New spare laptop


Hazel123

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After one laptop dying and setting up my identical spare laptop, I needed another "spare" laptop. I've bought a near identical one again, second hand :-) HP Pavilion 14 ce series 10th generation. I like the smaller touch pads on them. Core i7 with a smidgen of nvidia graphics for £350 (virtually unused). From a reliable ebay seller (apparently).

Bree - I did look on Cash Converters and they had one but it cost more and was well used!

Edit - the reason there are so many of these available second hand (I think) is that they are all models that came with an Optane drive, which is a headache. So I'll just be putting a bigger non optane ssd in and doing a clean install - as before.

The other reason I like them is you can swap/upgrade both the ram and the ssd and there's a compartment for a sata ssd as well. Plus it has a replaceable charging socket - if necessary. And I'll have two spare chargers now. I still preferred my HP Pavilion DM4 though and used that for years.
 
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    Windows 11 Home 25H2Core i5-1035G132gb
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    Windows 11 Home 25H2
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    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 14-ce3606sa
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    Core i5-1035G1
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    Hard Drives
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    Windows 11 Home
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    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion ce3606sa
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-1035G1
    Memory
    16gb
    Hard Drives
    Hynix Gold P31 2TB
    Internet Speed
    200mbps Starlink
    Browser
    Firefox
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