OMO nearly new laptop

[NTECUK]

Bought a x police HP elliet.
Windows 7 and is good enough for the£50 it costs plus a new SSD.

[johnnyrod]

How does that work then?

[Craigg]

whats your budget?
i can recommend you something, but need to know what you want to spend, as spec's can vary massively!

[johnnyrod]

Not sure really, what would around £500 get me?

[NTECUK]

Originally Posted by johnnyrod

How does that work then?

The other half had a friend in scouts.
They had a contact of a firm who had to destroy the hard drive.
They had a few good one's.
Must be something like that for other clients.
Maybe flebay an idea.

[Craigg]

Dell Latitudes are a solid purchase, Latitude being their premium business range, so they are much better built than the consumer stuff you would buy in PC world etc.

14" option, something like this is a very good laptop for the price: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1080p-Dell...Y-hga#viTabs_0

Decent i5 processor, sufficient ram, and a 256gb SSD

if you want something a bit bigger here is a 15" option, also comes with a better CPU and more ram, but without an SSD(its something you can add at a later date if you want):

send them an offer at 500£ and you will likely get a deal...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Latit...AAAOSwmCVY~hjq

New and on budget. This is the sort of thing I was talking about.

http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/vo...14-5468-laptop

[johnnyrod]

Plus 20% tax but yes in the right range! Thanks everyone for your help, a mate also said go for i5 as i3 is underpowered, and go for SSD as it makes a big difference - I've never used SSD. Craigg what do you reckon of the ebay ones? I'd rather see something in the flesh (if possible but goes without saying) but are they likely to be trouble free?

[maviczap]

You've always got Paypal protection these day, plus Ebay is more in the buyers favour these day.

SSD's are pretty dam reliable, no spinning disc's to cause trouble, and SSD's are much faster than old HDD's

The ones Craig suggested look pretty decent

*both sellers feedback scores are good too.

Originally Posted by johnnyrod

Plus 20% tax but yes in the right range! Thanks everyone for your help, a mate also said go for i5 as i3 is underpowered, and go for SSD as it makes a big difference - I've never used SSD. Craigg what do you reckon of the ebay ones? I'd rather see something in the flesh (if possible but goes without saying) but are they likely to be trouble free?

Okay wasn't expecting the tax hit... this neck of the woods always includes tax.
Yep, I wouldn't suggest an i3 - i5 is the sweet spot here. SSDs are fairly reliable, but as always, have a backup. I'd suggest a one or two disk NAS (eg WD My Cloud or similar connected to your router) and automatic backups if you don't want to lose it. SSDs don't like to be thrashed so keep it light and clean (services and bloat), be mindful of the disk activity light and it will last.