Laptop buying advise

[silverdale]

I need a laptop to do some work from home and have a budget of £400-£450, 2nd hand not a problem 15"-16" , i7 16gb ram 256ssd are a rough guide.
Any links would be great

 

[avid]

Decent laptops but only 14"
Dell Latitude E7250 Laptop Core i7-5600U 2.6Gz 256GB SSD 16GB RAM 14" FHD Touch | eBay

Dell Latitude E7440 Core i7 16Gb RAM 256Gb SSD FHD Touch Screen WIN 10 Laptop | eBay

With Dell warranty till September
INC VAT - Dell Latitude 7480 14" IPS Screen Laptop i7 16GB RAM 512GB SSD | eBay

 

[topchippyles]

HP every time

 

[MH]

Dell every time....

 

[avid]

Never had a problem with dell. I have latitude at the moment and it’s about four years old and it has never missed a beat.

 

[janobi]

Mac everytime . But you wont get what you want for the money you're looking to pay.

We use Dell laptops in work decent enough kit. Whatever you get, just dban the drive, and reinstall windows and you should be fine. Unless it's SSD, as you cannot dban a SSD.

 

[Grimeire]

HP every time

Dell every time....

Just my 2 cents from repairing a multitude of HP and Dell servers. I would always go HP. The beep code/lights are far more informative than dell and are consistent throughout all the models I handled back in the day.

For example while with the Dells 1 beep on a r730 means RAM issue and on a R720 means a PSU. Cuz of that most the answers on the dell forum are wrong and you end up wasting endless time on the wrong thing. Best thing to do when troubleshooting Dells is get the manual of the model you have to identify the beep/light codes and ignore everything you read else where.

 

[chookey]

I think you would have to be a bit of a pessimist to choose a model based on beep codes.

 

[silverdale]

I put buying a new laptop on hold with all that's going on but a friends son has offered me one of these for £450. Bag, headphones, mouse, immaculate condition about 18 months old (sticker says manufacture 11/17)


https://www.scan.co.uk/products/156...4-256gb-m2-sata-ssdplus1tb-hdd-4gb-gtx-1050-t
Only thing I spotted was only 8gb ram but 8gb shouldn't be that dear should it ?

So do you think it's worth £450 ?

 

[spud1966]

Nice laptop well worth £450 !!!!

 

[janobi]

Yeah decent for the price, but i'd definitely stick 16GB in it, more if it can take it!

 

[silverdale]

Will do

 

[silverdale]

Deals done £450 for the lot, I'll bang some more ram in should be ok.

 

[Oggiman]

I bought asos rog i7 18 months ago.
Whatever you do....don't update nvidia graphic card drivers...known compatability problem resulting in dark screen.