Looking At A New Laptop

[lankeela]

I want something lightweight, around 13/14" and must have a good battery life. I don't do anything technical with them, mostly facebook, emails and occasional zoom meetings and typing up dog show schedules. I want to spend in the region of £300 so what would anyone recommend - if I go to PC World or somewhere like that would they advise me or just try to sell me anything. I would also need them to transfer all the stuff on my current laptop. Would I be better going to a smaller computer shop?

I would add that telling me how many gigawatsits it has will go right over my head!

[Atheist]

Gromit, they don't make money from your contribution; they make it from having big data, which is worth a lot more.

[Gromit]

Atheist
But my data is encrypted so cannot be scraped. They get no big data from me.

[Atheist]

Gromit; someone designed the encryption and someone can bypass it. I'm just naturally suspicious. They build sheds which consume more electricity than some towns. Why?

[Atheist]

Anyway, it's only about a new laptop.

[Gromit]

Most server farms are run on renewable energy. They burn a lot of energy because their storage is on a vast number of computer hard disks and their millions of customers are all over the world. It is a service, like putting your furniture in storage, except they are storing bits and bytes.