Laptop suggestions

[Fenway16]

I would like to spend no more than $400. My main interests are using Adobe photoshop elements for photo editing - no video stuff. Also no gaming. Internet browsing, email - the usual. Can someone recommend a decent, laptop with the above needs in mind. Thanks very much.

 

[Axel PC]

Good deal . Let us know how it works out.

 

[Fenway16]

Dell Inspiron 5570 Laptop Intel® 8th Gen i5-8250, 256 GB SSD Hard Drive, 8 GB DDR4, Win 10 Home, Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Well - this is what I ended up with. Hope it's a good one. Got it for $499. A little higher than what I wanted but seems a good fit. Question: McAfee is installed but I don't want it. Hopefully I can disable it to dl and install my choice of AV - if not, what is the recommendation for installing new AV software. Remove McAfee first? Knowing the conflict of having 2 av's on system, this always confounds me timing wise. It's been a while since I have had to do it. Would appreciate your input. Thanks very much.

 

[Axel PC]

Hey I think that sounds like a really good deal for $499.

I'd uninstall McAfee first, restart and install the AV of your choice.

 

[Fenway16]

It's only been a few hours but not thrilled with 10. I said not to install mcafee in the setup process but guess what - installed anyway! I went ahead and d.l. Avast and installed it and had to take it off as I was not able to uninstall mcafee or so it would appear. I downloaded a win 7 lookalike to find my way around this system and found a better uninstall program - like the old win7 one so might try it again.

Such a pain having the wheel reinvented without the old wheel not being worn out yet. It also wiped a 500GB external drive in order to make a recovery drive. It needed 16GB and all I had was this 500GB one - waste. Now the drive is not accessible anywhere except this Dell- can this be reversed do you know? I would have had to purchase a 32GB for $16.00 -- which now that I know this drive is wiped - I would do.

I will get used to it I'm sure but not crazy about it. Just too busy for my taste.

 

[Axel PC]

That sucks! Yeah unfortunately in order to have the latest security updates and protections we have to do this major updates in Windows. That is one thing I do like about Mac.