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Pooky

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My mom needs a laptop with a budget of R3000

I don't know whether to get a new one that are all celerons or dual cores or go for a secondhand one with better specs?

The advantage of the new ones is a warranty but sometimes with low specs laptops can be horrible to use.
 
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Not sure where you live, but Turbo Tech in Claremont always have 3 or 4 really good laptops going. They repair laptops and sell on behalf of other people. I have sourced 6 machines for people including 2 for myself

021-6715061 (David). He is Chinese so his English is a bit rough, but is scroupously honest

Make sure the machine has at least 4Gb RAM and runs Windows 7, not 8
 
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chrisc4290 said:
Not sure where you live, but Turbo Tech in Claremont always have 3 or 4 really good laptops going. They repair laptops and sell on behalf of other people. I have sourced 6 machines for people including 2 for myself

021-6715061 (David). He is Chinese so his English is a bit rough, but is scroupously honest

Make sure the machine has at least 4Gb RAM and runs Windows 7, not 8
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Thanks, I am in Durban though.
 
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Roger Moore said:
The new Celeron dual cores are a lot better than the yesteryear Celerons.
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Agreed with this, personally if I had to choose I would get a new laptop rather than a second hand one.

Just make sure to remove all the bloatware once you get it to speed it up or just format it if you want to do it the easy way.
 
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The two in price range are the Asus from Makro or the lenovo g580 from mitabyte.

EDIT: Upon researching, the 1000M seems to win over the 1007U. So the lenovo is better.
 
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