Rhett Turner - Black Country AO Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 On 08/08/2020 at 23:41, Steve (sdh2903) said: She did also say im overthinking it when she manages just fine on our 2 year old cheapie house laptop which has a crap processor, 4gb ram and a 64gb storage eprom. In that case, give you that one and get a new one for yourselt, we can then look forward to the new post, "what Laptop should I buy" 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve (sdh2903) Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 @Rhett - Joint Black Country AO that sounds like a plan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 On 08/08/2020 at 10:08, Blatman said: And for bags I *love* the Wenger rucksacks Oh yes. Superb. As is the MacBook Pro that sits inside it 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Used to look after a few hundred machines of assorted types in a mainly teaching environment, with a number of laptops that got shipped all over the country, used for days or weeks at a time then returned, rinse & repeat. Had mainly Acer & HP brands, latterly more HP than not. No issues at all as far as robustness goes despite a few owies thanks to careless users. Main bugbear was sending out 10 power supplies and getting 9 back..... Ironically, the MacBooks seemed to get more owies than the others. None failed though despite some rather nasty 'blemishes'. SSD for sure is a good thing for assorted reasons, as is a decent amount of RAM. I'll go one further on the backup and suggest that not only do you need a backup policy but you need a restore policy - as in, do test restores from time to time to prove the backups are actually, well, backups, and not just useless space-wasting junk. It's a PITA, but if it's important. back it up twice in different places too. ...and as nobody seems to have said it....'a new laptop for a student' - sounds like a fair swap to me, any old HP will do fine thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 36 minutes ago, corsechris said: owies Que? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 26 minutes ago, Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO said: Que? Boo-boos, ouchies, dents, dings, trips & falls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 6 minutes ago, corsechris said: Boo-boos, ouchies, dents, dings, trips & falls. Ah so “user hardware” error as opposed to computer failure 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsechris Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Just now, Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO said: Ah so “user hardware” error as opposed to computer failure 😁 Yep, or as we used to call them, clumsy a********s (sorry for getting technical). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve (sdh2903) Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 Am now sorted. A friend of a friend was selling an 8 month old one of these https://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=6XE62EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB Its immaculate, still has 28 months warranty and was just about half the price of new. Its a cracking bit of kit and I'm debating keeping it and giving her the old one as I've not told her I've got it yet.......... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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