Laptop recommendation

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copacetic

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Current laptop is as slow as a heroin-infused snail (Celeron 1000M :(), to the extent that I spend more time waiting for it to do things than actually working.

Essentially, I am looking for something that doesn't need to be rocket fuelled or full of bells and whistles, but that can manage lots of Firefox tabs/multiple documents/many emails, etc without gasping for breath.

Any ideas?
 
I truly hope you scientifically tested that statement before using it!
You should mention the quantities of herion infused into the snail, as well as the age, species and gender of the snail!

Do you have a budget?
Try www.laptopdirect.co.za and look at everything near the top of your budget. Honestly brand is irrelevant, just pick on specs.
 
No specific budget, really, but as always, less money for more value, if possible - I am imagining that it's going to be around 8K for something reasonable?

Yeah - I'm not remotely fussed about brand or appearance, I just need something that is not going to choke on 4.5 parallel Word documents.
 
Any new model laptop with 4gb ram will work. The i3 laptop are normal decent. 2x ram models for dual memory improves multitasking.
Checking price on takealot and it not a nice time to buy tech with rand so weak. Bought a i3 laptop in 2013 for R4799 and now new i3 laptop is for R6000 and up.
 
I would recommend getting an i3 laptop for around R5000~R6000, add a 120GB ssd (around R1000) and upgrade the ram to 8GB (2x4GB R400 each?)... This should get you to just under R7000~R8000.
 
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henry1103 said:
I would recommend getting an i3 laptop for around R5000~R6000, add a 120GB ssd (around R1000) and upgrade the ram to 8GB (2x4GB R400 each?)... This should get you to just under R7000~R8000.
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R5000 is hardly enough for an i3 these days.
 
copacetic said:
That does indeed look very good. As for getting what you pay for - True enough, but I would really hope that in order to run Microsoft Word, I could do it without needing to flog a damned kidney.
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Yeah, all I'm saying is that it's a highly commoditised pricing tier, so across the board prices are quite uniform with specifications.
 
What a crap, perhaps you work with 2GB RAM. Unless you are unhappy with performance with one opened document (you didn't say this), Double RAM and do clean Windows installation.
 
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I rate spend budget minus 1.3k and get a SSD with the 1.3k.

It'll be a small one (120gb) but for that usage case it'll make a big difference experience wise.
 
copacetic said:
Well, I am going to have to disagree, given that I am the person using the thing every day...
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You can disagree, but considering you don't know amount of RAM installed on your laptop or disregard this fact, your opinion is not worth much and can mislead others who read this.
 
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Nope. Based on your description Celeron is perfectly suitable. You don't complain on the preformance in general, problem is only when running multiple applications. This points to the lack of memory, it is why I suggested more RAM or cleanup your Windows.
 
It's very slow, regardless of number of apps open. It just gets more so, the more is going on...

Why are you so intent on arguing about my laptop?
 
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