Girlfriend laptop

gkomninos

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Hello. I am looking for some advice for the laptop I am looking for my girlfriend. I am looking at the default configuration of "14" LAFITÉ® PRO PINK" (https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/lafite-pro-14-pink/) as I think she will like the color and design of it but for her use which is super generic (web browsing, netflix, some office work etc) its specs look like an overkill. She never plays games, she never runs tons of intensive processes concurrently. On the contrary, she might need a bit more disk space. Is there an option to get the same case with lower specs? Thanks!
 

sck451

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What do you reckon looks overkill about it? It looks like a great bet to me: I wouldn't want to lower any of the specs. The 1135G7 is a great bet as a CPU. The 8GB of 3200MHz RAM is a good bet, and I believe it's expandable if you wanted to do so in the future. I'd want to go for a better and larger SSD, but otherwise it looks ideal.

You can buy thin-and-light laptops cheaper elsewhere for a bit cheaper, but not many, and their performance would be markedly worse than this because they tend to use Intel's inferior CPUs (in range, generation, or core count).
 

gkomninos

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Hello SCK451 and thank you for your reply. My main concern is the CPU. I feel that for her use something like an Intel core i3 dual would be more than enough. I might be wrong, though.
 

sck451

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Hello SCK451 and thank you for your reply. My main concern is the CPU. I feel that for her use something like an Intel core i3 dual would be more than enough. I might be wrong, though.
I wouldn't go near a dual core these days. I have an eight-core in my laptop, and four cores are being used all the time, even in lightweight work like web browsing. A twin-core might be OK for now (though I doubt it would be great) but it would really limit the lifespan of the computer.
 

gkomninos

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Ok, that makes sense, thank you. I was also looking at this (not sure I'm allowed to post this here). Specs looks quite similar, HP has touchscreen (not the most useful but still), any other big difference I might be missing?
 

SpyderTracks

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Ok, that makes sense, thank you. I was also looking at this (not sure I'm allowed to post this here). Specs looks quite similar, HP has touchscreen (not the most useful but still), any other big difference I might be missing?
As these forums are for PCS builds, we can't comment on competitors or self builds, you may want to check out Toms Hardware which is an open forum.
 

sck451

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As a general principle, a big advantage of a PCS build is that you know precisely what all the components are, whereas a prebuilt may well hide the true specifications of some of the components (memory is a common one, and motherboards and power supplies on desktops). That can have a huge impact on performance, though the headline components look the same. But, to be clear, I'm not commenting on that particular laptop.
 
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