The misses wants a laptop for just googling, emailing and looking at pics.....

She has seen this.... http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops...#tab-customize

Opinions would be welcome.....

 

after the crap Tablet I had of theirs, I wouldnt touch them.

 

Buy her a Tablet if that's all she's doing. Even an Android one would be better than a £250 laptop.

 

Lenovo laptops are fine. Our parent company in Denmark buy hundreds of them so they wont be awful. For £250 you wouldnt get a much of a tablet neither, ipads, galaxy 10" tabs etc would set you back more and are a pain to print from etc.

 

Just setting up 15 Lenovo Helix 2 convertibles. Impressive bit of kit, but I agree, a tablet may be more suitable.

 

she has a tablet, so is a laptop she wants.

 

So for the price does it look ok, or is there another better laptop for similar dollars?

 

No for that sort of money you wouldnt get much better, a refurbed core i3 at best.

 

Ive got a few brand new dell laptops for sale for similar money as the lenovo one you linked to, but being dell they're much better quality.

Ive sold a few to lads on here, albeit the more expensive ones.

Pm me if your interested and ill get you specs for the ones in your price range.

 

Anyone (i.e. computer manufacturer) who even considers things like CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS or Lenovo shipped lappies with man-in-the-middle ad/mal/bloatware (let alone actually implements it) gets put on my "NEVER, EVER, EVER BUY THIS SLURPING CRAP" list forever! No IFs, no BUTs, no second chance - they BLEW IT!!

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Just got one of them from work, not bad a tad sluggish dos of the core m and out bloats SOE but pro keyboards nice, pen holder sucks though wish it was in body like old one

 

They all do it! Buy any mainstream brand and it will have all manners of ebay, macafee,gaming bloatware installed. Hp is one of the worst, their "security" features are a joke to remove, 5 other apps before biometrics can be removed.

 

My company has issued me with 2 Lenovo laptops - T420 running windows 7 and T440P running windows 10. Personally I don't like either of them - they are fit for purpose business laptops, but I would not buy either of them for my own use.

I would carefully check what the spec means when it refers to click pad - my T440P has a strange touch pad in that you depress the whole rectangular touchpad to left click - the whole touchpad lowers by a couple of mm against a sprung resistance. There is a clumsy and unreliable method to achieve a right click, but it is a frustration rarely working as it should.

 

I have T450, it's nice enough, light weight, but I wouldn't buy one. (work laptop)

If it's not for work (i.e documents) then a tablet is the way to go and I'm going to say iPad here as I've not been able to surpass mine with the others I've tried.

 

Did you actually read the articles?

This isn't just the pre-installation of commercial crapware, this is overwriting Microsoft Windows files VIA THE HARDWARE (so a clean install from a CD won't get around it) and installing fake certificates that can compromise your HTTPS traffic (e.g. for Internet banking).

Not acidentally, but intentionally

mb