Hey guys,
Has anyone looked into getting a laptop as part of the Ebay 15% deal?
I am looking to get a budget laptop, for Microsoft Office and surfing the net, around the $300 mark.
Any ideas as to what would be the best?
Thanks for the advise!
+1 for the comprehensive information. :)
Yeah, even just for office and net surfing, $300 laptops are going to be very slow. If that doesn't matter at all, that's fine, but if you're going to use this laptop for more that 5 hours a week or so, you'll regret not going to $400 or $500.
I'm also after a laptop- but my budget is $1000.
Priorities are: 14", lightweight/thin, 6hr + battery.
Have a 500GB SSD already, and OS isn't relevant.
Recommendations?
Same here. Still looking for a decent deal on a laptop that will handle Photoshop no problems.
I bought an Asus F35A-BING (or something_ for $297 from Harvey norman which has been excellent.
Only an Intel Dual core- but its' light, and gets 6 hrs battery. Can't beat it for value
Thank you all for your input and advice. Appreciate it!
Have a great weekend!
Forget about ebay, just hawk over the Dell outlet till you see something decent in the Inspiron category.
< $300 dollars will not buy you a very good 'new' laptop — you might score HP Stream 11 or Asus EEEbook or something similar. These sub $300 notebooks usually run a tablet-type CPU or a low end Celeron, have a smaller display, very lightweight and, good enough for a bit of basic word processing or web browsing. But they lack storage, RAM, and processor power. Battery lasts 7 hours or more though, which is the only redeeming factor.
A little over the $300 budget will get you a basic 15" laptop with a higher end Pentium N3xxx series, e.g HP 250 Generation 4.. This will be a budget workhorse type of laptop, but they suffer usually from a weak-arse battery that normally lasts 4-5 hours. These laptops will be more upgradable compared to their smaller, weaker brethren.
Also watch out for the storage on the laptop — they can typically either use a normal HDD or a eMMC memory. You can tell if it's eMMC if the device has very limited storage space — typically 16 or 32GB, in which case these laptops cannot be upgraded since they don't use a typical hard disk. This applies to the HP Stream 11 and the ASUS 11.6 Eeebook. While they lack speed, they make up for it with being very lightweight and low-power (these netbooks can last quite a while on battery).
If it runs a normal HDD, then bonus points as they're normally upgradable with an SSD. If you end up getting the HP 250 as I recommended, it can be upgraded to run on SSD which greatly improves it's performance.