Cheers Gene, worth a look. I've never bought refurbed before, but i wont rule out if it means I cant get a better spec for a bit less cash. That said, I don't want to over-spec the kit i need
Interesting. I've usually had custom laptops so its not something i'd noticed.Pretty much all laptops have memory that can't be upgraded now.
Go for it rooster, might offer some inspiration for my Christmas shopping, so far it amounts to socks. Again.
Not something I've ever come across either - I wouldn't buy it if I couldn't open it up. The cheap one I bought only has one slot and far too little RAM to be of any use, but it only cost me $50 for a 16GB stick, so if anyone wants the 4GB I removed.......Interesting. I've usually had custom laptops so its not something i'd noticed.
Hopefully someone challenges it under right to repair and the practice is outlawed!
Damn, they sound exactly like my parents, we buy them theatre tickets every year. Hand on heart that's true as well! For reasons you already said, that's no good, so yes, socksRight then............we have one set of retired parents who both rarely leave the house at the moment due to Covid caution. Neither of them have any real hobbies beyond watching sport (tv) and Boro (live) and going to the theatre. None of which is really an option at the moment. Any ideas? (Even as I'm posting this I know the answer is socks isn't it!).
Damn, they sound exactly like my parents, we buy them theatre tickets every year. Hand on heart that's true as well! For reasons you already said, that's no good, so yes, socks
I doubt that will happen. Things are going more and more that way. Ultrabooks citing packaging reasons, apple being apple...Interesting. I've usually had custom laptops so its not something i'd noticed.
Hopefully someone challenges it under right to repair and the practice is outlawed!
that looks a decent machine the ram is upgradable as well, so you could put another 8gb to take your machine upto 16gb Ram if you need it in future. if you want the latest version of Ms office cheaply you have a couple of options if you have someone in your family whos a student you should be able to get a student license which is much discounted, alternatively ebay
well, as ironically my old laptop died, my hand was forced and decided to go for this, which was a little over-budget but has an i7 processor rather than the Ryxen 5 or i5 ones i was looking at, so hopefully that will prove to be worth spending a little extra. taking me most of today to get it set up correctly and as i want it, but happy with the purchase - it's certainly very fast!
if anyone cares that is
thanks again for all the advice, it helped me greatly to reach a decision
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to be honest i've just got the 1 year bundle for mcafee and full microsfot365 - i didn;t want to faff about trying ebay downloads, i'm in the middle of applying loads of jobs and have interviews lined up all through next week so just wanted to get it sorted via the path of least resistance so to speak, the bundle was £60 instead of £130 which is didn't think was too bad. when it comes to renewing, i'll have the luxry of time to research a better/cheaper way of doing it
well, as ironically my old laptop died, my hand was forced and decided to go for this, which was a little over-budget but has an i7 processor rather than the Ryxen 5 or i5 ones i was looking at, so hopefully that will prove to be worth spending a little extra. taking me most of today to get it set up correctly and as i want it, but happy with the purchase - it's certainly very fast!
if anyone cares that is
thanks again for all the advice, it helped me greatly to reach a decision
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