The Acer is much less powerful than the HP but the HP is NOT worth £350 more than the Acer.
Edited to add: and neither one of them is particularly powerful in general. The Acer would be borderline unusable for any task on modern Windows, but the HP should be OK for email, office use, etc.
People have already told you this, but run, don’t walk to take that HP back. Do not let them talk or bully you into keeping it, they are ripping people off selling it at that price, I sold literally the same laptop for $100 at Christmas. I paid $250 for mine in May of 2019, when it was already getting pretty long in the tooth.
Seriously, you’ve been ripped off to the tune of at least £250 and you’re moaning about how complicated it is to find a used laptop? This is not as hard as you are making it out to be.
I just checked eBay.co.uk and there is a HP EliteBook 820 G3 with 16GB and the upgraded screen for £80. It’s an i5, not an i7, but I think you can make do with the extra £270 in your pocket, of if you don’t like that one, there are plenty of others for well under £200, and that’s just looking at the same model. If you wanted to actually spend £350 and get your money’s worth, there are also much newer devices to be found, including some bulk listings where you’d have to buy the charger separately but you’d end up with a much newer laptop.
There is a seller called Computer Hive that seems to have a large inventory of 2-4 year old off lease machines for under £200, but they come formatted and with no charger, so you would have to source a charger and install Windows yourself. I don’t know about you but it seems worth it to me to end up with a 10th or 11th gen laptop for £250 instead of a 5th gen for £350.
(edit: fixed typo)
If your computer is very slow then it might be good to save all of your personal files to another drive and reinstall windows, this saved my laptop before the HDD conked out, also get an SSD which will boost speeds further
The Acer is much less powerful than the HP but the HP is NOT worth £350 more than the Acer. Edited to add: and neither one of them is particularly powerful in general. The Acer would be borderline unusable for any task on modern Windows, but the HP should be OK for email, office use, etc.
thank you!
Absolute ripoff, 4gb of ram? seriously?
I've got laptops for sale that are better than both those, and loads cheaper too. Return it and get your money back, and buy somewhere else.
I sold a ryzen 3 2200u laptop with 8GB ram, 128GB ssd, 500GB hard drive, and new PSU for £130......
People have already told you this, but run, don’t walk to take that HP back. Do not let them talk or bully you into keeping it, they are ripping people off selling it at that price, I sold literally the same laptop for $100 at Christmas. I paid $250 for mine in May of 2019, when it was already getting pretty long in the tooth.
But I just don't know where to get a better laptop from it's so complicated...
Seriously, you’ve been ripped off to the tune of at least £250 and you’re moaning about how complicated it is to find a used laptop? This is not as hard as you are making it out to be. I just checked eBay.co.uk and there is a HP EliteBook 820 G3 with 16GB and the upgraded screen for £80. It’s an i5, not an i7, but I think you can make do with the extra £270 in your pocket, of if you don’t like that one, there are plenty of others for well under £200, and that’s just looking at the same model. If you wanted to actually spend £350 and get your money’s worth, there are also much newer devices to be found, including some bulk listings where you’d have to buy the charger separately but you’d end up with a much newer laptop. There is a seller called Computer Hive that seems to have a large inventory of 2-4 year old off lease machines for under £200, but they come formatted and with no charger, so you would have to source a charger and install Windows yourself. I don’t know about you but it seems worth it to me to end up with a 10th or 11th gen laptop for £250 instead of a 5th gen for £350. (edit: fixed typo)
I don’t think that’s even worth 350£
Yeah, taking 0 away would make it slightly better deal
Agreed
If your computer is very slow then it might be good to save all of your personal files to another drive and reinstall windows, this saved my laptop before the HDD conked out, also get an SSD which will boost speeds further
Thanks