Cheers, I'm not phased about 4k, so I'll have a poke around the 'bay for a while and see if I can work out what's going on. I like the look of the all black HPs so I'll probably just limit my search for one of them. That will free up the grrl's laptop for sofa use nicely.
Yeah thats the best way, reseach what model/spec you want and then set up a saved search qne keep an eye on it till you know what constitunes a good deal.
8gb is the sweet spot, but used ram is cheap.
You'll have to check the specific CPU online to see what video/codecs it can easily work with, I wasnt that bothered as I knew I would be adding a low profile gfx card which would easily deal with anything I needed.
This is the W11 CPU list:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors
Anything over 8th gen (for W11) will easily do 1080p no problem, not sure about 4k.
Edit: I had a i5 4th gen in my old one and that would play 1080p video without problems.