Recommend a good laptop?

[MASSEY]

I usually just get acers for 300 an odd quid, i recently just bought a https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/len...-940-15.6-inch-windows-80sr008ruk/version.asp

It's a lenovo with what seems the latest everything for a reasonable price, it came today but I'm not impressed, the screen is very dull, it reminds me of those crappy school monitors. I don't mind paying more.

Also, it has a screen resolution of 1536x864 which i also find annoying, I'm used to the 1366x768

I basically want something capable of doing multiple things and fast, can use photoshop ok etc, something better suited for business-related activity.

Any ideas?

These are the specs of the laptop I'm sending back.

Screen size 15.6in
Processor manufacturer Intel
Processor Model Intel Core i7
Processor Number 6500U
RAM Memory 8GB
Storage 1TB
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Operating System Windows 10
Optical Drive DVD-RW
Battery Run Time 5hours
Touchscreen Non Touch
Graphics GTX 940
Warranty 1 year warranty
Display and Keyboard
Screen size 15.6in
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Touchscreen Non Touch
Convertible Device

Back lit keyboard

Physical
Width 38cm
Depth 26cm
Height 3cm
Weight 2.1kg
Colour White
Processor
Processor Model Intel Core i7
Processor Number 6500U
Clock Speed 2.5GHz
Turbo Speed 3GHz
Number of Cores Dual-Core
HyperThreading Support

Memory RAM
Capacity 8GB
Memory type DDR4 SDRAM
Form factor SO-DIMM
Used Slots 1
Free Slots 0
Storage
Hard drive capacity 1TB
Optical Drive DVD-RW
Graphics
Graphic Type Dedicated
Graphics Manufacturer NVIDIA
Graphics card GTX 940
Graphics Memory 2GB
Operating system
Operating System Windows 10
Battery
Battery Time 5hours
Warranty
Manufacturer Warranty 1 year warranty

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Dell xps if money is no issue otherwise HP g6 I7 full HD with ssd for under £550

 

[Mr D]

I've an old Dell laptop from last century still running. Its slow and I've had to jack in protection for it to get on the internet but for offline things its still perfectly fine.
My current and last laptop have both been Lenovo, nice enough and they do last a few years despite the abuse they suffer. And they are cheap.

 

[MASSEY]

Dell xps if money is no issue otherwise HP g6 I7 full HD with ssd for under £550

So this one? https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/hp-...inch-windows-10-professio-1wy37ea/version.asp

Whats the hard drive memory? Doesn't seem to say, but other than that seems to be similar or better spec to the one i got.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

This one with i5 , which is more than enough https://www.ebuyer.com/793851-hp-25...sbBVrb3PREDZBWAiOcYOwEL40yuBK-wBoCHnQQAvD_BwE


https://www.ebuyer.com/793847-hp-250-g6-i7-laptop-1wy37ea-1wy37ea-abu


I recently bought a Dell XPS from those guys and was surprised, the unit was mint not s single scratch https://www.nrgit.biz/collections/laptops

Only bad thing about HP their hinges are crap and break very easy. Keep in mind you may wanna opt in for more RAM 16GB, most modern laptops have the ram soldered to the mainboard and you cannot upgrade anymore. Upgrading the solid state is straight forward.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Ideally you want the i5 or i7 cpu and a full 1080 lcd with min. 8GB ram 256GB SSD drive should be fine for most business people. OS + Software shouldn't exceed 100GB all in that leave you with another 140GB for documents.

 

[MASSEY]

Ideally you want the i5 or i7 cpu and a full 1080 lcd with min. 8GB ram 256GB SSD drive should be fine for most business people. OS + Software shouldn't exceed 100GB all in that leave you with another 140GB for documents.

Im looking at videos of them on youtube and these hp ones seem to have the same sort of dull screens.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Well, if you want better screens you wont be disappointed from Dell XPS but they are on the higher end of things but worth it in my opinion.

 

[MASSEY]

im currently looking at https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/compu...-15-7570-15-6-laptop-silver-10169893-pdt.html gonna get it i think tbh. Dell seems best yes.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

I think they price they are asking is fine £849 for the specs also check here: https://www.nrgit.biz/collections/laptops/inspiron?sort_by=price-descending

 

[Chi Doan]

I love my old lenovo laptop also. Cheap and durable.

 

[Tigris]

Ideally you want the i5 or i7 cpu and a full 1080 lcd with min. 8GB ram 256GB SSD drive should be fine for most business people. OS + Software shouldn't exceed 100GB all in that leave you with another 140GB for documents.

Agreed IT technician here, not sure if that makes my opinion count? Lol. SSD (Solid State Drive) is the way forward. They used to be around £1 per GB but as the prices have come down its definitely a must. Speed difference and reliability over a standard hard drive is night and day.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

I would doubt that any SSD is very reliable compared to a hard drive to start with and they have high failure rates. Much more complex and wear and tear can become a problem.

 

[Tigris]

I would doubt that any SSD is very reliable compared to a hard drive to start with and they have high failure rates. Much more complex and wear and tear can become a problem.

We find solid state drives to be much more reliable especially in laptops. A lot of people don’t turn the laptop off. They just close the lid and put the laptop in there bag causing damage to the hard drive as the discs inside are still spinning. SSD for Windows / software and standard hard drive for storage

 

[Nico Albrecht]

From a point of data recovery and some important facts from our lab for general information. Do not be fooled SSD are reliable and they are a completely different battlefield.

Modern SSDs can’t be recovered by chip-off means. It’s not a problem to read the NAND, but there is no way forward after that because it’s all encrypted. For SATA SSDs, the breakdown of issues is very roughly as follows:


10-20% - read instabilities, handled by any SATA DR imager.

30-40% - firmware failure. PC-3000 SSD ( $5000 ) can solve somewhere around 50-75% of these problems. Given that SATA SSDs are already not being manufactured much anymore (in favor of PCIe SSDs), I highly doubt anyone but Ace Lab will put in the necessary work to solve SATA SSD firmware issues.

40-50% - electronic failure. Either minor components going bad, or main controller burning out. If the controller burns, generally nobody in the world can do anything. If minor components fail, they can be replaced – this is a major boost to recovery rate, as I’d say 2/3rds of electronic failures are minor components going bad.


PCIe SSDs are completely different – about 20% of those which are unrecoverable by any software have read instability problems, and this is handled only by a DDI PCIe SSD Add-on ($3000) right now. About 70% have more serious firmware and/or NAND issues – nobody in the world can do anything about those now. And 10% have electronic failure.

 

[Tigris]

From a point of data recovery and some important facts from our lab for general information. Do not be fooled SSD are reliable and they are a completely different battlefield.

Modern SSDs can’t be recovered by chip-off means. It’s not a problem to read the NAND, but there is no way forward after that because it’s all encrypted. For SATA SSDs, the breakdown of issues is very roughly as follows:


40-50% - electronic failure. Either minor components going bad, or main controller burning out. If the controller burns, generally nobody in the world can do anything. If minor components fail, they can be replaced – this is a major boost to recovery rate, as I’d say 2/3rds of electronic failures are minor components going bad.


PCIe SSDs are completely different – about 20% of those which are unrecoverable by any software have read instability problems, and this is handled only by a DDI PCIe SSD Add-on ($3000) right now. About 70% have more serious firmware and/or NAND issues – nobody in the world can do anything about those now. And 10% have electronic failure.

Yeah, best to keep stuff you would need to recover on a HDD then things like programs and windows on the SSD as you would tend to need to reinstall them on the local machine anyway if anything happened If drives comes in and they are badly damaged we have to send them off to a data recovery center.

A lot of people learn the hard way as they don’t want to pay the recovery fee but they don’t have any backups.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Feel free to ask me for an estimate if you ever have a drive come in. I love raid systems and as a good advice any 2TB & 3TB Seagate Barracudas are bin able products.

 

[Talay]

I have an otherwise decent laptop with a low power i5 and I wouldn't go that route again. Even with decent RAM it cannot do intensive multitasking and will need replacing sooner than necessary.

Not a recommendation but definitely look at more grunt than you think and don't be swayed by battery life.

 

[Anderz]

I would recommend figure out what the induvidual specs should be and then find your laptop. You got so many options available but the higher the specs the more business minded like HP or Lenovo.

 

[Carly Swinson]

Hmmm don't judge your laptop on the very first look, have you tried increasing the resolution and contrast of your laptop screen? The specs you have pasted here are very impressive only thing this laptop is missing is a SSD drive. Give it some time it will prove to be a good laptop on the long run.