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innes_calaninnes_calan Posts: 434
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Hi folks, looking at laptops again! have used a local shop for maintenance before and they have offers below, was looking at the HP 250, apart from the usual was looking to do some simple HD video editing, Yeah! once i learn what to do, bought a chep HD cam a couple of years ago but couldn't do anything with them on the old machine, it just froze at files longer than 20 sec's, obvoiusly the processor wasn't up to speed but it is 7 yrs old, any advice would be helpfull.

http://www.neponline.co.uk/pricelists/laptops.pdf

Also was sent this link by a friend who has a neighbour who runs an IT buisness but the reviews spoke about seeing finger prints quite easily on it must be piano black! wife would hate that.

http://www.johnlewis.com/lenovo-ideapad-300-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-ram-1tb-15-6-black/p2457271

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    StigStig Posts: 12,446
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    You might also want to have a look at Dell Outlet. They had some good offers this week.

    http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?brandId=7&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&dgc=IR&cid=296386&lid=5667687
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    innes_calaninnes_calan Posts: 434
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    Stig wrote: »
    You might also want to have a look at Dell Outlet. They had some good offers this week.

    http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?brandId=7&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&dgc=IR&cid=296386&lid=5667687

    Thanks, if I knew what i was looking for!
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    StigStig Posts: 12,446
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    innes_calan wrote: »
    Thanks, if I knew what i was looking for!

    Choose a budget, sort by price, look at the spec.
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    joshua_welbyjoshua_welby Posts: 9,027
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    You may need an Intel i7 Processor but these can be expensive

    I recommend you try PC specialist www.pcspecialist.co.uk or Currys for laptops
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    mred2000mred2000 Posts: 10,050
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    joshua_welby wrote: »
    You may need an Intel i7 Processor but these can be expensive

    I recommend you try PC specialist www.pcspecialist.co.uk or Currys for laptops

    An i7 isn't essential. The higher spec the CPU essentially just improves the speeds of effect and video rendering. An i5 will be fine. RAM, though, is very much a case of 'get as much as you can afford'.

    Currys are only ever good if you know what you want and they have it for a good price. Even then, though, buyer beware. Their aftersales support is poor.
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    The VonzThe Vonz Posts: 59
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    I have a 2012 13" i5 Macbook Pro and it's SOOOOOOOOO gorgeous - I can't put the bloody thing down!

    I pimped it with a Sandisk SSD drive and 8GB Ram - so fast and responsive.

    Great battery life too!

    Give one a spin - once you go Mac you'll never go back!

    ;-)
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    LandisLandis Posts: 14,859
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    I would say.....go for the best deal. Not for any particular brand. Some people decide to buy a premium brand. For example - Sony Vaio. 6 months later Sony announce that they have sold the Vaio brand. They claim that ongoing support will be available but new Drivers become scarce......and when Windows 10 comes out support is patchy or even non existent.

    You mentioned HP 250. Oddly enough I would say that the best current Laptop deal anywhere is the HP 250 with i5 and SSD.
    http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/hp-250-g4-core-i5-6200u-4gb-128gb-ssd-15.6-inch-windows-10-64-bit-la
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    LandisLandis Posts: 14,859
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    Alternative link to HP 250, i5, SSD.

    http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/search?asug=&w=T6P47EA&submit1=+
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    innes_calaninnes_calan Posts: 434
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    One more question about the HP 250, it has a solid state drive, I get that, it's a drive with no moving parts but not getting it's memory 125GB? isn't that small? but when i think of it when I transferred my docs and imgaes and other files to my 500GB ex drive it only took up 100GB! sorry its grasping the size of memory needed, I expect you could probably upgrade it.
    Cheers, the info so far is getting me there.
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    MaxatoriaMaxatoria Posts: 17,980
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    The Vonz wrote: »
    I have a 2012 13" i5 Macbook Pro and it's SOOOOOOOOO gorgeous - I can't put the bloody thing down!

    I pimped it with a Sandisk SSD drive and 8GB Ram - so fast and responsive.

    Great battery life too!

    Give one a spin - once you go Mac you'll never go back!

    ;-)

    Till you find they've soldered everything to the board and thus you pay 3-4 times the cost for the item now.
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    LandisLandis Posts: 14,859
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    innes_calan wrote: »
    One more question about the HP 250, it has a solid state drive, I get that, it's a drive with no moving parts but not getting it's memory 125GB? isn't that small? but when i think of it when I transferred my docs and imgaes and other files to my 500GB ex drive it only took up 100GB! sorry its grasping the size of memory needed, I expect you could probably upgrade it.
    Cheers, the info so far is getting me there.

    Yes. It is a small SSD. I think we are seeing more of these because Windows 10 has a fairly compact footprint.....maybe 15 gb......so there is still plenty of room for expansion. And for other storage needs? Well....USB 3 External Drives are fast and cheap.

    Yes. You could upgrade it but please note that this model does not have a nice little access flap with one screw. It is one of those where you gingerly prize open the edges until the whole of the back pops off. I don't fancy doing that. I would be buying it to stick with the 4gb RAM and the 128Gb SSD.
    Watch this video.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey6KxAly9cQ&feature=youtu.be

    I think having an SSD is essential for a decent Laptop in 2016 and IMO this size of SSD is just fine.
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    mred2000mred2000 Posts: 10,050
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    If you're serious about HD video editing then you're seriously better off looking for something with more RAM than 4GB.
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