Notebook for R5000 or there about

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cheese_za

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Hey guys & gals.

My cousin has R5000 and is looking for a laptop. I suppose we could go R5500 if need be. But she is looking for the best possible notebook for this amount.

I quick shopmania search gave me this:

Packard Bell EasyNote TK85-GO-485SA Notebook, Packard Bell, EasyNote TK, TK-G0-485SA, Notebook, Black, 15.6 Inch 1366x768 Slim LED Glare Display, Intel Core i5-480M Processor, 4GB DDR3 Memory, 640GB Hard Drive, DVD R/W, Intel HD 4500 Graphics, GB LAN, WiFi, HDMI, 6-Cell Battery, Windows 7 Basic 64-Bit, MS Office 2010 Starter Edition, Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, 1 Year Collect Repair Return Warranty

For R5 199.

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Brand is not of that much importance.

Also, if this is the best deal, has anyone dealt with Shop63.co.za before? Can they be trusted?
 
Check out the Esquire specials thread, they have some laptops on sale tomorrow only.

Bear in mind though that R5 000 won't get you very far with laptops, but you should be able to get something good for very basic use...
 
TJ99 said:
R5 000 won't get you very far with laptops
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LOL! Last week I bought a laptop for that price that outperformed i7s in our office in everything except gaming. The secret is buying a low cost sandy bridge laptop and adding an SSD to it.

RAM size and IO are the main bottlenecks in modern laptops.
 
Gnome said:
LOL! Last week I bought a laptop for that price that outperformed i7s in our office in everything except gaming. The secret is buying a low cost sandy bridge laptop and adding an SSD to it.

RAM size and IO are the main bottlenecks in modern laptops.
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Would you like to elaborate a bit more on what you bought and did to it and total cost?
 
I can't recall the exact Laptop I bought, it isn't with me here at work.

However this is the SSD: http://www.wootware.co.za/patriot-pyro-120gb-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html

The procedure is, I bought a Core i3 Sandy Bridge Laptop (they are the laptops that have CPU model numbers starting with 2, eg 2460M). Then I bought the SSD.

Then I removed the hard-drive and put in the SSD.

The cheapest one I have built so far was R5K which included the SSD. That laptop isn't on sale @ Esquire anymore however (was an HP laptop).

The second one was a Lenovo Laptop (also from Esquire on special and no longer available). That one cost R6K however.

The R6K model is quite hecticly fast, when Windows 7 loads, the logo of Windows 7 doesn't finish forming and then suddenly you are on the desktop. Total boot time is probably 10 seconds (if that).

Everything starts up instantly.

If you don't game, don't bother with huge CPUs or GPUs, get a model with a screen you like and get an SSD.

That is my opinion...
 
HP ProBook 4530s XU015UT
Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5363
ASUS Eee PC 1015PX-SU17-BU (Blue)
Acer Aspire AS1830-3595
Lenovo ThinkPad X120e
 
Gnome said:
I can't recall the exact Laptop I bought, it isn't with me here at work.

However this is the SSD: http://www.wootware.co.za/patriot-pyro-120gb-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html

The procedure is, I bought a Core i3 Sandy Bridge Laptop (they are the laptops that have CPU model numbers starting with 2, eg 2460M). Then I bought the SSD.

Then I removed the hard-drive and put in the SSD.

The cheapest one I have built so far was R5K which included the SSD. That laptop isn't on sale @ Esquire anymore however (was an HP laptop).

The second one was a Lenovo Laptop (also from Esquire on special and no longer available). That one cost R6K however.

The R6K model is quite hecticly fast, when Windows 7 loads, the logo of Windows 7 doesn't finish forming and then suddenly you are on the desktop. Total boot time is probably 10 seconds (if that).

Everything starts up instantly.

If you don't game, don't bother with huge CPUs or GPUs, get a model with a screen you like and get an SSD.

That is my opinion...
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+1 for the advice

Looking at getting an SSD for my new i3 (sadly not sandy) and was looking for good drives
 
cheese_za said:
Hey guys & gals.

My cousin has R5000 and is looking for a laptop. I suppose we could go R5500 if need be. But she is looking for the best possible notebook for this amount.
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Big question is what does she want to use it for? Earlier this year I ended up buying my wife a dual core celeron Lenova for R3k at Incredible Connection as she needed something for her Pastal and photos, she has yet to complain about performance.

Also keep in mind that when shopping for women that they are very about looks of a device and will also take looks over specs. Also make sure that unless she is an auditor, make sure the laptop lid has a smooth surface so she can attach a skin to it - my wife is pissed that my daughter got a skin for her laptop but with her Lenova we can fit one.
 
Bought the SO a Lenovo B570 with a Sandy Bridge 2310m processor 4GB for R4400 incl VAT from Esquire a few weeks back didn't swap out the hard drive and it's still pretty quick!

Gnome' s HP looks like a deal at +-R3200 unless he bought a smaller SSD than the one he posted (R3200 + R1790 for SSD)!
 
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