Ausmumof3 Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Our 10yo laptop is pretty much nonfunctional. I will need to get a new one fairly soon. What does the hive recommend? I need to be able to Download and print electronic homeschool resources Play educational videos Store and sort photos Possibly set up for transcription typing work General email and word processing I don't think I need anything overly fancy but I do want something reliable and not overly expensive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Our 10yo laptop is pretty much nonfunctional. I will need to get a new one fairly soon. What does the hive recommend? I need to be able to Download and print electronic homeschool resources Play educational videos Store and sort photos Possibly set up for transcription typing work General email and word processing I don't think I need anything overly fancy but I do want something reliable and not overly expensive. Just about any inexpensive Windows (or Linux) Laptop should be able to do that for you. I would recommend, at the very minimum, 4 GB of RAM. And, a 64 bit Operating System. If you can get 8 GB of RAM, that's better. The things you are going to be interacting with, the Display and the Keyboard/Touchpad are what matters to you. I take it from your user name that you are in Oz, so I can't direct you to sources I would if you were in the USA. I would suggest limiting your choices to these 3 brands: Dell, Lenovo and HP. The age of your current machine isn't an issue, the Laptops my wife and DD and I use are approximately 8 years old and have probably been in service for about 7 years, but the condition of your machine is the determining factor. If you are buying a Brand New laptop, try to get the longest and best possibly warranty. I assume you will go to a "Brick and Mortar" store and so you will be buying a machine designed for and built for the Consumer market. TEST the keyboard/touchpad. Look at the Display carefully. Those are the interfaces and are the most important factors, unless you will be using the Laptop as a Desktop and hooking up an external Keyboard and Mouse and possibly Display. Good luck with your purchase! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frugalmamatx Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I just bought this one {https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0789V3R2H } after Christmas and really like it. I got a much better deal though as it was on clearance at walmart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Just about any inexpensive Windows (or Linux) Laptop should be able to do that for you. I would recommend, at the very minimum, 4 GB of RAM. And, a 64 bit Operating System. If you can get 8 GB of RAM, that's better. The things you are going to be interacting with, the Display and the Keyboard/Touchpad are what matters to you. I take it from your user name that you are in Oz, so I can't direct you to sources I would if you were in the USA. I would suggest limiting your choices to these 3 brands: Dell, Lenovo and HP. The age of your current machine isn't an issue, the Laptops my wife and DD and I use are approximately 8 years old and have probably been in service for about 7 years, but the condition of your machine is the determining factor. If you are buying a Brand New laptop, try to get the longest and best possibly warranty. I assume you will go to a "Brick and Mortar" store and so you will be buying a machine designed for and built for the Consumer market. TEST the keyboard/touchpad. Look at the Display carefully. Those are the interfaces and are the most important factors, unless you will be using the Laptop as a Desktop and hooking up an external Keyboard and Mouse and possibly Display. Good luck with your purchase! Yeah the laptop has always had an overheating problem in spite of various things we've tried (external fans etc). The hard drive had to be replaced once. The laptop actually gets so hot that the glue in the power cable melted and came oozing out and the stuff round the keyboard melted off. It's possible that it's fixable some way but we are just ready to be done with it because it's given various kinds of trouble ever since we purchased it. The DVD drive is broken and the fan makes a really loud noise etc We were thinking of Lenovo as DH uses them for work and they seem OK: it's helpful to know the minimum specs we need though as there's such a range. Neither of us are really computer people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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