Looking for a new laptop

it comes with Windows 8 like all pc world/curry's do now. Think I would prefer windows7
 
Iv not used windows 8 so I can't comment on that yet.
 
I got a similar spec Lenovo IdeaPad a couple of months ago from ebuyer.com when it was on offer and it's fantastic. It's this one http://www.ebuyer.com/479753-lenovo-ideapad-z585-laptop-mad6duk but it's gone up the £90 it was discounted. I'm sure the HP one from PC World will be fine, mine handles any program I've put in it easily. Canon DPP and PSE11 run very well. The only thing I feel lets nearly all laptops down is the dvd rom only being 8x speed. Surely with the technology we've got today they should be able to make them 16x like the desktop roms.

Windows 8 does take a bit of getting used to but I agree with Simon above, Classic Shell does make it much easier to use on the Desktop.
 
Personally speaking id not go for this one, it has a 5400 rpm drive and only a 1366 x 768 resolution.
 
Earl said:
Personally speaking id not go for this one, it has a 5400 rpm drive and only a 1366 x 768 resolution.
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Do you have any other suggestions I could look at for the same sort of price ?

I have an external hard drive so I could go for one with a smaller hard drive built in.

I was looking at the 8G ram so it would be fast but if anyone knows of a better laptop for the same sort of money ill have alook
 
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Can anyone else recommend any to look at today ?
 
What do you plan to do with it, run LR and or photoshop? It will work that's for sure, but the graphics card is not one of the best as the GPU memory is shared with the CPU.
Have you looked on DELL's website? it's worth having a look to see what you can get for your money. They have a refurb section too which is also worth looking at.

Edit: Windows 8 takes a bit of getting use to, but having preserved I'm beginning to like its features. It boots and shuts down very quick indeed, which I find important (i7 with 8G).
 
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Sub £400 you will only get slow mech HDD, 1366 x 768 res and integrated graphics - changing those features will cost £££. The bigger issue for me is the AMD CPU. You would be far better off with almost anything current from Intel. Something like: http://www.ebuyer.com/544258-acer-aspire-e1-571-laptop-nx-m09ek-012 and putting in another 4GB (it's unscrewing the bottom and inserting a module) would be my choice. The processor in that is 2x as powerful than the AMD - even though it only has half the number of cores.

Unless you want to spend more £ that is....
 
I could probably stretch to £500. I mainly use cs5 but I do use Lightroom 4 from time to time. I don't do lots of heavy editing,Just the normal adjustment.

I'm open to suggestions and thanks for your input guys
 
4G will do you for LR assuming you have very little else open at the same time. PS is more memory hungry. Seem to be a number of laptops with the i5-3230M (same as the £379 one I linked to) in. Choice is down to make and look - they all have fundamentally the same I/O (some don't have USB3 though if you want that).

Have a look: http://www.ebuyer.com/search?a00035=Intel+Core+i5&price=0+TO+500&cat=10 for £300-£500 i5 laptops... You'll see they differ mainly in RAM and HDD size...
 
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