A little FYI, At present I use..........Asus X53E i5 750GB 6(2+4)GB RAM. Purchased £400 in Feb 2012, and still going strong (fingers crossed, lol).

Current memory is at OS(C:) 207GB Free of 279 and DATA (D:) 275GB Free of 394.

I really only use it for web browsing, emails, youtube, etc, all the boring stuff really. I do not use it for watching videos / streaming or gaming or anything very technical.

Any music is Youtube videos and played through my HiFi.

 

Anyway, so need new one before Windows 7 updates are no longer available, so before Jan 2020. (At least that way if i have any teething problems I can use this one to help me set up my new one, hopefully anyway).

 

So based on the above information, advice like if I need to worry at all about the amount of memory a new one has, for instance.

Having said that I assume 4GB RAM minimun is sensible? but advice about SSD and EMMC and the sizes of these available (suitable for me based on the above) would be gratefully received.

I wouldn't really want to spend any more than £400 either.

 

If you need further info let me know.

 

Cheers.

 

Edit. Laptop is used at home 99.9% of the time. No real risk of damage by movement.

         And, is there a better time of year to purchase??? pricewise.

 

 

Edited 19 June, 20197 yr by Tilt

Absolutely get an SSD; you will not believe how much faster it makes boot up and shut down.

 

As for Windoze 10, unless you have applications that don't run under it, it's actually no worse than Windoze 7. It's also no better. (recently cross-graded at work)

If you are not doing office work on it, excel, powerpoint, word etc

then might be better to simply buy a tablet, instead of laptop

 

Something like an I-pad (computer world has moved on since 2012)

 

Just the thing for emails and web browsing from your armchair, the wifi version should be fine

can buy a connector adaptor that Hdmi or audio lead plugs into TV or HiFi if want it on big screen or speakers

 

I would update to Win 10, link to your Ms account. Replace drive with SSD (ssds are really cheap 120gb £15) and do a fresh   win10 install. Log in to your ms account to activate and see how it goes.

 

A lot of the cheap laptops are really, really slow.  If you do go for a new laptop, an SSD is desirable, (EMMC are small SSD soldered to the motherboard and have no upgrade potential.) Can't give much more advice on laptops as I always buy desktops as I prefer the flexibility and cheapness of hardware but I appreciate not everyone has the space to store one.

What those guys said. If it'll run Win7 it'll run Win10. And probably better.

Memory is a bit low but usable. W10 likes memory. If you could bump this up to 8Gb it would smooth things out but 4 is ok (2 doesn't work well).

 

SSD will make a spectacular difference over the old spinning rust. You won't believe it's the same machine.

 

If you're short on space you could get a smaller SSD but use the old HD in a caddy as a backup/external storage.

Just remember a little maintenance aleays helps a bit too... ive neglected the "household" laptop since i was given a work one a couple of yrs ago...

Just ran ccleaner for the first time in 2yrs..

Everyones watching!

 

Cant wait to see what the registry clean finds!!

 

Edit

Only 112 reg issues. Thought it would be alot worse

Edited 24 July, 20196 yr by mac11irl

Do also remember you can't defrag an SSD in the same way you can a HDD. Cripples life expectancy

@AaronMountford1990 Excuse my ignorance but cripples life expectancy of which one???

@tilt
Defrag an HDD = good
Defrag an SSD = certain death

Also, looking at what you use it for, a bit more RAM and an SSD might just sort you out in upgrading the old one, although you might not have SATA3/SATA 6gbs which would render the speed increase of an SSD a bit useless........although I've just had a look at the Asus website, and driver/utility updates for the laptop only cover windows operating systems up to windows 8. So looks like the laptop is unsupported and obsolete in their eyes, a new one might be the best option.

a £400 budget wont get you much with a laptop, for intel thats very much Pentium/i3 territory (also known as slow), an AMD based laptop may get you more bang for buck in that price range if using a Ryzen APU.
Also, how much of your 750GB drive have you used? (just seen it in the original post, around 250GB) SSD based laptops in that budget range would only normally be 128-256GB in size. It could be worth buying one with an HDD for under the budget, then swapping it out for an SSD and re-installing windows with the supplied backup disks etc.

Onto edit number 3!:

you could for example get this https://www.ebuyer.com/855754-lenovo-v330-14arr-ryzen-5-laptop-81b1001euk and then with the spare money buy an M2 ssd (which it has a spare slot for) to upgrade to 500+GB of storage. Like this one https://www.ebuyer.com/875044-samsung-970-evo-plus-v-nand-m-2-250gb-ssd-mz-v7s250bw

Edited 30 July, 20196 yr by robt100

21 hours ago, AaronMountford1990 said:

Do also remember you can't defrag an SSD in the same way you can a HDD. Cripples life expectancy

That's as may be, but I've got 72% (169GB) free, with all required software installed; defrags seem to be some ways in the future.

On 30/07/2019 at 19:35, Tilt said:

@AaronMountford1990 Excuse my ignorance but cripples life expectancy of which one???

 

SSDs don't need to be defragged since they are random access.

 

They do need to be TRIM'd but on any OS since Win7 that should all be done automatically.

 

SSDs can only be written to so many times TRIM stop any one area being written to too often and helps to extend life of the device.

 

I think in reality SSDs generally last longer than expected. But it's more important to have backups with them since if they break it is sudden and catastrophic.