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My OHs employer gave her a new laptop. Its a HP 440g7. Anyway according to google its would've cost us around £1000+
My question is why is it so expensive? I ask because we've never spent more than £300 on a laptop.
My question is why is it so expensive? I ask because we've never spent more than £300 on a laptop.
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I bought around 200 of these and installed them in the last company I was at. They are ok and pretty well built. Tehy dont like washing up liquid or being dropped off a car roof. (Two we lost in first month!). We 'souped' a few up with extra RAM for people using excel, which for people in accounts seems very hungry.
Personally I prefer dev spec Dell, that is what I used but then I needed more power. It was around £1600.
Personally I prefer dev spec Dell, that is what I used but then I needed more power. It was around £1600.
We are having a chuck out at work this morning. We have Dell PC's. When
I Googled the various models, most of them are around £500 and the much heavier ones were more than £5k each. These were designers PC's. They are loaded up with twin CPU's. 8 strips of memory. Multiple hard drives.
Huge graphics cards. Fans galore and independent cooling systems. This is why you pay £5k for a PC.
I Googled the various models, most of them are around £500 and the much heavier ones were more than £5k each. These were designers PC's. They are loaded up with twin CPU's. 8 strips of memory. Multiple hard drives.
Huge graphics cards. Fans galore and independent cooling systems. This is why you pay £5k for a PC.
Sorry for the delay. My Oh was going to use it for teleworking. But as shes got used to using her €300 version. Shes given it to me. Plus theres a software issue. As her employer took an age to give her permission to download and use a programme called " UPN" well i think thats whats its called. She doesnt want to go through the same palaver again. And shes happy enough with her cheap lappy.
Your question seems to have been largely answered but, since you mentioned my name in the title of your post, I'll chuck in my tuppence worth anyway:
The laptop (as described in TTT's first link) has a solid state drive (SSD). That usually adds quite a bit to the cost when compared to laptops with conventional hard drives. Further, it's quite a large SSD, which pushes the cost up even higher.
It's got a fast (i5) processor, meaning that it'll cost more than the slower (i3) version. Further, it's '10th generation', which means it's the latest, all-singing, all-dancing version. (The processor speed, of 4.2 GHz, is way above the speed found in most laptops, which typically have a processor speed of 2-and-a-bit GHz. It's even considerably higher than the processor speed in many gaming PCs).
It's got 8 GB of RAM which, while not massive, is more than cheaper laptops have. (Up until recently, 2 GB might have been seen as the norm for budget models but 4 GB is becoming more common).
It's got 'little extras', such as a fingerprint reader.
It's built for heavy-duty use, with a metal case.
The best quality laptops do tend to be expensive to buy new but they don't hold their value, meaning that there are some excellent second hand bargains available. The laptop I'm typing this on cost around £1200 when it was new (about 4 years ago) but I bought it for just £199 last week:
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It's superb. There's not a mark on it and, apart from the absence of the original packaging, it would be impossible to tell it from new. It really feels like I'm typing on a grand's worth of computer!
The laptop (as described in TTT's first link) has a solid state drive (SSD). That usually adds quite a bit to the cost when compared to laptops with conventional hard drives. Further, it's quite a large SSD, which pushes the cost up even higher.
It's got a fast (i5) processor, meaning that it'll cost more than the slower (i3) version. Further, it's '10th generation', which means it's the latest, all-singing, all-dancing version. (The processor speed, of 4.2 GHz, is way above the speed found in most laptops, which typically have a processor speed of 2-and-a-bit GHz. It's even considerably higher than the processor speed in many gaming PCs).
It's got 8 GB of RAM which, while not massive, is more than cheaper laptops have. (Up until recently, 2 GB might have been seen as the norm for budget models but 4 GB is becoming more common).
It's got 'little extras', such as a fingerprint reader.
It's built for heavy-duty use, with a metal case.
The best quality laptops do tend to be expensive to buy new but they don't hold their value, meaning that there are some excellent second hand bargains available. The laptop I'm typing this on cost around £1200 when it was new (about 4 years ago) but I bought it for just £199 last week:
https:/
It's superb. There's not a mark on it and, apart from the absence of the original packaging, it would be impossible to tell it from new. It really feels like I'm typing on a grand's worth of computer!
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