I bought mine refurbished a year ago & have upgraded the parts in it since & it works amazing. I'd rate it a 4.4/5 stars for sure. Compact & all the major parts are decently accessible after removing the bottom casing - I only have an i5 processor, but it's still very fast. I use it for everything - school, gaming, facebook
Recently picked up the 840 G3 for £290 off Amazon. Consistently fast and upgraded to 16gb. For the price its simply amazing. A laptop that once cost £1000 in 2016 it's a good value imo!
I'm typing this comment on this very model, same specs except mine has 16GB of RAM. The build quality is superb. I've had it a couple of years, picking it up from CEX for £350, and one of the first things I did when I got it was to replace Windows with Linux. I've just upgraded to the Debian 12 Linux distro, which is lightening fast on this machine.
Just caught a refurb 820G3, i5 6200U, 8GB-DDR4, 500GB, new battery and charger, for 160 pounds, Win10PRO. I was vulturing and nobody bidding. It's not an i7, but still an i5-6200U is still valid.
Got 3 laptops (one is old and slow as balls but still have some docs on there). I have a elitebook g3. Not the most stylish on the market today but the design is great. So light, like carrying around a folder, careful not to drop it because it’s got no weight haha. Can handle run of the mill video editing and unremarkable games. Professional editing and processor hungry games will NOT run smoothly. Aside from CPU intensive, it’s a snappy fella. Fast enough. A little glitchy time to time but no complaints, ie vanishing mouse. Perhaps I need to update some drivers n stuff. Come in i5 and i7, would pay the roughly £550 (refurbished) and get the i7 cuz better if you’re a RU-vidr or want to multitask. This laptop is a bit awkward with power. Often if the charger’s plugged in and you’re multitasking or sometimes just multitasking with heavy cpu/gpu generally, he gets loud and overcompensates so prefer using him unplugged. Overall, watching videos, standard applications, document making all smooth. Nice speakers, very fast boot up. snappy snappy! but: crap camera Another point: maybe invest in an external hard drive mates
@@deanpramadyagading6050 nope it's not a video editing laptop and the graphics won't cope with the intense video editing requirements. Check the minimum requirements for the software
I have a desktop now and I'm looking at buying a second laptop for some video editing and streaming for my RU-vid channel. It's an Elitebook 820 G3 12.5" Laptop - Intel Core i5-6300U-2.4GHZ - 16GB RAM - 256GB SSD. Would this be a good option? From what you explained I'm this video it's seems like it would do the job. What would you suggest? Thanks!
You have to be careful with video editing, this is really intensive of the computer, and something with a newer/higher end processor might be better for this job.
I got 2 of these for FREE! (unfortunately not really these, they were both only i3s ) but still, all the other parts are exactly the same, the RAM, SSD , the lot so stil nice to get for nothing... For light jobs that don't really need the i7 brainpower.
I'm looking to purchase one of these, need it for work, Microsoft office, zoom etc. In your opinion would it keep its speed for 3 years ish? Thanks From 🇨🇦.
Would this still be a good laptop to buy as a refurb? Literally just want it to play Football Manager at a good speed, have option to upgrade to 16G RAM, all in for €280
A 16gb ddr4 / i7 6th gen version of this can it work smoothly with unity / firebase / unreal engine programming / autocad / rhinoceros 3d / photoshop / sony vegas / photoshop these type of programs in general i mean ? And about occasional gaming can it run smoothly csgo/hearthstone/lol ?
@@LucidComputerSolutions it will run 24/7 and i dont want charge the battery all the time. less heat, less powercost, less damage to battery. the more important question is, why didnt u just answer my question?
@@eytsx Yes.. Very good buy . But it has a small storage of 256ssd with an internal slot for another hard drive. Apart from the small storage capacity, its specs are good.
