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From: SH <i.love@spam.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop replacement
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:16:40 +0000
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On 29/03/2025 14:14, SH wrote:
> On 29/03/2025 09:02, Theo wrote:
>> In uk.d-i-y Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>>> Alan Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chris J Dixon wrote:
>>>>>> My use is mainly MS office applications, no gaming, and I do not
>>>>> anticipate removing it from the home. Therefore I want something
>>>>> which is OK with Windows 11,
>>>>
>>>> HP have one for £179
>>>> <https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=a20jgea&opt=abu&sel=ntb>
>>
>> Urgh, that's junk spec:
>>
>>> 4GB RAM? 16GB or 8GB at a bare minimum
>>>
>>> 128GB SSD?  512GB of you don't want to be forever fussing about free
>>> space for updates
>>>
>>> your eyes might not thank you for 1366x768 screen
>>>
>>> I've found Celerons disappointing several times, maybe quad core
>>> 1.1GHz/2.6GHz ain't so bad?
>>
>> The N4120 is from 2019, so it's 6 years old at this point.  Three 
>> years ago
>> I bought a refurb 2018 Dell Vostro on ebay for £100.  8GB RAM, 128GB SSD,
>> Win11. It had an i5-8250U which is twice as quick as that HP:
>>
>> https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3651vs3042/Intel-Celeron-N4120- 
>> vs-Intel-i5-8250U
>>
>> Just avoid any Pentium/Celeron/N-series machines and buy business refurb,
>> they're much better.
>>
>> Theo
> 
> 
> I bought this...... 16 GB ram, 256 GB NVME, 2 x Display port and 4 core 
> processor and Win 11 pre-installed, ready to go.
> 
> I didnit think it was bad for the money, obviously I had to add my own 
> mouse, KB and monitor and this is running my monitor at 8k :-)

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