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Are Lenovo brand any good?
Lennie
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My PC of 6 years is playing up - packard bell imedia, vista, 500gb and 4gb memory and intel core 2 quad. 32 bit operating
So im looking for a reasonable tower to replace it, i dont need a screen just the tower system
Are Lenovo any good? esp this one i am looking at?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/lenovo-h500s-desktop-pc-10010869-pdt.html
So im looking for a reasonable tower to replace it, i dont need a screen just the tower system
Are Lenovo any good? esp this one i am looking at?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/lenovo-h500s-desktop-pc-10010869-pdt.html
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It's a very small/slim case, so it might not be easy to upgrade hardware. However, if you haven't upgraded your old PC in 6 years it might be fine.
There are some good deals on PCs without monitors on Dell Outlet.
I dont do much on my pc.... mainly email, internet, watch online tv and downloads and so on... so basically im hoping this will be fine...
Not so sure about the machine you picked mind you, the CPu seems a bit weak, but I suppose for the price it is ok and it will do what you want to do, since you been using a six year old machine to do the same thing.
Plenty of memory on the machine which is good.
For the price it seems ok, even if it is from PC world.
My pc right now is Intel Core 2 quad cpu q800 2.33 ghz
I always get confused with Intel processor, so if my current processor is the one i just listed, how is that compared to what i am thinking of getting from lenovo (from currys/pc world)
I looked at dell outlet, but they are reburbished?
and as for lenovo, they're basically IBM stuff made in china so while IBM's sold the brand off they're keeping to the big blue sort of quality
http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfb1&l=en&s=dfb&brandid=2&fid=1555
I don't know if I'd go that far, the ThinkPad has been steadily decreasing in quality from the IBM days, and the new product lines (like the edge series) are an insult to the ThinkPad brand.
Personally I would have looked at an I-core 3 processor like this one. It has a much bigger disc drive but only 4 gig of ram. Still ram is cheap you can always up grade it later and put more in. If you are looking to store and maybe edit video / images the extra power of the I core 3 will be a better choice. It is really down to what you want to do with it how much disc space you need etc.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-pc-monitors/desktop-pcs/desktop-pcs/lenovo-h520e-desktop-pc-10011086-pdt.html
As I have a 1TB and a 2TB HHD connected I wasn't fussed about a larger HDD internally. I was after more RAM than the "average" 4GB models. This model does not have a HDMI output but I won't be connecting to the TV anyway. As said above it is small compared to the older towers at 14" deep, 12" high and 4" wide. Also it is very quiet as I can only hear it from about a foot away.
Got mine with a student discount so paid £217.
Basically just for surfing, downloading music, movies, tv shows, email, social media and office and storage for photos and so on.... thats all i do on it, but my pc is on everyday for hours and so on
Blooming heck, thinking back I believe I paid around £1000 for it new !!!
Not sure how that will pick up a 2 inch line that appears on the screen & genera slowness/unresponsiveness..
I've got a Lenovo T430s (i5, 8gb) which is a pretty good laptop, well built - and it would be fast if it wasn't for issues with the OS build (its a company machine with a 32bit OS - can't even address half of its physical memory).
After a bit of browsing I've ordered a Lenovo G510 for my son; £330 with an i3-4000M which is about twice as fast as the J2900 listed in the OPs link - in short, the J2900 isn't that great.
The Dell linked earlier with a G3240 or an i3-4150 are leagues ahead - heck, that i3-4150 is close to the speed of my older i7 laptop.
I'm sorry, but an i7 would destroy an i3 with any kind of CPU intensive task, might be close if the i7 was an early U variant. Would definitely feel 'snappier' on the desktop with a fast i3 as opposed to a mobile i7 on battery. But that would be apples and oranges.
Its a desktop (i3-4150) versus laptop (i7-2630QM) processor comparison. The i7 is only about 10% faster, and speed per core is considerably faster on that specific i3. Overall responsiveness is likely going to be better on the i3, and it goes to show how far processors have come in 3 years.
So no, an i7 wouldn't necessarily destroy an i3.
If you want to pose with your laptop in a coffee shop (especially Starbucks) then a Macbook Air is the laptop to get