i did put a link above for this unit, somewhere, but thanks anyway.

Yes, I had a chat with him yesterday and he decided to ditch the giant tablet idea, I think his other half more or less decided for him We decided, that this one would do the job, it have a I3 processor, enough hard drive and ram.
It even have a DVD drive.

I am not sure what they I5 is cheaper than the I3, it have less ram, but ram is cheap these days. Anyway, he ordered it yesterday.

I think they made the better choice and his OH seems happier with the idea. I told them if it goes wrong, I want nothing to do with it as it is just like a oversized laptop


It is powerful enough and should last them for a few years before they need to update again.

Thanks people for all your help.

Looks nice
Lenovo is a good choice.
I have used, rolled out and supported plenty of their Thinkpads and Servers over many years.
That model can have the memory upgraded, but 4gb is plenty for what they are doing.
It will certainly be reliable and Lenovo offer a decent guarantee and support.
Are you going to teach them how to use Windows 8?

I think you've made a good choice there. It looks nice as well as having a good spec.

I have never used a Lenovo, so I am not sure what junk they stick on it, I myself don't normally buy pre-built machines. but i do know that a lot of these machines comes with a load of junk, I remember my Acer laptop.

I think the specs are fine and will do what they want, but now he wants a tablet for himself
His OH told him he can get a tesco value one as a joke, not realising that Tesco have now got a tablet on sale.
I am leaving that to them.


His OH don't like the look of Metro, she tried it on a friends of hers laptop and hated it, she wants it gone and asked if I can get rid of it.

it is no good me teaching them how to use windows 8 as i go straight into the desktop.




It does look good and with plenty of internal storage, I just hope if the drive goes it is easy to replace, not like a Apple IMAC.

You could always download Classic Shell which overlays Windows 8 with a Windows 7 interface. I'm sure there are other similar programs you could use.

i know that, I do that on my own windows 8 machine. It is being delivered on Friday, He had to hold it back as no one will be home until Friday to receive it. Works out ok as I am off work Friday, so can help him sort it out.

The i5 version is sold direct by Amazon.

The i3 is a third party seller chancing their arm by trying to sell it at a vastly inflated price.

Not a fan of these all-in-one systems myself but it looks decent enough.

i did not notice that, i think it will do them for a few years

Nor me to be honest, for the same reason I am not fond of laptops. difficult to fix and upgrade.

One of the reason I stay away from tablets, apart from the fact their Os is pretty limited, even if some people on here do use them for different things. you got them and you can't really add to them or update them. you are stuck with the processor and memory and a lot you can't even update the storage.

Yep.

Which is why I prefer to have (at least) one each of pretty much everything!