laptop wanted

mjheathcote

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Buy a chromebook!
If you can work with the chromebook ecosystem, no virus issues, constantly updates itself, never slows down, and generally cheap too.
Been happy for many, many years with mine.
 

rockits

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I've got half a dozen brand new HP EliteBook 840 G3 i7/8gb/256gb SSD that will be going very cheap.

I'm not a fan of AVG as a bit too intrusive giving more DoS than a DoS attack!

Webroot is decent at the moment & our current favourite.
 

mjheathcote

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I've got half a dozen brand new HP EliteBook 840 G3 i7/8gb/256gb SSD that will be going very cheap.

I'm not a fan of AVG as a bit too intrusive giving more DoS than a DoS attack!

Webroot is decent at the moment & our current favourite.

How cheap is cheap?!
My daughter could do with her own laptop now well into high school.
 

rockits

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Well not cheap in the complete marketplace as they are corporate/enterprise level ultrabooks with 3 year onsite HP warranty. Will be about 500-550 squid I expect & normally retail at about 850-1000 normally for these kind of models/spec.

If you want a decent enough laptop for a decent price Ebuyer have a good price on an HP 255 G6 i5/8gb/256gb SSD Win 10 Home 15.6" FHD laptop for 375 plus VAT. We have bought a couple in recently for a few customers on sites not need Win Pro & they seem pretty good. Not as robust or well built as the EliteBook's but good for the money.
 

rockits

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If anyone buys/sells/trades any Cisco voice related kit I've got a fair bit I could do with shifting to make some space.
 

rockits

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Indeed! Not so good value at RRP HP price...but Rock price...much better

Not a cheap laptop per se but a cheaper expensive laptop I guess. Mind you I just bought in a 2.5k Razer laptop for a customer. Never bought a laptop that cost 2.5k for some years. I bet Apple owners have done often though!

Got a fair few full Ultraslim Docking Stations to go with them as well.
 

conaero

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Mind you I just bought in a 2.5k Razer laptop for a customer. Never bought a laptop that cost 2.5k for some years. I bet Apple owners have done often though!

Yep, paid £2k for a MacBook Pro top spec in 2007, still being used daily by the family. Never broken, had a new battery about a year ago and the drive was upgraded to SSD about 4 years ago.

Never had a virus, still flies, you get what you pay for.
 

rockits

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Sound like good value longer term then. The SSD & enough Ram make a big difference even on an older laptop. Gives it another lease of life. It is a popular upgrade we do on laptops maybe 2-5 years old still.

Many more viruses around on Mac now though. As they used to be such a small section of the desktop corporate market the hackers/viruses writers would not bother targeting them. Now that they have bigger market share more are coming but they still have a very small market share in the desktop corporate marketplace so still a better option than a Windows machine for less virus/malware issues.
 

conaero

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Agreed Dean, the Mac is a specialist market. Our coders still use PC's and have no issue with that. 9/10 home users simply use office, email and web browser so would advise a Mac. Business, well you have to run the system that suits.

Mind you, macs all run Windows too which gives the best of both worlds backed up by the rock solid Apple engineering. Maybe a consideration.
 

CatmanV2

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Yep, paid £2k for a MacBook Pro top spec in 2007, still being used daily by the family. Never broken, had a new battery about a year ago and the drive was upgraded to SSD about 4 years ago.

Never had a virus, still flies, you get what you pay for.

Mrs Catman's Mac Book Air is 2011 IIRC . Runs the latest OS and is faster than my 2014 model with all its 'security' addons.

C
 

D Walker

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My missus is having problems with both her i phone and i pad,
After the last update, when she tries to connect to our wifi, it wont connect, comes up with "weak security" and I can't find away round it, so she is on out old dongle, yet again a machine making decisions for you,
Went in Apple shop, they reckon there is a fix in the next update.......well thats okay then.......