Thoughts, opinions, advice?
Thank you.
The Dell has the i5 processor. I’d go with that.
HP. They work well and hold up well.
What are you going to use it for? (Web browsing, photo editing? Video editing? Gaming? etc?) What are the characteristics that you find important? (e.g., weight be power vs battery life?)
“I am looking at a few new options, and would like some input. “
What are your needs and budget?
Window Laptops suffer after the Spectre/Meltdown patches. The Intel/AMC Architecture won't be fixed for years. Macbooks have excellent battery life vs Windows.
That's my two cents
Get an HP. I’ve had several with no problems.
The 1.06 MHz would quickly turn into a regret. Of the others, I would probably go Dell. In contrast to others, I have bought my last HP.
Macbook Intel doesn’t suffer because they already do Software Memory Management very well already.
Your loss. I have an HP Spectre and I love it.
I have a $160 Samsung Chromebook & it’s fantastic. Can’t get a virus, boots in under 7 seconds. Updated every few weeks. I’ve been using a 6-year-old Acer Chromebook & it runs as good as the day I purchased it. Never broke. Never had one issue. I’m never going back to anything else.
You did not say what the main uses are going to be. Those all seem like weak processors for running Windows 10. I have a Samsung Chromebook Pro that I like a lot. I can charge it with the same charger as my phone uses. It can fold into a tablet. It has a stylus pen that comes in handy when I am using it while on my elliptical trainer (sweaty fingers don’t work well on the touchscreen). The screen is real high resolution so photos and videos look beautiful. Battery last a long time and it only weighs 2.5 pounds.
Around a year ago, I was in a local Walmart and they were clearing out the HP Stream 14inch laptop. It was only $99 so I got one.
It has 4GB Ram but only 32 GB of regular memory.
It does not have a CD Rom drive and after about an hour the battery seems to be getting low tho I have never used it all up.
It has Windows 10 and generally works just like a PC. I added a large micro SD card, I think 64GB but not even sure what it does.
I say #4. All the others are too squeezed: too little RAM, too little storage, or both.
Choice 3 is overpriced for what you receive. Only 2Gb RAM and 60Gb Disk.
Choice 4 seems to be a decent enough configuration.
Assuming this will be for light duty and on a strict budget, given these four choices, the Dell would be my choice.
Like someone else said, an i5 processor is a good choice.
The main shortcoming of Dells is that their power jacks and power cords wear out. You really need to treat them with TLC. Also, most generic power supplies will not work for charging Dells because the power supply and laptop will have a "chat", and if your Dell laptop finds that the charger isn't an official Dell unit it's no go. Fortunately there are plenty of Dell clone supplies available that mimic the right behavior and work fine.
T420, couple of X201
I would not run Windows 10 with less than 16 GBytes RAM. For OSX, 8 GBytes minimum.
At least an i5 or i7 processor. Celeron is slow. Also, 8 Gb ram.
15” screen, unless you are specifically looking for a tablet size. I prefer 17” even on the laptops.
Of course, it depends on what kind of computing you do.
I love my Dell Latitude laptop. Of course, it’s a 2015 model with Windows 7. Still, it’s a workhorse.
The only thing I don’t like is the numerical keypad, which doubles as the pg up, pg down, end, etc., so you can’t really do math stuff and maneuver around, say, a spreadsheet without some fancy footwork with the Fn key or NumLock key.
So if you’re a heavy numerical keypad user as I am, be sure to check out that setup with any brand you buy.
An Intel i5 is a good balance between performance and battery life. 4 gigs of RAM is sufficient, but 8 is the sweet spot.
Make sure the WiFi adapter supports 802.11ac. A weak WiFi will cripple your experience and just make you angry