New laptop

deluxedomains · Jan 20, 2020

Hi looking for ideas for a new laptop.mainly to be used for work any ideas budget up to 1k my sony viao not as good as it was 10yrs ago.

Any thoughts

Cheers

Ben Thomas · Jan 20, 2020

Do yourself a favour and get a Macbook Air

Adam H · Jan 20, 2020

I had nothing but Sony Vaio's before they went end of line, only sensible replacement in terms of quality and build I've found are the HP ranges. £1000 upwards is your best bet for quality, the cheaper variants in my opinion often feel like there a totally different quality so most likely outsourced or lesser quality parts.

I went for the Oman range , purely because I needed video editing power but the Evny's are pretty spec'y

Admin · Jan 20, 2020

Like Adam, I was a Sony vaio man all the way. Also like Adam, now it's HP. HP Elitebooks and probooks are worth a look

meslam123 · Jan 20, 2020

I have bought Huawei MateBook X Pro before USA sanctions to replace my 6 years old MacBook Pro, I can't say anything other than, it was and still a very pleasant experience.

Ben Thomas · Jan 20, 2020

meslam123 said:
I have bought Huawei MateBook X Pro before USA sanctions to replace my 6 years old MacBook Pro, I can't say anything other than, it was and still a very pleasant experience.

I don't think I could go back to Windows. Are you running Linux at least?

meslam123 · Jan 20, 2020

Ben Thomas said:
I don't think I could go back to Windows. Are you running Linux at least?

No just windows, it was hard at first but it worth it, you won't realize how limited MAC OS was, till using windows, the only feature I missed is the three-finger dragging gesture.

Ryan Ewen · Jan 20, 2020

Microsoft Surface Laptop

keano · Jan 20, 2020

The Dell XPS range are very high quality. Used them as primary machine for years without a single problem. The Dell Outlet often have really good coupon offers from week to week.