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With Apple's laptops now getting ridiculously expensive for the specs I am going to be jumping ship in the new year to a non-Apple laptop. I have no idea about what's good as there are so many companies out there and so I am seeking recommendations.
I need a 15" screen at least and SSD with at least 500 gig of space.
What are Chillblast's laptops like? They seem to get good reviews and the customer service is apparently good. It's nice that you can customize them before you buy.
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So I decided to hell with it and went to Argos and bought one of these:
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7606823
It’s really good, ok, only 256gb on this model, but they might do the same with a bigger SSD
I didn't know about the Dell XPS models so will have Look.
I can’t comment on the sound quality though as have not played any music or videos on it yet!
I almost spent around twice as much when I was looking so really happy with it.
Looks good, but I'd need to get one with a 15.6" screen because my eyesight is getting worse. I see that Dell are giving money off selected models until the 11th, that's quite tempting but I"m still going to wait until after Christmas.
What do you guys think of this Chillblast? I would get 16GB of memory added and 500GB Samsung SSD. Sounds like good value for £883.71.
What are you using it for? I can't help but think may be something like a Dell XPS is better value.
The Chillblast 15" you flagged up has an an i3 8130U processor with 16GB and a 500GB SSD for £833.71: that's with so not exactly a well-stocked processor.
The PC Specialist 15.6" Ultranote V uses exactly the same chassis as the Chillblast. With 2x 8GB RAM, i3 8130U processor, and 500GB Samsung SSD with Windows 10, you're talking £717.00
For £797, you could swap the SSD for 500GB Samsung NVMe and upgrade to the i5 8250u.
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/ultraNoteV-15/
Regarding Acer: I've found them to be very reliable. My mum's been running one for years that gets treated like absolute shit, dragged from lounge floor to sitting in barns on the farm, and it keeps on going. My own experience with the Chromebook 14 has been excellent. Reliable, works very well, and has been the most useful piece of mobile computing I've ever bought. You wouldn't be disappointed with a suitable Acer but you would pay more as prices for higher GB SSD models jump up quite a bit.
The Acer DBPhoto recommend is a very decent laptop.
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7606823
I'll never buy new again.
I've said this so many times over the years on here that your probably bored of hearing it. Recommending a brand such as Acer or Dell is pointless ... Almost all laptops are built by third parties such as Quanta, Compaq, Foxcon etc then branded HP, Toshiba ect. When you work on them as I do you see the real part numbers internally . Now Compal build some fantastic machines for some companies like Dell and HP and some utter piles of shit which are also branded Dell, HP etc. In short when you recommend you have to be model specific ... like Lenovo ThinkPad T420 etc
Most of today's laptops on sale are pretty bad ... being built to a low standard and price. There are some which are better, some high end Lenovo's, Dell Precisions, HP Probooks ..... but these machines are twice the price of a high street laptop
The Macbooks are built to an extremely high standard but when you mill out aluminium like they do in the construction of the palmrest and keyboard system it becomes very expensive.
Personally I always buy ex corporate machines like the one I'm typing on, Dell Latitude E6410. It cost about £110 and I put another stick of ram and an SSD in it so now it boots in seconds and has no problem running 32 track Protools sessions. Because it is an ex corp machine parts are easy to obtain, replacement motherboard is £25, LCD is £35 .... so very cheap to maintain over the years