Which Laptop

[Dan Maynard]

You see, I would say don't spend less than £500. A laptop for £300 is the cheapest of everything in every department, it won't last. MacBooks do last, but so do more expensive Windows based systems.

I have spent £1200 on a Lenovo laptop in 2010, it's still great. I spent about the same on my desktop PC plus a £350 graphics card, it has lasted years just like Steve's Mac system that cost £3k.

I'm not particularly against Apple, I think it's good but expensive. Same as what car you choose, do you buy VW or Audi?

One lad I work with has an iPhone, he pays out £85 a month for the latest plus a full whizz data package. Good, but expensive.

[topchippyles]

7 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

You see, I would say don't spend less than £500. A laptop for £300 is the cheapest of everything in every department, it won't last. MacBooks do last, but so do more expensive Windows based systems.

I have spent £1200 on a Lenovo laptop in 2010, it's still great. I spent about the same on my desktop PC plus a £350 graphics card, it has lasted years just like Steve's Mac system that cost £3k.

I'm not particularly against Apple, I think it's good but expensive. Same as what car you choose, do you buy VW or Audi?

One lad I work with has an iPhone, he pays out £85 a month for the latest plus a full whizz data package. Good, but expensive.

Do not talk silly,I have a Hewlett-Packard which i gave my brother 5 years old running windows 8.1 which is an excellent operating system,Just re installed windows 8.1 from a disc which wiped every thing and good as new 

Edited January 15, 2020 by topchippyles

[Dan Maynard]

I'm not particularly against HP either, just that the HP machines I have bought tend to have a lot of HP enhancement software and I don't like that. Each to their own and all that.

Windows 8.1 though, you've definitely lost me. Better to have made the move to 10 which we are recently doing from 7.

[topchippyles]

11 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

I'm not particularly against HP either, just that the HP machines I have bought tend to have a lot of HP enhancement software and I don't like that. Each to their own and all that.

Windows 8.1 though, you've definitely lost me. Better to have made the move to 10 which we are recently doing from 7.

Some older laptops cannot operate windows 10 which is why i used 8.1 

[harvey b davison]

So what exactly should I be looking for in a desktop, that is for usual PC work, plus cad drawing software and photo/video editing software.

[gdh]

17 minutes ago, harvey b davison said:

So what exactly should I be looking for in a desktop, that is for usual PC work, plus cad drawing software and photo/video editing software.

Do you want to do a bit of video editing for fun or 4k semi professional stuff? That's what you'll need most power for.

 

Whatever you're doing I would get an SSD (solid state drive), they've dropped a lot in price and they'll speed up everything from turning on to moving files.

 

If you get one built you can pick and choose components and you'll be anywhere from £500-2000 for top of the range for the main tower.

 

You can play around on the build your own websites if you know what you're doing.

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[Stere]

Something like this:

 

Dell Optiplex Gaming PC, Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM, 480GB SSD, Nvidia GTX 1650 Graphics Card, Windows 10 (Renewed): Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

WWW.AMAZON.CO.UK

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[topchippyles]

34 minutes ago, harvey b davison said:

So what exactly should I be looking for in a desktop, that is for usual PC work, plus cad drawing software and photo/video editing software.

Ever used cad ??

[adrian007]

Ignore my comment if you are doing CAD and stuff.

[Stere]

For  cad u may want  say dual 24" screen also etc