On Potential New Laptops

[danieldwilliam]

I'm thinking of buying a laptop.

I'm currently using MLW's old laptop but it's become so rickety that it is barely usable.

Perhaps it is fixable. Perhaps not.

Mostly I need the laptop so I can do work in Office applications, Excel and Word mostly and web-based collaboration tools like Trello and Slack. I may play the odd computer game but that's not my main interest.

I do not think I want a Mac - nothing else in my house is an Apple product.

I have screen mirroring at home so a huge screen size is probably not needed. If I need something embiggened I can borrow my 40 inch TV from myself. I'm more likely to find myself working on trains or at borrowed desks or in meetings.

I'm not made keen to spend millions on a totally top spec machine

Any suggestions for make or model or vendor?

Comments

[andrewducker]

If your needs are:
"Mostly I need the laptop so I can do work in Office applications, Excel and Word mostly and web-based collaboration tools like Trello and Slack."

Then you cannot buy a (Windows) computer which will not do this.

I wouldn't spend more than £450-£500 on it, personally.

Playing the odd game would push the specs up, depending on the game, because most PC games tend to be aimed at the higher end. On the other hand, most games that are three years old (or older) should be fine.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think £400 is my upper limit to be honest.

Perhaps a little more if I can persuade MLW that her business needs to provide a laptop to its finance director.