cheap laptop or good

hornetstinger

hornetstinger

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I was thinking if getting a £650 laptop (Acer aspire 8gb ram 512gb SSD Ryzen 7 ips screen)

However thinking about it it will only be used for internet browsing, copy files across LAN/to usb hd, managing music in foobar, P2P,email) and setting up universal remote, maybe room EQ etc

So I was thinking would something like LENOVO IdeaPad Slim 1i 11.6" Laptop - Intel® Celeron™, 64 GB eMMC, Grey
For about £200 be ok?

I would use a USB hd for P2P
I know W10 enterprise uses about 25gb as just installed that in a budget hp machine fitted old 64gb hp celeron dual core which once loaded is not too bad in speed.
 
It’ll probably work, but it’ll be fairly tedious.

How much RAM does the ideapad come with? It won’t be much fun if it’s constantly paging out to a slow eMMC.

On the other hand, if it WILL work, I can’t imagine it’ll use much power!
 
Another option is chapewst ideapad but it only has 128gb SSD.

I know windows uses about 30gb, on the other machine plenty of space on a 64gb SSD However that is a desktop simple to upgrade to 256gb if needed.

If laptop SSD is fixed and unremovable then might not be good idea to get 128gb SSD .


Also issue of ram, if it's soldered in and no space slots.
 
That ideapad shouldn't be sold as a Windows device tbh and I wouldn't give it to my 9 year old to use.

Spend a bit more, get a proper quad core or more CPU, M.2 SSD and if possible 2.5" SATA bay.

For £650, the Acer seems decent value tbh
 
d_brennen said:
That ideapad shouldn't be sold as a Windows device tbh and I wouldn't give it to my 9 year old to use.

Spend a bit more, get a proper quad core or more CPU, M.2 SSD and if possible 2.5" SATA bay.

For £650, the Acer seems decent value tbh
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I've seen hp 17". IPS screen, optical bay, SSD and HDD, 16gb ram.

CA3500
 
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