Laptop advice

[douglasgdmw]

Hi,

Looking for a new laptop for Sandra but been ages since we have bought a new one.

The laptop will be primarily for work but she accesses her work though a thin client (Citrix connection). Therefore the laptop does not have to be massively meaty but we need something that has a decent performance so that it can run windows 10 and not be too slow.

She also need the laptop to be as light as possible as she may does not want to be carrying a brick. Personal use will be limited to web browsing and possibly saving stuff to hard drive.

Any recommendations out there, we are popping to the airport on Friday so was thinking we might be able to pick up one duty free?

Budget is up to £800.

George

[Dark]

Bought one of these for the wife last week from Amazon, although they seem to be out of stock this week. Otherwise it's £600 at PC World.
It gets really good reviews for general usage, certainly not a gaming machine, often compared to the MacBook in terms of quality & performance.
No problems so far except the alloy case does mark a bit with fingerprints.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01 ... UTF8&psc=1

[tut]

You beat me to it, I bought one for Verian a year ago, John Lewis had a special offer on it for £449 instead of £649 with a two year guarantee, so it was a steal at that price. Things should have moved on in twelve months but doubt if you can still beat it. It is barely heavier than my MacBook Air 11" at 1.2kg, the same thickness, and a slightly bigger footprint. It looks really good as well with its machined turned aluminium body. Lightness is really important and nothing else comes near it at that price. It is a blatant copy of the MBA, but that is no bad thing.

However the cheapest I can see it at is PC World for £600. It has been replaced according to Amazon by a later model at £800. I am an Apple man nowadays but the Asus would not have been a buy for me as I need a backlit keyboard and this model does not have one.

tut

ps:- if I was buying today I would get it from eBuyer, they do the same model but a better spec at £680. It has a 256GB SSD, backlit keyboard, and a higher resolution screen of QHD 3200 x 1800 as opposed to HD 1920x1080, all worth an extra £80.
http://www.ebuyer.com/749668-asus-zenbo ... 5ca-fb038t

[campbell]

Aldi do a nice compact example for £150

[Lazydonkey]

Mrs donkey is running a Microsoft surface just now and loves it. Lots of surface pros in work and everyone loves them too. A lot lighter than most of the competition.

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[Scuffers]

brought one of these a month ago for a mate:

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/ ... 2-pdt.html

for £369.99 they are a bargain, decent 1920 x 1080 LED screen, and the quad core A10 CPU is OK.

It's not a power-laptop, but perfectly up to proper work.

[istoo]

Just got an Asus zen book for my business partner who doesn't like macs. It's a MacBook clone, reviewed very well. Was £600 from currys very impressed overall I must say


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[campbell]

I have an earlier one of those. Brilliant.