Laptop recommendation

molly09

Hi

I am wondering could someone recommend a laptop with a good amount of storage space and fast. I will be using it mainly for work (Ms word, PowerPoint, excel ) and watching movies.
Or what kinda things should I be looking out for? Would it be cheaper to get off amazon or in a shop like Harvey Normans ?
Basically any advice really appreciated

kodistar

Hi there

If your just looking for basics you will need a big hardrive about 250 gig and 2 gig of ram for basics for advaced icore 5 processer 8 gig of ram ssd hardrive 500 gig r terabyte,windows 64 bit and good grapics card.

Depends what you what to do on it.hope i helped.

riclad

You don,t need a laptop with a fast graphics card ,
for work or watching movies ,
no need to pay extra for a gaming laptop with ati or nvidia card.
One with
a standard intel graphics card will be fine .
Check has it got hdmi out for easy connection to a hdtv.

kodistar

If you read what i said for a advanced laptop i said good grapics card i also gave basic specifications its entirely up to the person on what they want to do on laptop.

riclad

One with a non ssd drive is better , get one with a 15 inch screen,
4gig ram,
this is a good one .price is very reasonable.
http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-30-C50118TOSHIBA 15.6" CI3 4GB 500HDD standard hard drive

RRP : € 429.95

On Promotion

Limited Offer : Save €60.00

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€ 369.9 model no
C50-B-118

kodistar

I dont like powercity myself but harvey norman wont let you go wrong and usully have better laptops main thing to look for as i said good processor and about 2 to 4 gig of ram ask guys there they show you what they have and choose what you like happy hunting.

riclad

Get a laptop with 4 gig ram,15inch Wide screen,hdmi out .500gig hd.
harvey norman have sales on laptops every now and again.
i bought a hp laptop 100 euro off normal price,EX display model . in power city ,in 2010 .
it , no media remote control,no hp manual, in the box it as new .
its still works fine,
ex display laptops for sale ,
But you have to ring them up or go to shop to get info on ex display laptops.
display model is as new , maybe missing ,manual ,or original box.
Or original laptop box maybe creased,the laptop still has 2 year warranty .
you can get manual ,online from laptop maker website,support.
Powercity is as cheap as amazon in my opinion,
I think power city have basically the same models as harvey norman ,
in my experience .

http://www.harveynorman.ie/computing/laptops

i bought a hp laptop,sony ,toshiba laptop, new

i find toshiba the best built ,designed and tougher than other models .

molly09

Thanks so much for all the advice just saw this on curry snd wondering is it a good deal/laptop

Any thoughts!!


HP 15-ac151sa 15.6" Laptop - Silver
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Intel® Core™ i3-5020U Processor
Memory: 8 GB
Storage: 2 TB
Up to 8 hours battery life
HPK 15-AC151S A
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Thanks in advance

ice.cube

Have a look at this one from Lenovo, seem like a great deal.

1TB Drive
8 gigs of ram
Full 1920 x 1080 screen
AMD A10-7300 processer

509 euro

http://shop.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/lenovo/z-series/z50-amd/

Ant695

molly09 wrote: »

Thanks so much for all the advice just saw this on curry snd wondering is it a good deal/laptop

Any thoughts!!


HP 15-ac151sa 15.6" Laptop - Silver
Product
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Save €300.00Black Tag When it's gones its gone
Was: €799.00
Now: €499.00

Quantity:
Available for Home Delivery
Available for Order & Collect

Product Details
Windows 10 (pre-installed)
Intel® Core™ i3-5020U Processor
Memory: 8 GB
Storage: 2 TB
Up to 8 hours battery life
HPK 15-AC151S A
http://www.currys.ie/Images/Currys/productimages//Large/147024.jpg

Thanks in advance

For what you want it to do and the price that looks like a pretty good deal all round.

For your purposes no need for anything fancy 4gb ram would be the minimum recomended to anyone for a new laptop but 8 would be great.

An ssd would be nice for boot times but windows 10 like windows 8 before it isn't that slow to boot on a hdd anyways and having 2tb of storage is alot and means not having to try and upgrade it down the line if you store alot of photos music or videos on it.

All in all a good spec that will do everything you want it to.

swervring

Hi,

Sorry to interrupt your thread but rather than start a new one with the same title...

Boyfriend looking for a basic laptop, solely for internet use. His only requirement is that it have HDMI. I've found these two black friday deals & was wondering could anyone advise if these are completely useless, or if not which is better? Thanks a million

http://www.currys.ie/Product/hp-stream-11r050sa-116-laptop-blue/334885/401.0.0

http://www.lidl.ie/en/Offers.htm?action=showDetail&id=33115

Thanks

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The Stream11 has a slightly better processor. Battery life better too.