Need a New Laptop for Programming Hex ezCAN

[Nick Marshall]

Looking to buy a New Laptop to program my lights and update my Garmin satnav and other things like that.
Rather buy from John Lewis and not spend too much money.

Will this do the job? Or is there cheaper or better around?

Thanks for your help.

https://www.johnlewis.com/hp-15s-fq5020na-laptop-intel-core-i3-processor-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-15-6-full-hd-silver/p111180239

 

[GSian]

That may well do what you need. But if it was me I'd be looking at something with more RAM and Hard drive space. Like this, for just a tenner more:

https://www.johnlewis.com/asus-vivo...-ram-512gb-ssd-15-6-full-hd-silver/p111535573

 

[littleade]

That may well do what you need. But if it was me I'd be looking at something with more RAM and Hard drive space. Like this, for just a tenner more:

https://www.johnlewis.com/asus-vivo...-ram-512gb-ssd-15-6-full-hd-silver/p111535573

I bought an Asus laptop from Argos for £329 I think it was when they were on sale thanks to @wessie. It's a slightly higher spec with the i5 processor but I've been very impressed with it so the Asus you've posted should be a decent bit of kit if the op doesn't want to spend more for the i5 version as the ram and hard drive look the same.

The only downside for me was it doesn't have a DVD player/writer as I had an okder version of MS Office I bought previously that I wanted to upload rather than start paying a subsvription for it but they were selling an external plug and play Asus one for under £30 which hits the spot too.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4709534?clickSR=slp:term:asus%20laptop:9:53:1

 

[GSian]

I bought an Asus laptop from Argos for £329 I think it was when they were on sale thanks to @wessie. It's a slightly higher spec with the i5 processor but I've been very impressed with it so the Asus you've posted should be a decent bit of kit if the op doesn't want to spend more for the i5 version as the ram and hard drive look the same.

The only downside for me was it doesn't have a DVD player/writer as I had an okder version of MS Office I bought previously that I wanted to upload rather than start paying a subsvription for it but they were selling an external plug and play Asus one for under £30 which hits the spot too.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4709534?clickSR=slp:term:asus%20laptop:9:53:1

ASUS have been around for donkeys years, I used their motherboards and graphic cards when I used to build my own machines. Not many laptops have CD/DVD drives these days, as you say, the plug in ones are cheap enough should you need one.

 

[Santa-2512]

Jeez, i use one of these

Pardon our interruption...

I converted it from hard drive to SSD and run win10 lite

 

[SOAA]

Jeez, i use one of these

Pardon our interruption...

I converted it from hard drive to SSD and run win10 lite

The only problem with this is that support for Windows 10 ends later this year

 

[Santa-2512]

The only problem with this is that support for Windows 10 ends later this year

As if that's going to make much difference

 

[Nick Marshall]

Paid a bit extra and ordered this today.
Should arrive tomorrow.

https://www.johnlewis.com/lenovo-ideapad-slim-3-laptop-intel-core-i5-processor-8gb-ram-512gb-ssd-15-6-inch-full-hd-arctic-grey/p112464091#product