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If you are leaning towards a decent laptop, add a KVM and you could still have both? :)


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If you cannot afford a new PC desktop there are places on Ebay that buy up bankrupt companies desktops and refurbish them and give you whatever windows you want at a good price. I always go for these deals.

I got mine on Ebay with windows 10, refurbished DELL desktop, new keyboard, new big monitor (an unknow make from China 'IIyama') and new mouse and new speakers, all for less than £100. Worked out fine. Who knows how they give you a package like that at that price.

This shows you the scam like Curry's that hit you for £600 for the same thing but new. That's why I have never been in Curry's for years.

Last two laptops i have bought came from Loop8, an eBay seller, both have been running since 2020, I upgraded from my old Dell that was dying.

Then lockdown hit, and my youngest pinched mine for school work, so bought another, but have been great.

My eldest has an aging Dell which we bought direct, has been a PITA, and will probably get her a new 'thinkpad' for Uni next year.

At work, they have rolled out laptops for everyone, but i have retained a desktop, due to location, and mobile device/mobile IT not being allowed on site.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 17th July 2024, 15:47

it all depends really on where you'll mostly be using it, and what you want to do with it.

in the old days, at home I used a desktop for gaming and internet etc, after dinner I'd go on the internet upstairs for a bit, then come down at 9:00 to watch tv.

nowadays, i sit on the sofa with the the laptop, but don't do gaming on it, but occasioanly it gets plugged into the tv to watch thins I've "found".

Like I think many offices, work just supplies laptops, when I'm at home, it's plugged into 2 monitors, a mouse and keyboard, when i go into the office i plug it into a dock, plugged into mouse keyboard 2 monitors.

I use the laptop screen, and 2 external screens. I guess how many screens may affect your decision.

if you only want 1 screen, and would rarely want to use the machine in another room, then cheap desktop sounds sensible, why pay for a laptop screen which would rarely be used.

years ago you had to pay a premium for a laptop to be as good as a desktop, and that's still true if you want a real gaming laptop, but any cheap laptop is good enough for surfing the internet, office functions etc,

desktop still obviously offers upgradability, but when you can buy a fast usb ssd so cheapily, who can be arsed to buy a new bigger ssd, reimage-reinstall windows etc

and apart from gamers, who updates desktops anymore?

i'd probably stay away from a really cheap laptop where it comes with a small amount of memory and can't be upgraded, but get something that has 8gb should be fine for ages.

Maybe just keep an eye on hotukdeals and buy whatever "too good to be true" bargain comes along, laptop or desktop. a cheap refurb from an office is probably better than a cheap cheap home desktop, as the office one is more likely to let you get at the parts inside, where as a home one these days is more likely to be sff, like a  laptop without the screen.

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This item was edited on Wednesday, 17th July 2024, 18:12