Hi all,
After many (many) months of lurking, time for a post.
I'm looking for a laptop for work. Word processing, spreadsheets, visio, web browsing for the most part. From time to time I go away doing commissioning as well, so a reasonable (4hrs) battery wouldn't hurt. I'd prefer 8Gb RAM, and 500+Gb HDD. No need for an optical drive, in fact I'd probably prefer not to save on weight.
I was looking at this:
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/laptops-notebooks/hp-pavilion-15…
Budget is around the $500-$600 mark at this stage.
Any thoughts, or suggestions as to what else would be around?
Cheers,
I've worked on pretty much every brand of computer. They're all essentially the same in the long run. For what you're doing you won't notice the difference between an i5 and an i7. Or even an i3 probably. You won't notice the difference between a 2.5ghz processor and a 3.0 ghz processor. You might not even notice the difference between 4gb ram and 8gb ram. But i'd still recommend the 8gb just because. future proofing and its not expensive if you do use it.
If you want to discuss the finer points on a high end laptop and its components, where there might be critical advantages (eg dedicated video) thats one thing. for a simple laptop to be used for office work and web browsing. pick something in your price range and minimum specs (like hdd space, battery life) and be done. worry about whether the cpu on one is 10% better than another on a 500$ laptop is a waste of time really, imo.