Brun

The old boys Lappy is coming up to 5 years old now and he wants something a bit newer and quicker and with a battery that lasts more than 3 minutes.
He doesn't do anything other than surf the net and store photos so something fairly basic is the order of the day. 80g HD or bigger - plenty of ram - dvd/cd writer and if possible, an LED screen at 15" or bigger. His current Toshiba has been ok but has had a few niggles and due to a couple of people i know having issues with Dell he would rather stay away from these two brands.
Any pointers?

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

I've been looking at lappy's recently after the demise of the cheap lappy I bought off here a hundred years ago LOL

I was looking at the Lenovo and the Asus CX54 ....... both at £370, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HDD and the usual Intel processors. The Lenovo has an i3 and the Asus a dual core (sandybridge) I think.

I like the look of the Asus with quite a solid looking aluminium chassis, you can pick it up at one corner without the feeling it was going to break. The Lenovo was solid looking too.

I have previously bought HP / Compaq but fancied a change

Shaun

Brun

My Sister has an Asus netbook which seems quite good. I'm behind the times on all things computer. What's better, i3 or duel core?

The thing that is really gonna get the old boy is the operating system change. After 5 years he still is only understanding Windows XP on a basic level. If i could put my hands on an XP machine i'd be happy but it would mean going second hand which he won't have

jura11

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Depends which i3,if its older i3(i3-3x0M),still is good,but for those money you can get new Sandy Bridge(i3-2xx0M) which are great in multi thread applications such as Photoshop,Maya etc.

If you have doubts post here link and i'm sure here people happy help you with decision


Jura

Brun

Me and the wife have ran a Samsung NC10 for the past 3 years so had a bit of a Samsung hunt and came up with this. Seems ok?

jura11

iTrader: (7)

They're using older Intel duo core CPU,which will be for you at some point little bit slower

Have look on this selection,maybe help

This one using new Sandy Bridge i3 and price seems is good

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/samsun...84730-pdt.html

This one using new Sandy Bridge i3 and price seems is good

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/lenovo...77745-pdt.html

This have older i3,but 8GB RAM

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/acer-a...11788-pdt.html


Really depends on what you would like to use your laptop,if its just for browsing on Internet,should be OK your selected,but if you are looking to do few more things where you will need pure CPU power plus if its possible have multi core/thread like photoshop,graphics etc. i would go with new sandy Bridge or even older i3

Jura

Brun

Thanks Jura - I've had a good search around for the Sammy you have highlighted and the price seems very good. Gonna take the old boy down PC world and see if he can get on with Windows 7. Good luck to him - i can't stand it

jura11

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Windows 7 is not the bad OS,yes sometimes is annoying,but with few tweaks is great OS

I've used for few years 64bit XP which has been OK for my jobs,but at the time now W7 is good as XP

I've before Vista 64bit,which has been biggest mistake,which i reverted to the XP installation



Jura

Brun

Ended up with this one. Set it up for the old boy today. Seems to be just what he needs. Thanks for the input