Another laptop

[Vtekkers]

Typical me, just lent my parents our home laptop to take abroad and now the Mrs needs to use Laptop / computer for College and work

so looking to by a Used Refurbished laptop as ours needs updating anyway was looking to spend upto the £400 mark

i have seen some on Laptops direct for this price but im not to into computers to see what the best i can get for money wise and brands of machines and chips to go for or stay away from

what makes me ask the question is i have seen a laptop but is has 2 different chips I5 or Ryzen5 both have same everything else but which is the one to go for

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/grade-a1-lenovo-v1...

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/refurbished-lenovo...


use will be mainly to be able to do

home college work ( Nhs stuff )
some basic graphic design Adobe illustrator
Car ecu tuning ( my own car only )

Thanks in advanced

any recomendations under the £400

[Mr Pointy]

What size screen do you want? 13/14/15" - it guides the choice.

[somouk]

Considered looking at the Dell outlet also?

[Road2Ruin]

I am guessing 15", as that's what has been linked to.

We have the cheaper Lenovo of those two in the office. It's fine. Fires up in a few seconds and does everything officey we need anyway. I even do basic video editing on it.

[anonymous-user]

HONOR MagicBook X 16 - Intel® Core™ i5-12450H Processors/Windows 11 Home/8GB+512GB/Mystic Silver/16 inch screen

https://www.hihonor.com/uk/laptops/new-honor-magic...

£404.99

[Vtekkers]

around the 15'' screen size my pal has a 13'' but i think that is to small for me / us

[Vtekkers]

yes also looked on Dell refurbished outlet happy to have a look at one just so many models to look at

i dont mind buying a lets call it an non mainstream laptop if i have problem would repairers turn it away being not mainstream brand and not want to work on them or is this price category a throwaway once it starts to becomes problematic

are there any brands to stay away from

hp
Asus
Acer
Lenovo
Samsung


these all look to be in the price catagory, which order would you put these at

Edited by Vtekkers on Monday 6th November 14:13

[Condi]

I'm not sure there is much difference these days between the known brands - all the hardware inside is supplied by the same companies anyway (CPU, motherboard, HD, etc etc).

As for the 2 you linked to, they're almost identical chipsets as far as performance goes. CPU benchmark has the Intel slightly ahead, but the AMD has a lower number of samples so it's hard to know how robust that score is. Either one will be fine and any difference between the 2 will not be noticeable as a user. The AMD is a new chip, and the laptop has faster RAM but you can't upgrade it, whereas the Intel is an older chip but if you wanted to you could add more RAM in future.

Honestly, there is so little to choose between them I'd probably just go for the cheapest of the 2, maybe the AMD edges it slightly as it's a newer model?