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Going to be needing a laptop soon and wondered what I should be looking for and what budget? I tend to use an ipad for internet surfery and laptop will be mainly for emails, invoices, word processing etc. Shouldn't need to be really powerful as I won't be gaming on it. Any tips or deals?
Have you considered getting a keyboard for your iPad? I'm not sure if older models support them but I'm pretty sure the newer ones will.
I recently got a pretty standard laptop but immediately upgraded the HD to and SSD (cheaper than buying one with an SSD out of the box). Crikey it is quick.
Sorry but that is the limit of by ability to help though.
Budget? You can get some great laptops with a ryzen cpu and an ssd for very little outlay at the moment.
Don't get a Chromebook. Loads of stuff isn't supported and Google tries to shoehorn their software in to everywhere.
It will be near-impossible to buy a laptop which isn't capable of "emails, invoices, word processing etc." You may as well ask "what smartphone, mainly for making phone calls?"
Here you go, £42: https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=slaplenx2201070c
A cheap one with an SSD will fly for the stuff you want. If it hasn't an SSD budget maybe an extra £50 for a new one. You can swap them over easily with a caddy kit, and some free software.
Thanks for the advice, was budgeting a couple of hundred quid. SSD sounds like a good idea. Main use would be as above but I don't want to go too cheap and find it's not up to it which was why I thought I'd ask on here.
As I said, you'd be hard pressed to buy a laptop that isn't "up to" what you said in the OP.
If, however, you actually want it for more than just that, then you need to elaborate. If you want a half decent general purpose laptop then the standard advice is Dell Outlet for bargains, Lenovo for build quality, and budget to add an SSD and 8GB+ of RAM. But that's not what you asked.