New Laptop advice

[PapaGolf]

It's that time of year again, the False Prophet Stolen from the Pagans festival. My lad is after a suitable laptop for connecting his electronic art/design pad to, not so much gaming and doing his homework on. No porn/tv watching is not necessary!! I'm not too fussed about storage capacity as we've got USB harddrives everywhere. RAM should be upgradeable if the cards fitted aren't enough.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Preferably around 400 sovs mark if possible, but may be in the position to sell a kidney. Cheers

 

[single malt]

If he is not bothered about a new one there are some good spec. refurbished ones on ebay most with a guarantee

 

[PapaGolf]

My Brother in Law is a computer geek, but all his recommendations are in the 650-850 quid range. "I'm not a fxxking millionaire you know!!"
I'll have a look at flea bay. I know the Enemy isn't keen, because she's good like that (the fxk@ng c*&t!)

 

[PapaGolf]

Besides Daddy needs a new firearm!

 

[single malt]

Besides Daddy needs a new firearm!

Have a rifle through fleabay listing that may be the closest you get

 

[RBMK]

For decent gaming & graphics you'll need to go more than that.

£800 will get you a decent HP with good graphics. You'll want at least 12GB of RAM and Win10 Pro to make the best of it.

I have a HP Probook i7 with 16GB of RAM which is quick for a laptop with high res graphics to an external monitor but will set you back most of £950.

ETA that laptop prices have gone up since Covid due to increased demand.

Laptops Direct have some good deals, especially refurbished & ex-display

 

[MostlyBollocks]

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I've bought desktops and laptops as well as peripherals from this lot in the past, both in business and privately. Good customer service and never had a machine that gave me problems. Their refurb stuff is mostly end of line that's been returned from retailers rather than had someone's greasy mitts all over it. Has to be sold as refurb as it's been 'sold' once before.

 

[putteesinmyhands]

For decent gaming & graphics you'll need to go more than that.

£800 will get you a decent HP with good graphics. You'll want at least 12GB of RAM and Win10 Pro to make the best of it.

I have a HP Probook i7 with 16GB of RAM which is quick for a laptop with high res graphics to an external monitor but will set you back most of £950.

ETA that laptop prices have gone up since Covid due to increased demand.

Laptops Direct have some good deals, especially refurbished & ex-display

Every time that someone posts that they're looking for a non-gaming laptop for around the £400 mark, within 5 posts the replies recommend spending £800 otherwise games won't play smoothly.

Every time.

Since 2003.

Here's 51 laptops that meet the price criteria. What are the three best ones?

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/315_3226_30328_xx_ba00010671-bv00308565%7Cbv00308566/1_20/price-asc/299-400-criteria.html

Then PG can see if he can find them cheaper elsewhere.

 

[exbluejob]

You get a discount through the Defence Discount Service website for Lenovo, follow the link, Black Friday discount also today. New 14" lappie for £424.99

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[OneTenner]

I got a HP Pavilion DV7 i7 from fleabay during the first lockdown, circa £200 - other than needing a new cover for the HDD (£17) it was like new, good size screen & keyboard, used for non-bleeding edge games (yer, I know, not in the spec.) still working perfectly.

 

[lokiuk]

Might be worth looking around for a 2nd hand Microsoft Surface, the touch screen works well with Photoshop

As long as you get one with at least 8gb of memory they're ace, especially for budding artists

 

[exbluejob]

Argos sell refurbished ones through fleabay argos refurbished laptops | eBay

 

[dogmeat]

It's that time of year again, the False Prophet Stolen from the Pagans festival. My lad is after a suitable laptop for connecting his electronic art/design pad to, not so much gaming and doing his homework on. No porn/tv watching is not necessary!! I'm not too fussed about storage capacity as we've got USB harddrives everywhere. RAM should be upgradeable if the cards fitted aren't enough.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Preferably around 400 sovs mark if possible, but may be in the position to sell a kidney. Cheers

£399.00. Perfect spec.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-IdeaPad-14ADA05-Inch-Laptop/dp/B08NH1TCCT?refinements=p_36%3A9708207031

 

[Just_plain_you]

Some good deals here: Laptops | TechRadar

 

[FrosteeMARIA]

I recent;y bought this for £395 (although currently out of stock at ebuyer)
Asus Intel i7 8GB 256GB Full HD 15.6in Win10 Home
Seems available elsewhere though not far off the £400 mark
Maine reasons for purchase

Big (ish) screen 15.6in (useful for design work?)
Lightweight
Has a proper number keypad

Only downside so far is the webcam is a bit rubbish

 

[maguire]

Morgan Computers are worth having a look at as well. had a lot of stuff off them back in the day when they had their shop next to Piccadilly train station in manchester and never had any issues.

 

[RBMK]

Reasonably priced with decent performance:

Refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G1 Ultrabook Core i5-4200U 8GB 256GB 14 Inch Windows 10 Professional Laptop - Laptops Direct

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Refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad L450 Core i5 8GB 240GB 14 Inch Windows 10 Professional Laptop - Laptops Direct

Buy Refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad L450 Core i5 8GB 240GB 14 Inch Windows 10 Professional Laptop from LaptopsDirect

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Refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G2 Ultrabook Core i5 5300 8GB 256GB 14 Inch Windows 10 Professional Laptop - Laptops Direct

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GRADE A2 - Refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G1 Core i7-4600U 8GB 240GB 14 Inch Windows 10 Professional Laptop - Laptops Direct

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[tazmanian_clogdancer]

Defence discount service offers just that on Lenovo.

 

[endure]

It's that time of year again, the False Prophet Stolen from the Pagans festival. My lad is after a suitable laptop for connecting his electronic art/design pad to, not so much gaming and doing his homework on. No porn/tv watching is not necessary!! I'm not too fussed about storage capacity as we've got USB harddrives everywhere. RAM should be upgradeable if the cards fitted aren't enough.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Preferably around 400 sovs mark if possible, but may be in the position to sell a kidney. Cheers

What do you mean by 'electronic art/design pad'? Are you talking about video editing or static graphics editing?

If it's just static graphics editing it doesn't need to be as powerful as a video editing PC.

 

[lokiuk]

What do you mean by 'electronic art/design pad'? Are you talking about video editing or static graphics editing?

If it's just static graphics editing it doesn't need to be as powerful as a video editing PC.

Depends if they want to use Photoshop, it really helps to have a decent GPU, SSD, and a decent amount of RAM for that