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Originally posted by kaiser78 View PostDon't buy Dell - their laptops are so slow to startup and switch between applications, even with the larger RAM sizings.
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Don't buy Dell - their laptops are so slow to startup and switch between applications, even with the larger RAM sizings.
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Too late now but that's actually not a bad shout. I might look that route when I need to upgrade, for my sporadic laptop needs
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If considering used/refurbished then may as well get the best business laptop in the world, the Lenovo Thinkpad Twhatever for a couple hundred quid.
Plenty available from reputable sources with a 12 month warranty. Can easily upgrade the ram and bang in a second SSD.
Only worry would be state of the battery if need to use it unplugged regularly. If mostly plugged in then a moot point.
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Originally posted by rogerfederer View PostIf you do not need a professional microsoft office installation then look no further than mint linux with one (or all) of the various office substitutes. I was very impressed with the latest iteration of these office suites.
Mint is based on ubuntu, but unlike ubuntu is easy to adapt when coming from a microsoft windows environment. It's also very speedy on modern laptops.
You can try it using a USB live disk, to get a feel for it. My family all use this now and are glad to be rid of the windows resource hog.
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If you do not need a professional microsoft office installation then look no further than mint linux with one (or all) of the various office substitutes. I was very impressed with the latest iteration of these office suites.
Mint is based on ubuntu, but unlike ubuntu is easy to adapt when coming from a microsoft windows environment. It's also very speedy on modern laptops.
You can try it using a USB live disk, to get a feel for it. My family all use this now and are glad to be rid of the windows resource hog.
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Originally posted by original PM View PostYou can get pretty tiny 256 Gig usb drives nowadays - which should sort all storage needs
my kids have both got 128 GIG ssd's in their yoga's not even close to hitting storage limits - mainly because everything the watch /do is in the cloud /online.
Office is not cheap mind you.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostAfter some debate on form factor - I'm old-school and like 15" "proper laptops" she likes cute little ones - we went safe and got a Dell Inspiron 13". i3, 1080p, only 4Gb RAM (but user upgradeable), 128Gb SSD. The main toss-up was 128Gb SSD or 1TB HDD but I've seen how much faster SSD is; 256Gb would've been perfect but we plan to centralise our data so don't need much local space.
my kids have both got 128 GIG ssd's in their yoga's not even close to hitting storage limits - mainly because everything the watch /do is in the cloud /online.
Office is not cheap mind you.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostAfter some debate on form factor - I'm old-school and like 15" "proper laptops" she likes cute little ones - we went safe and got a Dell Inspiron 13". i3, 1080p, only 4Gb RAM (but user upgradeable), 128Gb SSD. The main toss-up was 128Gb SSD or 1TB HDD but I've seen how much faster SSD is; 256Gb would've been perfect but we plan to centralise our data so don't need much local space.
Trim W10 down to just the stuff you need, or it'll take up 40+ Gig.
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After some debate on form factor - I'm old-school and like 15" "proper laptops" she likes cute little ones - we went safe and got a Dell Inspiron 13". i3, 1080p, only 4Gb RAM (but user upgradeable), 128Gb SSD. The main toss-up was 128Gb SSD or 1TB HDD but I've seen how much faster SSD is; 256Gb would've been perfect but we plan to centralise our data so don't need much local space.
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