Buying a Laptop Help Reqd

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Hi all daft ish Q time,i'm in the process of swapping the data from my old desktop to my
external HD,the Q is do i also copy n paste both hard drives from my old desktop
Cheers Baza
 
Baza 07 said:
Hi all daft ish Q time,i'm in the process of swapping the data from my old desktop to my
external HD,the Q is do i also copy n paste both hard drives from my old desktop
Cheers Baza
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depends. Some like to keep a mirror of the exact hard drive contents. Pointless for most users, especially if your new laptop is running Win 11 and the old one has Win 10 or earlier.

others, the majority, like me, are only interested in actual data files like photos, other media, personal documents etc

Do both drives have useful data or is one only used for the operating system?

Where do you sit on this spectrum?
 
Hmmm best way to explain this,I reckon I’m with you and the majority,got to say most of the tech lingo goes straight over my 73 year old very bald head,so I think I’ll wait till the new laptop turns up,then decide before putting a hammer through the old desktop 🤔😉👍
Thanks for replying mate 👍
 
wessie said:
depends. Some like to keep a mirror of the exact hard drive contents. Pointless for most users, especially if your new laptop is running Win 11 and the old one has Win 10 or earlier.

others, the majority, like me, are only interested in actual data files like photos, other media, personal documents etc

Do both drives have useful data or is one only used for the operating system?

Where do you sit on this spectrum?
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Is it worth carrying out a disc clean up to get rid of all the old cache, lingering deleted files and duplicated files first before transferring them over to the new drive?
 
LOLGEOFF said:
Is it worth carrying out a disc clean up to get rid of all the old cache, lingering deleted files and duplicated files first before transferring them over to the new drive?
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I think he is only going for data files so unlikely to have much duplication in "my documents" and other media folders.

I would only mirror a whole drive if I was replacing a hard drive, not moving stuff over to a new machine.
 
Going through my pc folders I seem to have duplicates of lots of photos (14000) photos in all,is there a quick way of deleting the some 🤔
Cheers Baza
 
Baza 07 said:
Hi all,hope your all well,a quick Q how does this A laptop stack up against B this one,
the reason i'm asking is because i cant see John Lewis getting there stock together any time soon.
I can see the processor is a tad smaller,in the Currys one but would i see the difference

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/a...intel-core-i5-512-gb-ssd-silver-10265763.html (A)

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4668668?clickSR=slp:term:asus laptop:8:53:1 (B)

Cheers Baza
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Never buy from Currys is my mantra.

Anyway, their laptop for the same price has an inferior processor - the i number indicates the number of processing cores. Higher is usually better. Plus if it goes wrong, you are dealing with Argos/Sainsbury's

I'm still not sure you need so much processing power and the original one I recommended that is in stock at JL would suffice
 
wessie said:
Never buy from Currys is my mantra.

Anyway, their laptop for the same price has an inferior processor - the i number indicates the number of processing cores. Higher is usually better. Plus if it goes wrong, you are dealing with Argos/Sainsbury's

I'm still not sure you need so much processing power and the original one I recommended that is in stock at JL would suffice
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Thanks for your reply mate,unless i'm reading it wrong,has'nt the Curry's and J Lewis laptops got the same processor,plus JLs got 8 GB Ram
where as Curry's has got 16 GB or am i over thinking it
 
Baza 07 said:
Thanks for your reply mate,unless i'm reading it wrong,has'nt the Curry's and J Lewis laptops got the same processor,plus JLs got 8 GB Ram
where as Curry's has got 16 GB or am i over thinking it
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and the Curry's one is charging you £120 for that extra 8GB of RAM, which you can manage without for your needs

plus JL give you 2 years warranty
 
wessie said:
Never buy from Currys is my mantra.

Anyway, their laptop for the same price has an inferior processor - the i number indicates the number of processing cores. Higher is usually better. Plus if it goes wrong, you are dealing with Argos/Sainsbury's

I'm still not sure you need so much processing power and the original one I recommended that is in stock at JL would suffice
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The i5 processor in the Currys laptop is a generation newer than the i7 in the Argos laptop & as such is ever so slightly better, not inferior.

Although there’s not a great deal in it, in this instance I would opt for the i5 over the i7
 
SOAA said:
The i5 processor in the Currys laptop is a generation newer than the i7 in the Argos laptop & as such is ever so slightly better, not inferior.

Although there’s not a great deal in it, in this instance I would opt for the i5 over the i7
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🤔🤯😉
 
Baza 07 said:
Hi folks I know it’s been a while 🙄but I’m thinking of buying this, what d’you reckon 🤔
Cheers Baza
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it will be fine. I have had a Vivobook for over 2 years and it is great. Asus provide a decent spec for the price and seem pretty robust.

my sister has just bought one, in a lower spec from John Lewis. She is very happy with it. She was going to go to Curry's but I found the Vivobook for a similar price and it has a 2 year warranty via JL as they add a year to the Asus standard year.
 
wessie said:
it will be fine. I have had a Vivobook for over 2 years and it is great. Asus provide a decent spec for the price and seem pretty robust.

my sister has just bought one, in a lower spec from John Lewis. She is very happy with it. She was going to go to Curry's but I found the Vivobook for a similar price and it has a 2 year warranty via JL as they add a year to the Asus standard year.
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Cheers mate,as you said previously the JL 2 year warranty is a 👍
Ah well that’s another box ticked, that is until I’ve bought it and then swapping thins over 🫣🤣😉
Thanks again 👍
 
What’s the minimum you need for just using a laptop for route planning with the various programs.
Don’t want to spend hundreds on something new that a refurbished one would do
 
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