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    Deafening Silence Well-Known Member

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    Stone make lots of education and business equipment - reasonable quality I think. If only an AMD Ryzen and no graphics card though, I wonder what games it will actual play at a decent framerate.

    Personally I've got a M1 Mac Mini desktop - now pretty cheap, tiny, and great performance for the price. Macs always have less games choice than PCs though - depends if your kid wants lots of flashy RGB and does online competition
     
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    royston tyke Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for everyone’s info.

    I ended up going for this and it arrived yesterday.
    A few minor scratches on the lid but everything else in great condition.

    The battery may need replacing and I can upgrade the ram to 16gb for a cost of around £40. The laptop cost me £166 with my wife’s blue light 10% discount so it would be just over £200 should I replace the battery and upgrade the ram. My daughter is super happy with it and so far it plays all her favoured games with the vega 8 graphics.

    https://www.stonerefurb.co.uk/hp-pr...eon-vega-mobile-gfx-8gb-ram-240gb-ssd-grade-c
     
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    royston tyke Well-Known Member

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    Ive just switched - Ive always been microsoft since the early DOS Computers in the 1980's and I still work on a company Dell but for my personal I just bought a Macbook Air which is more compatable with my apple watch iphone and ipad. Different price range to the windows ones especially if you get one with an apple chip rather than and intel one - I bought a new one and it was just over a grand but so far not regretting it, hoping it will last a good few years and as mentioned above the battery life is on a different planet to Windows laptops
    it is taking a bit of getting used to especially as I still use windows for work but I think its going to be fine
     
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    If you do buy a Mac, try to be the Apple Silicon side of the transition, not with an older intel machine. MacBook Air M1 is probably the best bang for buck, and still a great machine. Personally I saved even more and got an M1 Mac mini - I don’t really use it portably, and the battery can’t degrade if it doesn’t have one.

    Not sure if Apple do a blue light discount - they certainly do an education one for teachers/FE/HE/students. Their refurb store is as good as new, just a different box.
     
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    Thanks mate. I’ve learnt this over the past couple of hours. Big difference in performance.
     
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