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| Thread ID: 146295 | 2018-06-22 05:05:00 | What to look for in buying a new laptop?? | stu161204 (123) | Press F1 |
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| 1450867 | 2018-06-27 22:23:00 | I have been thought 3 laptop battery's over the last few years and the last two battery's I have bought for the laptop have not worked very well or have given up very quickly (with in a month or so after buying it). . where the batts genuine Acer or generic. Lithium batts have a finite shelf life, It may be they were old stock and just too old (despite being unused) Batt(genuine) and DVD will be about $150ish, so that may be better spent on a new laptop, given the age of the one you have. With new laptops, you can get the small SSD swapped out for a larger one if you buy from the right place . 500Gb SSD's arnt expensive now. Some laptops can take 2 HD's , its just a matter of finding one. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1450868 | 2018-06-27 22:57:00 | "My budget is about $1,000 or less." from your thread in Geekzone, quite important info. :-) |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1450869 | 2018-06-28 00:58:00 | My budget is about $1,000 or less yep important information missed out ;) Under $1000 you will be lucky to get much with a larger SSD. 128GB generally. If you wanted to get larger drive then something like this from Harvey norman. www.harveynorman.com.au Its a compromise between what you are able to spend and the highest spec you want. Lower Price means less options. Look at most of the laptops with 512GB + SSD, and 8+ GB memory, you are closer to $2000 + (often over). |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1450870 | 2018-06-28 02:08:00 | Yeah .. with $1,000 the best you may get is what Wainui said. $1k is really your typical surfing the web kinda computer, the link above has a i7 so that's a bonus. They are consumer laptops. The one linked has no SSD. It's a 1TB HDD. I have a desktop for photography. So my laptop is casual use. I got a ex leased second hand Lenovo and put upgraded to a SSD and 16GB. Via Pricespy. This has a i7 with a 128GB SSD and a 1TB HDD www.playtech.co.nz Pricespy but note that the cheaper ones only has a i3 CPU pricespy.co.nz |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1450871 | 2018-06-28 02:27:00 | Second hand? I was just online and I saw this - business class laptop W model range which is their largest laptop. i7, 500GB SSD, 16GB RAM. www.trademe.co.nz Thee are others also. Maybe get something cheap and then up the RAM and SSD. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1450872 | 2018-06-28 06:24:00 | Some of the laptops I have been looking at have both a SSD drive and a normal HDD. Would that cause any performance issues? |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1450873 | 2018-06-28 06:31:00 | Some of the laptops I have been looking at have both a SSD drive and a normal HDD . Would that cause any performance issues? That would be fine . The issue would be if the laptop only had 1 drive and if you opted for a normal HDD . Windows would be installed onto the SSD and your data files would be on the larger HDD . If you wanna make it a bit quicker you could also store your image and video files temporarily on the SSD . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1450874 | 2018-06-28 11:26:00 | I don't think anyone would regret having at least some SSD even if its paired with a mechanical drive, unless you have all day to wait for boot or updates. I think 8Gb is a safe minimum based on what you say. | Ofthesea (14129) | ||
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