It's that time and my current one was purchased on the back of a suggestion I read on here and has been just the job, so hit me with your wonder, good people.

I reckon £400 or thereabouts should meet my needs, but will happily pay more if the advantages make it obviously worthwhile (They'd need to be fairly mind-blowing, though. Perhaps the online p*** starlets could leap hungrily from the screen to nosh me off? Or at least talk to me without vomiting or laughing at my genitals. That sort of thing.) I don't much game, so that's not really important. I do stream a bit of NFL so handy to make that look all razzamatazzy perhaps. Not critical though. Just the usual really - internet, email (lots), Excel/Office (lots), videos and music. Y'know...

Whaddya say? (Black Friday a factor? (I'd overlooked that - had been thinking I'd wait for January sales.))

As a woman, I can step aside, or step up my game...

That's extremely kind of you, much obliged. I didn't know to swerve PC World, thanks. (I'm a moderate tech-cretin, by the way. I understand the very basics - jpeg, routers, servers etc., and probably once knew what HTML meant - but your average 8-year-old finds me laughably inept. On so many levels.)

As a woman, I can step aside, or step up my game...

You can get this laptop for £410.

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I just briefly checked John Lewis as you get a 2 year guarantee which is a good bonus in case anything goes wrong with it. It definitely has all the specs you would need for your use. Just an example.

I have a Lenovo paid £449 for it last year it is excellent and does everything you need it to. Price you pay depends on what you want on it and what you need it to do. Despite the suggestion of swerving PC World i went there had a chat with one of their guys and he tailored a package that suited me. You dont have to buy it there but you can get their reccomendations then go elsewhere if you want but im happy with my laptop and i use it for business quite a bit.

For your use, i5 processor is totally fine. My dads laptop has an i3 processor and he streams some football and watches video completely smoothly.

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Nice work, thanks. i5 it is. I reckon I'm almost there.

From what I can find, these seem chief candidates (I shall also check out pcspecialist) - basically slightly different versions of Lenovo, HP, & Acer Aspire:

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I'm tempted by the John Lewis Lenovo one as that was recommended above by someone much more in the know than me, plus the automatic 2-year-warranty wheeze. But the other Lenovo option has a higher model no. (if that's what it is) - does this matter? (I am painfully aware that both this observation and description confirm me as one of the country's foremost gormless gits.) It also means PCWorld is swerved - preferred if all else is equal. However my current laptop is an Acer Aspire I bought (as advised here) through ebuyer, and this proved excellent all round.

So which? (It's the John Lewis Lenovo, innit? Is it? Yeah. Is it?)

As a woman, I can step aside, or step up my game...