Laptop under R6000

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The_Mowgs

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What would be the best bang for buck laptop in this price range? This is for someone that finished school last year and wants to buy a machine for daily use such as projects, internet, office, movies etc.
 
On the beginning there is a cheaper one, good enough for daily projects like this for R3000. There is an empty hard drive bay, I suggest to add on the start, extra cost R700 or 250GB SSD: https://www.hificorp.co.za/ilife-zed-air-2-notebook

Incredible has the same with 2 years of warranty.

R6000 budget range is a difficult one, all bunch is coming with low resolution screen or an old stock supplied with obsolete CPU having problems with playing H.265/VP9 movie formats. Not a things a youngster should experience from the beginning. So in my opinion either up the standard to the R9k range or get a cheapo like the above.
 
sajunky said:
On the beginning there is a cheaper one, good enough for daily projects like this for R3000. There is an empty hard drive bay, I suggest to add on the start, extra cost R700 or 250GB SSD: https://www.hificorp.co.za/ilife-zed-air-2-notebook

Incredible has the same with 2 years of warranty.

R6000 budget range is a difficult one, all bunch is coming with low resolution screen or an old stock supplied with obsolete CPU having problems with playing H.265/VP9 movie formats. Not a things a youngster should experience from the beginning. So in my opinion either up the standard to the R9k range or get a cheapo like the above.
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Thanks. Do you know the ZED notebooks?
 
Maybe hit up @Flashgear and see what they've got.

Usually higher end laptops but worth asking if they have anything and their prices are always really good. Not sure where in SA you are tho.
 
The_Mowgs said:
Thanks. Do you know the ZED notebooks?
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Ilife is a young US based company having good reviews. They have a nice range with modern look and fancy features, but only this one has 3GB RAM and an expansion bay for storage. One year ago I almost bought this laptop, but the attendant didn't allow me to unscrew a hard drive cover, so I was pissed off. It is well built, keyboard looked like a quality stuff. Display quality was OK, but I had a suspicion whether it was a true Full-HD resolution as advertised, it looked pixelated similar to 720p resolution. Wndows was reporting Full-HD, I don't know.

There may be new models now, but I didn't see new models from Ilife, they didn't come up with a second blow. There are other CPU's in this cheapo range, you can find Celeron N3400, Pentium N4200, or perhaps a member of a newer Goldmount Plus family: Celeron N4000/N4100, Pentium N5000. However RAM is typically 2GB which I consider insufficient, 3GB should be a minimum for daily use.
 
sajunky said:
Ilife is a young US based company having good reviews. They have a nice range with modern look and fancy features, but only this one has 3GB RAM and an expansion bay for storage. One year ago I almost bought this laptop, but the attendant didn't allow me to unscrew a hard drive cover, so I was pissed off. It is well built, keyboard looked like a quality stuff. Display quality was OK, but I had a suspicion whether it was a true Full-HD resolution as advertised, it looked pixelated similar to 720p resolution. Wndows was reporting Full-HD, I don't know.

There may be new models now, but I didn't see new models from Ilife, they didn't come up with a second blow. There are other CPU's in this cheapo range, you can find Celeron N3400, Pentium N4200, or perhaps a member of a newer Goldmount Plus family: Celeron N4000/N4100, Pentium N5000. However RAM is typically 2GB which I consider insufficient, 3GB should be a minimum for daily use.
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Thanks, will have the guy take a look at them
 
The_Mowgs said:
What would be the best bang for buck laptop in this price range? This is for someone that finished school last year and wants to buy a machine for daily use such as projects, internet, office, movies etc.
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If you could stretch it a tiny bit, something like this would be good for R6700.
https://www.wootware.co.za/lenovo-8...4-1tb-hdd-windows-10-home-black-notebook.html

8th gen, so would be able to handle the latest formats of movies easily. If I have the same model, you can also add some more RAM later:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo...b-81de00vtak-ssd-and-ram-upgrade/td-p/4208699

Personally I have a 5th Gen i3 and do all my UNISA programming and assignments on it. I just added 4Gig RAM and a SSD after a while and it flies.

Would recommend getting an i3.

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For R6000 same laptop with AMD
https://m.takealot.com/#!product?id=PLID52227300
 
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Mist4h20 said:
But you can get an i5 for R6999 ;)
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Or a second had T420 like mine, upgraded to 6GB RAM....which flies for a laptop that came out over 5 years ago....(appropriately configured of course )!:cool:

Cost - v good conditioned 2nd hand off Gumtree for example...under 3k I would guess.
 
I dont think the guy will go for a second hand laptop but will find out. Those Lenovo laptops, which one would be better between the i3 and the AMD?
 
The_Mowgs said:
I dont think the guy will go for a second hand laptop but will find out. Those Lenovo laptops, which one would be better between the i3 and the AMD?
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Mine is an i5-2520M(dual core) 2.5GHZ
Just get more than 4GB RAM if you can...def helps.
 
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