Uni Laptop

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To be used for browsing, MS Office and watching Netflix.

Budget £300, but if it's spectacular, may go to £350.

I have compared laptops at around £300 - £350 with different CPU's and the best performing CPU at that price point seems to be AMD Ryzen 3 3200U.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/1165298

I have also found a Ryzen 5 2500U at £360

https://www.cclonline.com/product/h...ooth-microsoft-windows-10-7dc73ea-abu-297304/

The Ryzen 5 appears to perform better, despite being a 2017 chip.
The second one has an additional helping of RAM and an SSD so should be quicker and smoother running.

What do you think?

Any others I should consider?

Thanks.
 
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With that budget, I'd go second hand.

We still have a MacBook Pro 2012 model running well, that does all of the above and is pretty quick too. I can't think of any windows machine I've had that lasted more than 3 years. You can get office licenses on eBay for under £5.
 
Only clowns buy stupidly expensive Macs to play with. Whatever you get go with Windows because 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999 of the rest of the world uses Windows. No less than 8Mb of RAM and a sizeable SSD. Don't partion, if you want separate storage use folders (better) or a separate external SSD hard drive or big USB flash drives (best).
 
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I have macs and they are fabtastic. However, they stop being supported making them useless and websites move on and no longer support the older models - like gmail.
Macs last about 7-8 years where its security is top and everything runs smoothly, which isn't too bad. I've a macbook pro too, from 2012 and it's very clunky with some websites not being accessible.
 
I agree with the Mac lads.
Mines still going after about 7 years.
It has Windows Office that was slightly different but works well.
However I'm dreading replacing it as they are so expensive.
 
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pete: would that 360 quid machine suffice?
nojob: which Tosh? Satellite?
 
Solid State Drive, decent Ram and a fast Processor.

After buying two SSD machines I wouldn't go back.
 
securespark said:
nojob: which Tosh? Satellite?
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My kids went through a few laptops untill I splashed out on Toshiba satellite's (L655) for both. They are still going now, son was at uni for 5 years, first 2 laptops lasted a year, the Toshiba is still going, as is my daughters, both laptops at least 6 years old. As for current models, that would be down to your requirements. One thing to check is that a lot now don't have DVD drives.
 
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