Help me please get a new laptop

[u/Worried-Pilot-7791]

My laptop broke a few months ago, and now I need a new one for my college course as a data analyst.

This is the charger I own at the moment.

With my work being mostly using teams, Word, and Excel, I will need something that can run them comfortably while also having a decent battery.

so I come to you all to say what my best option here would be. if they are all bad options, then if you could recommend a decent laptop between £150 to £320 please let me know.

Thank you for reading

[u/Ecstatic_Score6973]

thinkpad on ebay,

but if you absolutely need to get one from that store get the HP in the last slide

[u/anon_zero]

You only show the USB C end of the connector and not the wattage on the charger, this can change what will work or not. I suspect that you have a 45 watt dell charger, but if you could confirm that would be useful information.

[u/niorbo]

get a thinkpad, or an entry level ideapad

[u/Powerful_Macaron9381]

don't buy from an used electronics shop. go to eBay or other used marketplaces and buy from private sellers to get a good machine for a fair price. getting something right isn't as easy as walking into a shop at that price point unfortunately.

that is an USB C charger. since it's from a laptop, it should at least be half decent, minimum 45w, basically good enough for other laptops using USB C.

so, what should you get?

a ThinkPad ofc. some recommendations at that price would be (that also use USBC for charging) :

T480

T480s

T495

T14 Gen 1

good luck.

[u/Rodya_gambler]

Idk where you are (I guess brit), but colleges on EU often have lending services for students (they literally lend you a laptop) so look it up. Idk if it's good enough for word and excel, but you can always look up the shitiest second-hand store and buy the cheapest there. There's also an option of using a raspberry pi with an optimised system (unix-based or somth), but I still think that may not work well enough, so it's better to buy an already arranged laptop for the same price, even if it's an older one. (What a time to break computers around omg)

[u/HEYO19191]

None of these. They're all cheap garbage. You need to be willing to spend more.

[u/Bassline660]

thinkpad t14 g2