Cheap laptop time - eBuyer vs. eBay vs ...
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Anyone got a useful opinion on this?
Mrs C is keen on Windows, I've just got my hands on a Win8 machine at work and it sucks (interestingly, Moore's Law followers, they've swapped out my 3.4Ghz Core i7 for another 3.4Ghz Core i7 after 3 years. No doubt intel will tell me that the new one is actually loads faster?)
I digress.. Windows 7 or 8 (pref. 7 especially at the cheap pricepoint I'm after, up to £350).
Bearing in mind my comment that my new PC doesn't appear to be any faster than my old one, why should I spend £300 on a new laptop (and you don't get much CPU for that) when for £130 on the 'bay you can get Core 2 Duo on a s/h machine. According to the likes of CPUBenchmark they're just as good as a typical new Celeron. And the AMD APUs get really low scores. I suspect the AMDs may have decent graphics abilities though.
So for the kind of untaxing workload this thing will get, is it worth shelling out for a new machine when the second hand ones are, on the face of it, just as quick?
Mrs C is keen on Windows, I've just got my hands on a Win8 machine at work and it sucks (interestingly, Moore's Law followers, they've swapped out my 3.4Ghz Core i7 for another 3.4Ghz Core i7 after 3 years. No doubt intel will tell me that the new one is actually loads faster?)
I digress.. Windows 7 or 8 (pref. 7 especially at the cheap pricepoint I'm after, up to £350).
Bearing in mind my comment that my new PC doesn't appear to be any faster than my old one, why should I spend £300 on a new laptop (and you don't get much CPU for that) when for £130 on the 'bay you can get Core 2 Duo on a s/h machine. According to the likes of CPUBenchmark they're just as good as a typical new Celeron. And the AMD APUs get really low scores. I suspect the AMDs may have decent graphics abilities though.
So for the kind of untaxing workload this thing will get, is it worth shelling out for a new machine when the second hand ones are, on the face of it, just as quick?
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go to telco and buy the best value laptop they have.
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