Laptop for Uni student.

[Rhett Turner - Black Country AO]

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"

[Steve (sdh2903)]

@Rhett - Joint Black Country AO that sounds like a plan! 

[Kingster]

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 😁

[corsechris]

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  

 

[Kingster]

36 minutes ago, corsechris said:

owies

Que?

[corsechris]

26 minutes ago, Chris King - Webmaster and Joint North East AO said:

Que?

Boo-boos, ouchies, dents, dings, trips & falls.

[Kingster]

6 minutes ago, corsechris said:

Boo-boos, ouchies, dents, dings, trips & falls.

Ah so “user hardware” error as opposed to computer  failure 😁

[corsechris]

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).

[Steve (sdh2903)]

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..........