Laptop For Basic Farm Used

You'd easily get a new laptop for that price in Curry's or Harvey Norman - check their adds for back to school . Check the Dell website also.

That said, I prefer a desktop with a printer for farm accounts

whatever you buy make sure it has a SSD/flash drive and at least 8GB of RAM.

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Won't get a new one of any use in that price range. Plenty of sellers on adverts.ie, for sub 300 you will get decent laptop. One thing you have to factor is they no longer come with MS Office and if you have to buy that then you are looking at 140 for the home version. There are cheaper alternatives though, but they take a bit of getting use to.

Try and get at least a 10th gen Intel I3 or above or a Ryzen 3200g or above. also get look for windows 11.

Used Thinkpads tend to be the best value, plentiful and are usually well spec ex corporate laptops.

You don't need eset. Defender built-in to windows should do the job.

Try and find at least i5 or Ryzen 5 .( the processor) atlast 8 Gb and 256 Gb disk .. But you could double both for comfort. ( and go i7/ryzen7 or i9/ryzen9) …. IF you are hard on laptops or mobiel a lot , try maybe one of the better class e.g HP elitebook or Lenovo Thinkpad.. Tend to have metal frames, anti spill keyboards… Not guaranteed in all circustances. If you are any how outdoor, get a foam sleeve too… They might try and upsell you a touchscreen…. Never found any use for it, but maybe if you are mobile a lot looking at documents, user manuals etc.. avoid any upsell on graphicss.. standard is good enough even for light cad — bit of gaming, videos etc..

I find smaller laptops are great for mobility, i.e. you will bring it more with you than leave it if its small..

Your local phone semi- reputable phone shop wont see you stuck.. You might save a few pound buying yourself, but shop will surely give a few months warranty and help with any questions on backip or email setup and vouch for the battery… Lot of **** scams out there in the second hand adds are better avoided.

refurbed.ie is a good site, but I think premium prices. I just use reputable retailser on ebay ( good protection) or amazon.co.uk … BUT WATCH that you dont get screwed for EU import VAT and that the keyboard is UK and not German or Norwegian…(very common for slightly better deals)

Too old, too expensive.

This guy in blanchardstown has good selection. I seen 10th gen i5 intels for under 150

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But Op asked for a basic device to do a couple of spreadsheets/letters per year. He doesn't need a Ryzen 7 or 9 processor as someone suggested. My work Laptop only has a Ryzen 5 FGS!

Both those models are 5 years plus old, now still be a good machine and likely to do all you need to do, but just be aware of that.

Good corporate model, used in lots of companies, lot of spares about for it. Easy to upgrade too.

Agreed, just wanted to make sure OP was aware. I'd have no issue recommending either of those models as a general work horse. Fairly robust cases/ frames too!