I turn to you to get several opinions. I now need a laptop for university because my old one has completely given up the ghost after 8 years. Since I really only do unique stuff with it and watch series, I thought about buying an office laptop.
The only thing that really matters to me is:
8GB Ram
Processor: I don't care about AMD or Intel
Windows 10
Hard drive: 256GB SSD is enough
Brand: known if possible
Price: maximum 600 euro
There are quite a few online shops:
Acer, HP, Asus, Lenovo, Medion, Saturn, Mediamarkt, Cyberport, Alternate etc.
When I have decided on a shop, there's always a catch:
Very divided testimonials
Online money transfer or credit card only (sounds strange, but I just feel safer with a classic invoice in advance or after payment)
Incredibly many programs preinstalled that I don't want (classic McAffee…)
I have now limited myself to 4 shops that offer by invoice and don't add any unnecessary software:
Cyberport
Notebook cheaper
CSL computer
Saturn
I still know Cyberport and cheaper notebooks from my training, so we ordered company laptops and if there had been any problems would I have noticed? I was in the accounting department and had relatively good contact with the IT department.
However, one reads so damn different reports here. From "Everything went perfectly" to "Device already broken on arrival, 6 years after the support without success".
Do any of you have experience with these shops and can you help me a bit with my decision? I'm slowly desperate. I need the laptop within the next 2 weeks.
Buy a lenovo laptop in stock with a screen brightness of at least 250 cd from cyberport or cheaper notebook
Aldi has MEDION products with a very good price-performance ratio. I had a Medion laptop myself and was very satisfied. You can also buy it directly in the branch and have it immediately.
Not paying so much attention to reviews. There are really strange characters walking around, who pretty much damaged their device through their own fault and now just got no replacement and the like. It's just like product reviews: Most reviews can be safely forgotten.
A shop always tries to be as good as possible. If they don't deliberately cheat, it will be fine.
