How can you find good laptops to buy online? I’ve read the Laptop Buying Guide on the Wiki, and I know not to buy HP/Compaq (prone to overheating), Lenovo G series (poor build quality), System76 (expensive Clevo/Sager rebrands) or “Consumer/home use laptops”, and to avoid laptops with A4-12xx, A6-14xx, E series by AMD, and Celeron, Atom, or Pentium from Intel because those processors are budget processors. If I go into a shop to ask I know I’ll be ripped off and will be sold shitty laptops, and when shopping online there are plenty of subpar laptops being advertised. I can’t find a decent site for laptops like the “increments” one for Desktop PCs. Where would I go (in the UK) for a decent one, and what else should I look for? Got a budget of around £400.
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>Decent
>£400
Sorry you're not going to get anything decent at least till you hit 500 or more and find a 2gen old high end laptop.
Just to add i bought an HP broadwell-U based laptop other day its pretty ok for £370
I can max out cod4 and blackops 1 @ 720p
Plays guildwars 2 on med and l4d2 ect
but make sure you get one with an Intel Iris 6100 not the shitty HD 530/550 trash.
There is literally a logical increments laptop guide delete this thread then kill yourself.
Don't HPs suffer from overheating?
I guess I poorly worded it, I meant "decent" as in "can use for word processing, internet surfing as some gaming" but not a modern gaming PC at all
Didn't see one in the Sticky, I've started flicking through a few of the ones from a Google search
Also these laptops are priced in $ and there seems to be a 1:1 pricing when I look for them in the UK so they become more expensive
>Don't HPs suffer from overheating?
That was like 10 years ago, the new ones are fine
Bought an ASUS K550 recently for 600$ (so about 450 pounds)
Sold my old laptop for 340$ so I ended up paying about 350 bucks in total for:
>Intel Core i7-4720HQ
>12GB DDR3L 1600Mhz RAM
>1 TB HDD (will chug in an SSD as well soon)
>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
>24 month full guarantee
> FullHD screen
Overall, bretty good deal
Nope not for years
new HPs are pretty alright this is the model i bought
Don't get that model in the uk
but a similar one with i7 4720 + 950m
£700
Hmm, ok then, although it was a "known" thing back then I still have heard of a few cases anecdotally where the laptop overheated but I imagine that could be the case with any manufacturer.
thanks, on the face of it it looks good, I'll take a look at that model and some reviews for it and then keep it mind when shopping around
Unfortunately seems to be out of stock on Amazon and not available for Currys or Laptops direct, maybe it wasn't sold in large numbers in the UK
£700 is out of my price range I'm afraid
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Laptops are in a really shitty place valuewise imo right now, just get a Thinkpad and be done with it. You will just buy on overpriced pile of shit with 400 pounds, whereas you can buy a nice Thinkpad and upgrade the screen with 100 left over if you just settle with a Thinkpad. It all depends on if you want graphics performance or plan to do heavy computing. Most of the time a Thinkpad will serve all basic needs and more. If you want real desktop capability on the move though be prepared to pay much more.
Just went there and it hasn't been updated since 2015.
Guys is $200 a good deal on an used i5 UX21e?
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OP here, I was thinking about doing something similar by getting a Desktop instead and then a cheap thinkpad or something similar for word processing on the go
You can get an x240 on eBay for like £300
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Look at used business laptops.
They're usually very sturdy so buying them used is actually OK.
You can score a third gen Intel i5 laptop in very good condition for like $300 that way
>go to eBay
>set your price range
>search for Latitudes and ThinkPads
>need laptop
>want to buy current xps 15 to replace old xps 15 from 2011
>it comes with Windows 10
Not all latitudes and thinkpads
Go to tpg (thinkpad general) for more info.
OP If you don't need a nice IPS screen or a good graphics processor i highly recommend you go and get a used thinkpad, and make sure it is atleast sandy bridge era.
Will thinkpads be able to run games that aren't too demanding?
Is there even any point in buying a new laptop now when Kaby Lake is right around the corner?
What?
Did I stutter?
Just built a new rig and installed W10 on it. Takes a little bit of tweaking, but aside from me having to reinstall a different wireless driver so it didn't disconnect every 15 minutes, everything is solid.
What are your reservations against it?
It'll take 6 months for the full product lines to be out anyway (or a year and a half for Apple).
So if you need a laptop now, buy one now. If you're still using a Core 2 Duo piece of trash with a dead battery, maybe consider replacing it. If you have something that's Sandy Bridge or newer, I don't think Kaby Lake will be much of an improvement for everyday use but you should get a SSD if you don't have one already.