Hey gang,

Looking for suggestions on a laptop to replace my wife's dying Toshiba. Her main uses are school, so she will do web browsing and some light MS office work (excel, word, PowerPoint, etc). Perhaps some light photo editing with Photoshop but nothing intensive.

Ideally I'd like one with a ssd, 256gb is fine but more is great. Speed and ease of use is key. Don't need a fancy touch screen. 4gb ram minimum, 6-8 ideal.

Thoughts?

Here's one I'm considering, and I'm willing to donate some fg if someone comes up with a better one that I end up buying.

https://www.quill.com/dell-i3567-3465blk-156-laptop-computer-intel-i3-128gb-ssd-8gb-ddr4-win-10-intel-hd-graphics-620/cbs/53441484.html?cm_mmc=SEM_PLA_NONRLSA_53441484&mcode=SEM_PLA_NONRLSA_53441484&gclid=Cj0KCQiA38jRBRCQARIsACEqIeuVzNoz08-vZqMWBoi99mE_AJcEcCHNRO6aRbk7ml3lo4Bkd-kFuI8aAlkBEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds


Thanks for your time!

What is specs of current laptop and how is it dying just curious

wont find anything for that price that can do your tasks in a good way.

and lol 4gb ram. hf with permanent graphic lags. no quadcore in 2k17 is a waste of money.

would aim for something higher priced that will work with the stuff you mentioned in a fluid manner. that i3 will die from photoshop in a splitsecond lol

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074Q54GSR/ref=psdc_13896615011_t2_B06XFG7157

something like this is only 250$ more and a perfect machine for your tasks, even heavier tasks if she plans to use photoshop like for real and not just for a filter for a facebook pic.

This post was edited by LeiderGeil on Dec 14 2017 10:20am

depends on if her old laptop did her tasks fine
no need to be all elitist until we get more info


Her main uses are school, so she will do web browsing and some light MS office work (excel, word, PowerPoint, etc). Perhaps some light photo editing with Photoshop but nothing intensive

I made some suggestions on laptops here http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=77539291&f=189

It's an old dual core toshiba, 3gb ram, 5400rpm hd, pretty sure it's Intel hd gfx I know it doesn't have a dedicated card.

Left keypad button is starting to break, screen has a few dead pixels, and it's overall slow. It works fine for what she needs as far as power goes. I just want to impress her with something with a ssd and more ram / faster cpu.

She plays no games so it won't be used for that. And she ran Photoshop on the pos toshiba just fine, she's not editing video.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100006740%204020%204021%204814%20600423158%20600004804



/e At the top of the page, you can see the navigation items, I chose.

This post was edited by Ghot on Dec 14 2017 03:13pm

Shop around on *** (edit: popular auction site name apparently blocked on jsp)
You have to invest a little time but I have always managed to buy something nice way under-priced.
Last Laptop was a 4 month month old one with a broken Blueray burner paid $350 instead of 1k+

This post was edited by HoneyBadger on Dec 14 2017 04:03pm

sry slightly over budget, I like the last one the best but 550

https://www.amazon.com/Ideapad-Notebook-i5-7200U-Bluetooth-Windows/dp/B077JGS3XP/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1513289924&sr=1-3&keywords=laptop+7200u+with+ssd

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Flagship-Notebook-Computer-i5-7200U/dp/B077Y122DN/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1513290001&sr=1-4&keywords=laptop+7200u+with+ssd

https://www.amazon.com/Business-LED-Backlit-Processor-Bluetooth-10-Silver/dp/B0754NLWSB/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1513290025&sr=1-6&keywords=laptop+7200u+with+ssd

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-575G-57D4-15-6-Inches-Notebook-i5-7200U/dp/B01LD4MGY4/ref=sr_1_10?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1513290052&sr=1-10&keywords=laptop+7200u+with+ssd