Technician told us that any laptop under £600 would 'not last long'

[Myronazz]

Hello... so you can get a pretty good idea of what I am trying to ask because of the title. So here is the thing, a friend has a laptop with Windows 7 from 2013 and it's starting to die and under-perform because of it's age, plus Windows 7 support is ending soon so my friend thought that now is a good time to get a new laptop. He went to an independent repair shop and asked for guidance on what kind of laptop he should get, the technician didn't get on much detail but he seemed pretty strict of how 'getting anything under £600 will not last long' now it's important to clear up that we are talking about lifespan here and not 'how futureproof its performance is'

So, in your opinion, how true is that? It seemed pretty vague to me that he needed such an expensive laptop considering he only needs to browse the web with it, and do some other light applications such as movie maker and other software that do light photo editing (cropping, resizing, conversion, filtering etc.) so nothing that needs a crazy computer and no crazy uses like AAA gaming, nothing of that sort. I smell something fishy here but I don't exactly often find myself in the laptop scene so I don't know how true what that technician warned them so strictly about is. Hence why I will ask this: Is it really necessary that he spends £600 on a laptop for the things he wants to use it for?

I am asking all this because independent repair shops in Greece tend to be quite ridiculous and so I want to verify with others here. Also if you can come up with a nice laptop for the above mentioned uses, you can mention it and I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

 

[USAFRet]

Lifespan?

I have a $150 Asus Transformer, now 5 years old.
I have a $350 Toshiba laptop, now 10 years old.

How you treat it is more important than the price.
Now...on the cheaper ones, a part that may fail is the hinge for the lid.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

I have an old 256$ hp notebook that runs like a champ. 5 yrs at least. Lol. Typical salesman garbage trying to upsell you

As mentioned above it’s how you use it that will make a difference for instance mine stays closed at all times and I use it with external peripherals

 

[Myronazz]

Well alright then... It's just as I though but I needed to verify. Now I found this HP laptop and it actually seems like a good deal. How are Ryzen processors in laptops? I recently got an AMD Ryzen and it has no heating issues, but does that hold true in laptops?

 

[LordVile]

Depends what you want it for to be fair. A cheap laptop will chug fairly soon into use and wouldn’t recommend running W10 with less than 8GB of RAM