Laptop replacement

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My SO wants to replace her laptop.

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DELL Inspiron i5 3537 Notebook (R8 500 Incredible connection)
Intel Core i5 2.6GHz 3MB Cache 2 Cores
4GB RAM

Dell Inspiron i5 5548 2.20 GHz (R9500 - Dion Wired)
Intel Core i5
8GB RAM 1TB HDD


Dell Inspiron 3542 15.6Inch Intel Core i5 (R8500 - Takealot)
4GB RAM 500 GB HDD 2.7 GHz


LENOVO - Flex215 - Touch BLK Core i5-4210U (R7500 - Dion Wired)
4GB RAM 1.7Ghz 500 GB HDD


Lenovo Ideapad G5070 Intel Core i5 (R7160 - Takealot)
2.60 GHz 2.6Ghz 1TB


LENOVO - LENOVO I7 (R9500 - Dion Wired)
6GB RAM 1TB HDD


What would you choose?
 
Just bang an SSD into the existing one, i3 CPU's are already much, much faster than any browsing, videos or spreadsheets need.

Possibly more RAM, depending on how much it has now.
 
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Makro has some good deals on their laptops.

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I would buy this one.
 
satanboy said:
Watching videos, surfing and some excel spreadsheets....she wants it to be faster (and no I don't mean the internet) than her current Dell i3.
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if its big spreadsheets I'd go for 6GB or 8GB of ram. i5 is ok unless you are encoding the videos but it doesnt sound like you doing that.

But more ram, yes. SSD as an option is also nice :)
 
satanboy said:
Screen is a write off. So that needs to be replaced too. She rather wants a new one.
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In that case....

I'd go with the one Rickster suggested, same as this one you suggested:

Dell Inspiron 3542 15.6Inch Intel Core i5 (R8500 - Takealot)
4GB RAM 500 GB HDD 2.7 GHz

But for 500 more you get double the hard drive and double the ram
 
The Dell's touchpad is really ****ty, I've got one - 3542, but I think they've all got the same Chassis.

Great Laptop if you're going to attach a mouse, if she needs the touchpad she will be frustrated.

They've got some "pressure sensitive" tech on it, but it basically means the whole thing is lose and very often wont pick up movement and scrolling.
 
Shard said:
The Dell's touchpad is really ****ty, I've got one - 3542, but I think they've all got the same Chassis.

Great Laptop if you're going to attach a mouse, if she needs the touchpad she will be frustrated.

They've got some "pressure sensitive" tech on it, but it basically means the whole thing is lose and very often wont pick up movement and scrolling.
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Weird. We both have Dell's and their touchpads are fine.
 
faniedry said:
In that case....

I'd go with the one Rickster suggested, same as this one you suggested:

Dell Inspiron 3542 15.6Inch Intel Core i5 (R8500 - Takealot)
4GB RAM 500 GB HDD 2.7 GHz

But for 500 more you get double the hard drive and double the ram
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Which one is R500 more?
 
Shard said:
The Dell's touchpad is really ****ty, I've got one - 3542, but I think they've all got the same Chassis.

Great Laptop if you're going to attach a mouse, if she needs the touchpad she will be frustrated.

They've got some "pressure sensitive" tech on it, but it basically means the whole thing is lose and very often wont pick up movement and scrolling.
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satanboy said:
Weird. We both have Dell's and their touchpads are fine.
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Pretty much every single laptop out there uses the same touchpad (internally) these days - Synaptics. The only difference is in the material they cover it with, and make the buttons out of.
 
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