Upgrading my laptop

[durtyrute]

Please help!!!!

I'm looking at buying this laptophttp://www.powernotebooks.com/config...p?special=1791 It says that it doesn't come with a disk for the operating system, they just install it for you. Will this cause problems down the line. The same goes with Office, they give you a product key, but no disk. Will this still work if I need to reinstall at some point?

Thank you in advance

[Fish]

Originally Posted by durtyrute

Please help!!!!

I'm looking at buying this laptophttp://www.powernotebooks.com/config...p?special=1791 It says that it doesn't come with a disk for the operating system, they just install it for you. Will this cause problems down the line. The same goes with Office, they give you a product key, but no disk. Will this still work if I need to reinstall at some point?

Thank you in advance

Lenovo features a recovery partition with internet install capabilities. You should be able to reinstall over the internet as long as you don't bork your partitions or something. Office can be installed via the internet as well if you do have a legit key.

It's not the best solution, but it works in most cases. They do it to save money. There is still a chance that you have a HD hardware failure, in which you'd be SOL.

[durtyrute]

Originally Posted by Fish

Lenovo features a recovery partition with internet install capabilities. You should be able to reinstall over the internet as long as you don't bork your partitions or something. Office can be installed via the internet as well if you do have a legit key.

It's not the best solution, but it works in most cases. They do it to save money. There is still a chance that you have a HD hardware failure, in which you'd be SOL.

Thanks Fish, you and Hometeam helped with my build and I really appreciate your advice. I'm getting this for my wife who is going back to school, so she'll need Office and the ability to look at Facebook, listen to music, work on Office and search for shit at the same time. Is the one I have listed powerful enough to handle that? I had it upgraded at first with a 1TB SSD and 16gb of ram, but I thought that might be overkill for her needs. Thoughts?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by durtyrute

Thanks Fish, you and Hometeam helped with my build and I really appreciate your advice. I'm getting this for my wife who is going back to school, so she'll need Office and the ability to look at Facebook, listen to music, work on Office and search for shit at the same time. Is the one I have listed powerful enough to handle that? I had it upgraded at first with a 1TB SSD and 16gb of ram, but I thought that might be overkill for her needs. Thoughts?

Per your explanation of her needs, this will more than suffice even without the upgrades you listed. That would be overkill. It's a fine computer, and I've setup many Lenovos for family and friends, and they've all been quality.

At most, I would consider upgrading to 8GB of RAM. That would be the only upgrade I'd consider. An SSD would be nice. But I doubt the cost would be justified if this is just a simple school computer.