Laptop Experts

[guest100718]

So good advice is to buy a really cheap one with a very mediocre processor which will be as slow as a dead sea slug 2 years down the line. Im a PC engineer with 15 years experience and I deal with 2 year old slow AMD units all the time and trust me, people are really not happy when you tell them that there is not much you can do to fix it and if they had spend another £50 at time of purchase, they could have got an I3 and not have the problem.

buy cheap, buy twice is ever true

All I am saying is that if you can stretch your budget to an Intel CPU you will be doing yourself a favour, if the budget wont reach, then you just have to accept that the laptop wont last as long, how is that poor advice?

Who said suggested he should by a really cheap one? Just pointing out that you dont need to spend a bomb if all your doing is basic stuff.

And drop the slow as a slug in 2 years BS. My work laptop is a 6 year old Dell that still does fine. My son is running 10 year old dekstop with an AMD XP3000 in it.

Machines end up crawling because users fill them with malware\bloatware\spyware, have tons of crap running at startup thay dont need and generally just dont look after them.

 

[CMAC]

Who said suggested he should by a really cheap one? Just pointing out that you dont need to spend a bomb if all your doing is basic stuff.

And drop the slow as a slug in 2 years BS. My work laptop is a 6 year old Dell that still does fine. My son is running 10 year old dekstop with an AMD XP3000 in it.

Machines end up crawling because users fill them with malware\bloatware\spyware, have tons of crap running at startup thay dont need and generally just dont look after them.

agree with this- work PC is 6 years old and doing fine for office and various applications.

Used my wifes old win vista laptop last night- now that was slow compared to todays boxes but after I did updates and deleted cr@p it ran everything just fine with the caveat of maybe 10 seconds to load a programme but the ram is poor