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  1. 24th August 2016, 08:09 PM #1
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    Laptop choice

    There's a 20% off sale on ebay atm. Ends 28th of the month.

    I'm currently using a Tecra A10 15" 2.53 w/4GB + 256GB drive ... running XPPro ... for the last 7 years. Does everything I need and hasn't let me down. It's my 3rd Toshiba and I've been happy with all of them. (Still have the 2x old Satellite Pro 4600 PIII-900 which still work fine).

    I'm guessing I need to update sooner or later, so ...

    I spied a Tecra Z40-B for a for a good price. i7 2.6GHz 14" Win7Pro 1600x900 with 8GB DDR3 + 256GB mSATA with sufficient ports and 4G/LTE. $879.20 delivered.
    New Toshiba Tecra Z40 i7 8GB 256GB 14" SSD GeForce 16S-GM Ultrabook win7/8Pro

    Then someone pointed this out to me ...

    Dell Lattitude E5470 - i5 2.4GHz 14" Win10Pro 1366x768 with 8GB DDR4 +128GB M.2 SATA again with sufficient connectivty and 4G/LTE. $988 delivered.
    Dell Latitude 14 E5470 14" Intel I5 128GB SSD 8GB Windows 10 PRO 4G LTE Laptop | eBay

    Online research seems to point to maybe the Dell being the better unit, but the 128GB worries me a bit, (I have 50GB free on the current A10 256G but I guess it can be upgraded after the fact. Either would run rings around the current A10 ... not sure about going down to a 14" screen. Business & productivity day to day use ... not much multimedia, no gaming. Considering these as they are small and lightweight ... and well priced.

    I'm a bit out of touch regarding hardware these days, so a bit of guidance or reccomendation on these two would be good ... unless I'm barking up the wrong tree ??

    There's plenty of Satellite Pro / Tecra A50's for less coin with same/more RAM and bigger Hard drives (not SSD) which would probably work equally well for my application but the two I've listed above appear to be decent business class units.

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  2. 24th August 2016, 08:53 PM #2
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    My 2c worth - stick with Toshiba. After 3 of their excellent laptops, I was talked into a Lenovo (=IBM). Terrible decision, and next one will be back to the fold. HP are supposed to be good, but I don't like their operating system. Asus also supposed to be good value according to one of my IT guru mates.
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  3. 25th August 2016, 08:33 AM #3
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    whatever you decide on,, stick as much ram as you can into it,,,
    a new i3 will run a work laptop fast enough for decades,, lack of ram will show its age quickly!
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    8GB ram is all you'll need, unless you're editing photos/movies or doing 3d modelling.

    A decent graphics card will help if you're doing any 3D or multimedia.

    I've found the things that affect speed the most are the RAM (min 4G and the hard drive. 5400rpm drives are awefully slow, and SSD's arent that expensive.

    I just had a 500GB Samsung evo850 SSD put in my work laptop. The drive cost $240. Well worth it.

    Nothing wrong with the old toshiba, provided you can upgrade the RAM & SSD.
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  5. 25th August 2016, 11:13 AM #5
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    Go with Dell. They are great quality.
    There is a reason a lot of businesses and commercial setups use fleets of dell desktops laptops and servers.
    Dell makes a few low end laptop product lines that are rubbish but the new latitude lineup is quality.
    I just purchased a dell latitude for home use, with 256gb ssd, 8gb ram and the newer i5 processor and it is great.
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  6. 25th August 2016, 05:42 PM #6
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    It's funny how opinions on laptops can vary so much!

    Like Gavin having a dud Lenovo, and Finnius have a good DELL.

    I've had 3 or 4 Lenovos (well, they started out being called ThinkPads when they were IBMs) and had an excellent run with them. Then I swapped to DELL and didn't like that so much (no "G-SPOT" mouse, and quality not as good as IBM). Then I went back to Lenovo again with my current Laptop.

    One thing I'll mention that we've had a bad run with, and that is a Microsoft Surface. We've had 3 replacements under warranty, including an upgrade from a Pro2 to a Pro3, and they always seem to give problems. Our latest Surface Pro is flaky wrt the stick-on keyboard, which often fails to work, and every so often it just goes off into lala land. Great idea. Poor execution.
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  7. 25th August 2016, 05:47 PM #7
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    [QUOTE=Disco-tastic;2578341]8GB ram is all you'll need,
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    Haha. Laptop choice Sorry for the blanket statement!

    I read [url = "http://www.techspot.com/article/1043-8gb-vs-16gb-ram/"]this article[/url] a while ago. Thats where my information comes from!

    Cheers

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    Yes Fluids,, anything with an i3, SSD and lots of ram. [ just. dont. skimp. ]
    good for another 5 years,,

    or this?
    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asu...led,32498.html
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    All good advice so far.....


    I'd lean to i5 over i3 anyday.....

    But then I bought an SDV6 over a TDV6 too
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