New Laptop Recommendations

Jamie2k9

Currently have an Acer ES571 which is coming up to 6 years old. Hard drive was
replaced 3 years ago. Cost around €550 when I purchased back in 2014.

Right now the battery is poor and the wireless network keeps dropping. It just hasn't been the same since they replaced hard drive.

So I want some advise on purchasing a new laptop in the next 6 months. I only use it for basic net surfacing, Microsoft and streaming online content etc so nothing to heavy.

I have a second monitor (Lenovo) so will likely use this.

Budget wise isn't a particular issue if the product is right but region of 600-700.

much recommended by me but you can see that anyone who bought it is pleased with it.

honor magicbook 14 - 550£ (made by Huawei)

https://www.box.co.uk/products/keywords/honor+magicbook+14/ex/true

use parcel motel etc

quality metal chassis build and components (quad-core cpu, ssd, 8gb ram) , good battery life

Mf310

glasso wrote: »

much recommended by me but you can see that anyone who bought it is pleased with it.

honor magicbook 14 - 550£ (made by Huawei)

https://www.box.co.uk/products/keywords/honor+magicbook+14/ex/true

use parcel motel etc

quality metal chassis build and components (quad-core cpu, ssd, 8gb ram) , good battery life

Have seen you recommend this in other threads seems you know your stuff , I'm currently buying a laptop for college work but also do some video editing and photography so would need it to be fast and run smoothly, would this handle this? Thanks

the magicbook 14 / matebook d 14 is a great laptop but the ips screen although it has good contrast and viewing angles is not very colour accurate for photo or video work. also 4k video editing is a bit tough

I'd go for the lenovo 5 14 on the lenovo site. sign up to the newsletter to wait for a 10% off code

go for the 2.4mm thickness screen option in customise as its the high colour accuracy model

16gb ram is a 40 euro option so a no brainer

I'd go up to the 4700u cpu if you can

the more expensive customise option has the metal body option included. the cheaper one is plastic. (indicated by the "palmrest" option) there is not much in it when you specify the higher-end cpus

https://www.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/ideapad/s-series/IdeaPad-5-14ARE05/p/88IPS501392

with the discount it's a good future-proofed 4k video-editing capable machine

the 8-core 4700u or 4800u will be very effective for video-editing work.

the most intensive video-editing tasks like rendering are cpu dependent (not gpu as a lot seem to think).

Jamie2k9

Never got around to purchasing yet. Anyone tell me if this is any good. I don't need it for anything special. General work, small bit of streming etc.

https://www.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-series/Lenovo-ThinkBook-14-IML/p/XXTBXTM8000

Jamie2k9

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Never got around to purchasing yet. Anyone tell me if this is any good. I don't need it for anything special. General work, small bit of streming etc.

https://www.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-series/Lenovo-ThinkBook-14-IML/p/XXTBXTM8000

screen is a bit dim @ 250 nits tbh

this is better and better value imo (14 inch version)

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=114633383&postcount=2

i.e.

https://www.hihonor.com/unitedkingdom/product/honor-magicbook-14?fromCountry=GLOBAL

use addresspal, parcel motel etc

otherwise same price branded matebook d 14 on amazon