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​sticky keys you say...

Already mentioned in the OP.

Down another tenner to £169.99. Worth a punt?

Daughter's getting into photography and have just purchased her a fuji S8200 bridge camera for christmas, looking at a cheap laptop that will run photoshop, Fotor, Serrif etc would this do it?

If not any advice would be welcome (£230 budget)

MM

Hartley, people like you make me sick always trying to get things for free. stop being a cheap skate and buy a decent laptop

1366 X 768

Amazon seem to be the exception to the rule!
PCWorld et al and others will just send it away to the manufacturer for repair

I could be wrong but I'm sure when you buy goods you enter into a contract with the retailer, not the manufacturer. Maybe I just want free computing :smile: but I always assumed if goods developed a fault during the warranty period the retailer would either repair, replace or refund. I know Amazon do.

If I had wanted to hire a laptop for 9 months I would have hired one. I bought a laptop expecting it to last a reasonable length of time, and I don't consider 9 months to be a reasonable length of time for a new laptop. It's all academic now, as I've now bought a laptop from Amazon, who do give a full refund if goods cannot be repaired within the warranty period.

I would say the fault lies with Lenovo who if they couldn't fix there own computer within the 12 month warranty period, should have replaced it with a brand new model either the same as you had or the equivalent model in a newer range..
Expecting the shop to replace the computer after 9 months is a little naughty in my eyes, as its not there fault it had a faulty screen..
Also if you had 9 months use of the product its hardly fair to expect the retailer to replace it as I said this is down to the manufacturer not the shop.
You should have demanded a replacement computer from Lenovo and not taken a voucher for a partial refund!

But you have had 9 months use out of the laptop so why should you be in the same position you bought the laptop. As I said you want and expect free computing!

No, I expect a £300 laptop to last longer than 9 months.
If it fails within the warranty period I expect a repair, replacement or full refund. ie I should be put back in the position I was in before buying the faulty goods.

Wow, thank you. ...I can't believe I've not come across that one before.I'd thought that turning his Latitude into a Chromebook type OS would be a good idea, but the best I could find was Chromixium.
You think my sons Dell latitude is old, my wife's is even older, an ECS-G553 clone, which after trying several OS's on has now been given a new lease of live with Lubuntu 14.04, mainly as some of the other recent distros have problems with the lack of a PAE flag on it's CPU.Anyway, I upgraded the RAM, and it works great for her needs, and surprisingly nippy about it.However, my sons needs are going to mainly focus around access to specific school websites for homework / research etc, so something simpler than a true Linux build would be better.The main issue I've had with most Linux builds is getting them to work with our trusty Epson XP-305 which we all share via WiFi, which MS make so easy.I have to say your suggestion for what is essentially a browser / cloud based OS could be the answer, and since it's free well worth trying.I'll let you know how it works out, but his model is listed as supported so that's a good start.:wink: Having started out on a PET & TRS80 III, I appreciate computers more than most and always like to try and re-purpose them, so I've built gaming machines, jukeboxes etc all out of stuff most would have thrown away years ago.
Thanks again! :smile:

*UPDATE* I thought this might be a problem, it can't boot from USB! which is a real shame as this seemed to be a good solution, so I've gone with Chromixium which installed fine, and seems to work pretty well considering it's Ubuntu based, well it is a... get yourself prepapred... Dell C640 ...
Yep, it's very old, but is so well built it still looks like new, and just goes to prove what's possible to all those who moan you can't do this and that on computer or tablet because it's 12 months old.Obviously it's far from perfect, a bit laggy compared to running XP, but still very useable, which is amazing when you think it's 13 years old!

I had this laptop 3 weeks before sending It back, due to the button on the touch pad getting stuck in. Cheap poorly built rubbish! Save your money and get something half decent.

Do not buy this machine..... even after removing all the pre bundled Lenovo junk its just so slow.... keys are awful and do not register - i put money on the fact within a few days you will want to smash this up with a hammer!!!

You will regret wasting your money on this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crazylegs.......Wow,you really crazy!!

That's the normal price. Rrp, is often false.

1TB 7200rpm 2.5' - £44http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-hgst-0j22423-travelstar-7k1000-25-sata-6gb-s-7200rpm-32mb-cache-13ms-oem?utm_source=google+shopping&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CLDGubG828gCFQgGwwodqZcHIg

Up to you to waste your money on crap product.

Not when the screen res is already mentioned in the description..
Your just showing how much of a plum you are!

Your quoting retail you numpty!

It's appreciated Bro, I've seen a few people adopting this now, and it's great :sunglasses:

I was doing your job for you!

And 33% more expensive!

No, a simple cheap and basic 7200rpm HDD will do. It's 33% faster than this 5400rpm HDD.

I bought a Lenovo B50-70 from Ebuyer this time last year. After 9 months it developed a screen fault, a line of dead pixels down the screen. I returned it to the manufacturer, who couldn't repair it, so they gave me a return code to give to Ebuyer so I could get a refund or replacement. As I had the laptop for over 6 months Ebuyer would only agree to a partial refund as I'd had use of the laptop. Suffice to say I will never buy a large purchase from Ebuyer again.

The gpu is terrible but the cpu is definitely fast enough for browsing, general tasks and the battery runtime on these laptops is normally brilliant.

This laptop is usually bouncing around this price, sometimes with cash back. A good price for a basic laptop with cheap-ish build quality.

No WiFi

It does have wifi.
"Non-intel 1x1 BGN + BT"

reduced as they need to shift it fast, if it's been on the shelf a monh the hard drive only has a 2 month lifespan left..... (we bought our son a le-no-go at Christmas, it's on it's 3rd hard drive & has spent over 2 months out of action being repaired)

I think I have this model laptop it is pretty good and even runs league of legends :smile:

Check Asda. They were selling an identical spec Medion Akoya E6239 (also made by Lenovo) for £80 a few weeks back. They won't be on display. If your lucky,they'll be in a corner in the store so ask at the tech desk to go and have a look.
Not the fastest ever, but perfect for some of the needs above.

I'm looking for a laptop for my 15 year old daughter to do her home work and revision on. Also for her to use kodi on and stream films and TV and listen to music YouTube etc. Would this laptop be OK for that? Thanks

we've got one of these at home - absolutely fine for normal office use - gets quite heavily used as a work PC by one of us and has travelled around europe.

I've got a much more powerful Lenovo i5 (£900) portable machine and to be honest the cheaper machine does the job as well.

And you would like what an all singing all dancing SSD at this price point..
Absolute joker!

HDD: 5400 rpm

Website says save 12.55 ? Do you work for DFS :laughing:

Good basic laptop. Hope people dont vote down because you cant run a nuclear power station with it

I wonder what the power consumption difference is between this and the thinkpad x220 with an i5 that was posted here for 88 quid on equivalent settings. I think I know which one I'd rather have lol, it's arriving today :smile:

ebuyer sell refurbs as new, with a little poking around you will find something. When I tried to register the warranty of a laptop i purchased off ebuyer it had already been registered the year before.

I actually have this... it is an "ok" laptop... had a few issues.. keys stick often... space bars doesn't work sometimes... suppose you get what you pay for.

Seems a good deal considering the specs and screen size, most around this price seem to only have sub 12" screens.My son needs a replacement for his ageing Dell Latitude, so looking for a good laptop buy just for student work (not games, social etc), even refurb as the cheaper the better at the moment, and HUKD PC guru's got some suggestions?