New laptop with a £300 budget?

julianhj · 6 Apr 2019 at 08:02

My sister and I would like to get my parents a new laptop for basic tasks - we’ve come up with a £300 budget but with so many options available, and a lack of knowledge of that end of the market I’m not sure what to go for - any recommendations?

Hades · 7 Apr 2019 at 21:41

If they/you are OK with a used laptop then you could get something like a Thinkpad T series. You would get a far better laptop this way than a budget new one.

wiiija · 8 Apr 2019 at 05:15

If you can stretch to 350 search for HP 255 G7, Ryzen 3, 8gb ddr4, 256gb ssd, 1080p screen, its a great machine for the price.

Atari · 8 Apr 2019 at 17:42

Hades said:
If they/you are OK with a used laptop then you could get something like a Thinkpad T series. You would get a far better laptop this way than a budget new one.

This. I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd gen for £160 the other week, fantastic laptop - 4th gen i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and it's got a WQHD Touch screen and 3G/4G modem built in.

Will be a lot better than most new laptops at that price point I reckon.

julianhj · 9 Apr 2019 at 19:41

My sister is keen to buy new (against my recommendation), so I'll have a look at the HP, thank you.

LewisRoy · 16 Apr 2019 at 10:02

HP Chromebook laptop are reasonably priced and quite fast. would recommend

Esco · 3 May 2019 at 18:27

Atari said:
This. I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd gen for £160 the other week, fantastic laptop - 4th gen i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and it's got a WQHD Touch screen and 3G/4G modem built in.

Will be a lot better than most new laptops at that price point I reckon.

Was this an eBay deal?

Looking for something similar myself

Atari · 3 May 2019 at 22:55

Esco said:
Was this an eBay deal?

Looking for something similar myself

It was bud. There's quite a few on there, a bit harder to find the WQHD screen but the FHD ones aren't bad either.