Mitchell Gant
Active member
My mum has an aging Asus 10" Atom netbook 256Mb running Windows XP that she uses for Skype to my sister, along with a bit of email and web browsing.
It's very slow now and the screen is too small, so time for an upgrade she says.
I'm very out of touch with what is what these days, I've looked at a few laptops with 15" screens and Celeron CPUs at around the £300 mark, but my experience of cheaper Celeron PC's has always been that they are S-L-O-W ! I looked at a friends Acer desktop with combined LCD recently, pretty sure that was a Celeron CPU, and it took AGES to boot up with Win 8, I was quite surprised considering it was a year old.
Requirements would be a larger screen, not too heavy, and run Windows that I could set up to be as close to XP experience as possible. There's NO WAY my mum will be able to learn Windows 8 with a touch screen (or any Android tablet for that matter), it's just not going to happen!
So, any suggestions where to aim? Will a £300 15" laptop with a Celeron and 4GB RAM running Win 8 be noticeably faster than a 256Mb RAM Atom running Win XP?
I'd say £400 would be the price ceiling here, would prefer less than £300 really. Any pointers appreciated.
It's very slow now and the screen is too small, so time for an upgrade she says.
I'm very out of touch with what is what these days, I've looked at a few laptops with 15" screens and Celeron CPUs at around the £300 mark, but my experience of cheaper Celeron PC's has always been that they are S-L-O-W ! I looked at a friends Acer desktop with combined LCD recently, pretty sure that was a Celeron CPU, and it took AGES to boot up with Win 8, I was quite surprised considering it was a year old.
Requirements would be a larger screen, not too heavy, and run Windows that I could set up to be as close to XP experience as possible. There's NO WAY my mum will be able to learn Windows 8 with a touch screen (or any Android tablet for that matter), it's just not going to happen!
So, any suggestions where to aim? Will a £300 15" laptop with a Celeron and 4GB RAM running Win 8 be noticeably faster than a 256Mb RAM Atom running Win XP?
I'd say £400 would be the price ceiling here, would prefer less than £300 really. Any pointers appreciated.
