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Laptop advice

  • 05-05-2015 3:59pm
    #1
    quad_red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks,

    Looking for a new laptop.

    Primary use: Word, excel, some light photoshop.
    Secondary use: some light home video editing
    Budget: up to €1,200

    Screen size 13 to 15 inch.
    Doesn't need to be ultrabook svelte but don't want a mass blunderbus either.

    Was seriously considering the XPS13 but the inability to ever upgrade the RAM over 8GBs sunk it for me - this thing needs to last four years operating well.

    Cheers,
    Quad
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  • #2
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    quad_red wrote: »
    Hi folks,

    Looking for a new laptop.

    Primary use: Word, excel, some light photoshop.
    Secondary use: some light home video editing
    Budget: up to €1,200

    Screen size 13 to 15 inch.
    Doesn't need to be ultrabook svelte but don't want a mass blunderbus either.

    Was seriously considering the XPS13 but the inability to ever upgrade the RAM over 8GBs sunk it for me - this thing needsy to last four years operating well.

    Cheers,
    Quad

    Not sure why the RAM is a stumbling block. Given your usage you won't need any more.


  • #3
    quad_red
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭quad_red


    mordeith wrote: »
    Not sure why the RAM is a stumbling block. Given your usage you won't need any more.

    Always felt like I got a year or two more out of a laptop when I upgraded the RAM.

    Won't 16GB be standard in a year or two?


  • #4
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,278 ✭✭✭mordeith


    quad_red wrote: »
    Always felt like I got a year or two more out of a laptop when I upgraded the RAM.

    Won't 16GB be standard in a year or two?

    8 is only becoming standard in higher end machines from what I can see. Even if a mid range comes with 8 the other components such as CPU and GPU are usually compromised so as to make the extra RAM almost irrelevant. A clean reinstall or quicker hd should give better improvement in an old laptop unless the RAM is being seriously utilized by heavy video editing, gameplay etc.


  • #5
    ithorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭ithorizon


    mordeith wrote: »
    . A clean reinstall or quicker hd should give better improvement in an old laptop unless the RAM is being seriously utilized by heavy video editing, gameplay etc.
    He is right, don't mind the size of RAM.

    For the price of another 8gb rather get SSD.


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