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I have a Dell Vostro, and it's fine as well. Maybe Shard has a dud.
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I have a Dell Vostro, and it's fine as well. Maybe Shard has a dud.
Francois Marais
Senior Member
The 5th gen of Core I... Drool... Is a very good piece of hardware.
Less power ect ect, and you get a 99 chipset.
4th gen CPU's are also great, but will not go or tell a user to go for the 3rd gen CPU's
8GB RAM, and at least 500GB HDD or 256SSD drive.
SSD is one major piece of gear I can't go without. My Mac runs a SSD, and so does my two Windows PC's. Will have to think hard to go with a normal platter again...
Less power ect ect, and you get a 99 chipset.
4th gen CPU's are also great, but will not go or tell a user to go for the 3rd gen CPU's
8GB RAM, and at least 500GB HDD or 256SSD drive.
SSD is one major piece of gear I can't go without. My Mac runs a SSD, and so does my two Windows PC's. Will have to think hard to go with a normal platter again...
Francois Marais
Senior Member
The Acer Aspire E15 series runs a piece of **** trackpad. Elantech or something like that, and hope the person who decided on that, would get a cramp in his arse
OK, I should say GOOD laptops use the Synaptics. Dell, HP, MSI, Lenovo, Apple, Gigabyte and so on.
Anyway trackpads/touchpads suck. Anything serious needs a proper mouse anyways.
Francois Marais
Senior Member
falcon786
Honorary Master
Why is nobody addressing the elephant in the room?
If she watches videos surely screen resolution and quality become a big factor in choosing...make sure the laptop has a full HD screen or at least 1600x1050 pixels screen resolution as bare minimum.
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
Dell Inspiron 3543
•15.6 inch LED Backlit Display with Truelife and HD resolution (1366 x 768)
falcon786
Honorary Master
Thats too low in my opinion and you will notice the lack of quality in HD videos since you sit much closer to your laptop than you sit to your TV.
My old laptop from 10 years ago had that resolution and my newer 15 inch has 1600x1050,the difference in video quality is very easily noticeable.
You do know that the HD I'm referring to is proper HD (1920X1080) and not marketing HD or HD ready which is the lowly 1366x768?
Lets say she is watching a movie with a res of 1280x536, its not going to look bad at all, now to find a cheap 1080P i5 laptop is going to be almost impossible.
falcon786
Honorary Master
Yes I agree 1080p laptops will be hard to find in that price range that's why I suggested 1600 as minimum,should be possible.
Think the Lenovo Thinkpads come with that resolution I5's.
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
Veyron786
Well-Known Member
Posted this link in an earlier thread but it seems to match the requirements at a decent price.
http://www.loot.co.za/product/lenovo-ideapad-z5070-15-6-core-i5-notebook/syph-3080-g390
falcon786
Honorary Master
That looks pretty neat,even comes with a small SSD to help speed things up and full HD display.Seems like its priced great for what you're getting.
Maverick Jester
The Special One
Agreed with this.
Maverick Jester
The Special One
Just check with them that it does include the 1080p display- seems that it's optional as per their site.
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
That looks pretty good. Thanks!
AfricanTech
Honorary Master
faniebraai
RIP
How does those hybrid drives work, I have a laptop with one, but that 8gb portion isn't big enough to install anything on it. Or I'm completely misunderstanding it's use.
Isnt it meant to be a cache?