I bought the Dell Latitude 5520 for £162 (£180 with 10% cashback). It's 15.6". Which suits my Finance Dept Clerk type mobility profile very well. It's under £200. It has an 11th gen Intel i5 1145G7 CPU with the Iris graphics. This is a step up in benchmark performance over the Intel 8th, 9th 10...

The RAM is the least important factor. What with used 8 GB RAM sticks starting from about £10.

Everything else is of some importance.
Even if some of them are only important for about an hour per week. With that hour being when I'm using Darktable...

My understanding is that the Lenovo Thinkpad E16 is: 1st out of the 8 on large screen size 1st jointly on age (it's new) 1st highest screen resolution 2nd, for screen brightness 3rd for sRGB (colour) coverage of the screen 2nd, maybe 3rd for engineering quality of the chassis and lid 2nd, jointly, m...

Is this site being hosted by some guy from his garden shed?

My vote is still with the Lenovo Slim Pro 14, it's open box so you are starting off with a good saving. I know you've said your budget is £2k, but that is one hell of a lot for a home computer. I look at laptops as having a 3 year life span before you want to change, if buying the Pro 14 and you di...

The budget does allow to buy new. There's 3 new laptops in my shortlist. ;) As a user experience I think Windows has gone downhill since 7. Especially bearing in mind that the competition in Linux has moved on nicely over the last 10 years... I don’t like Windows and avoid it as much as possible bu...

I think there's something to commend every laptop on the list. Making this the opposite of a Hobson's choice - as laptops go. :grin: For example, the cheapest laptop on the list, the Dell 5591, has the option of fitting a 92 whr battery (for £45 if it doesn't have one already). This gives it a reass...

The budget does allow to buy new. There's 3 new laptops in my shortlist.

As a user experience I think Windows has gone downhill since 7. Especially bearing in mind that the competition in Linux has moved on nicely over the last 10 years...

I've added a poll and edited the first post - for my list of leading contenders

It's not just the Overclockers forum. It's every other place my clicking has landed me on. Makes me wonder if maybe the people that know how to get the best laptop deals for any particular set of circumstances keep quiet about it, to avoid over-fishing of the pond? And if there's a Dunning-Kruger ef...