Was it any good? Looking for something similar. |