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Originally Posted by chrisinva
Ineed new laptop & I'm not tech savvy. Please recommend something: I need a laptop to run WORD, & EXCEL. I surf the web & shop online. I use hotmail/outlook. I save lots of pictures (.pdf, .tiff. jng) from my iphone to my laptop. Currently I have used 100 GB of my 225 GB Dell laptop that we got 5 yrs ago. I don't do any gaming & don't want to. Weight is important, current laptop weighs 2.2 lbs.; I'm willing to go to 3 lbs. Backlighting is VERY important. Battery life not so important. Chromebooks look interesting but I tried a MAC years ago & could never adjust to it so went back to WINDOWS. Thanks for any recommendations.
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Do you currently have a solid-state hard drive? If not, you may look at updating your current drive to a 500 gig or 1 tera byte drive. I'd go to a tera byte drive. It'll give you room to store and upgrade to windows 11. That's what I did. All your programs can be reimaged over to the new dive with ghosting software. The cost of word and excel for your new laptop would justify just cost to reimage the drive. After you have the new SSD hard drive imaged, they just take out your old one and put in the new one. You will see a boost in speed. Next how much RAM do you have? A boost in RAM will boost performance. I'm running a dell with 16 gig of RAM, 2 hard drives. A 500 gig and 1 tera byte. I run excel, word, power point, edit videos, it's 5 years old, and it runs great. It's an Inspiron 3793 so a pretty decent laptop. NOT 2 pounds. 6.6 lbs. actually, but it's a 17-inch screen. I'd buy Dell again. It's all the company I worked for bought. They have a great extended warranty if you are not computer savvy.