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Recommend a laptop pls :)
Marcus - 19/5/08 at 11:59 AM

Loioking for a laptop for general use and possibly playing WOW (not very resource hungry).
Looked at Sony Vaio and Samsung R700 - Samsung is winning at the mo mainly due to 17" screen and seperare numeric keypad.
Any others considered, looking at 650 tops.

Thanks

John.Taylor - 19/5/08 at 12:05 PM

I have heavy useage of my work laptop and have gone through 5 in the last 5 years. The first three were Toshiba's all of which broke (main PCB x 2 and hard drive x1), my fourth was a HP Compaq which got stolen leading to me getting my current HP Compaq nx6310 which has been thrown in and out of the car daily for the last 17 months without missing a beat!

If I was buying one with my own money it would be a HP Compaq solely through it not breaking!

mookaloid - 19/5/08 at 12:11 PM

A big vote for Lenovo here

mcerd1 - 19/5/08 at 12:22 PM

ASUS for me - 6 years on and still going strong

speedyxjs - 19/5/08 at 12:24 PM

graememk might have something for you. Have alook at his site

dhutch - 19/5/08 at 12:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mookaloid
A big vote for Lenovo here

I bought my self a (pre-lenovo) thinkpad T30 when i wanted a basic spec laptop.
- Cost me £40 in the end, and does everything i need.
- Paid the guy £100 but got £60 back when parcelforce chiped the case shiping it.

As speedy says, drop graememk a line. I have no conection at all, but what he posts up for sale on here seams good gear at the right price.


Daniel

britishtrident - 19/5/08 at 12:56 PM

Toshiba --- quite expensive but simply the best.

Tim 45 - 19/5/08 at 04:52 PM

second vote for HP Compaq - the laptop ive got was £420 nd is amost (half capacity HDD and no webcam) the same spec to the £700 HP equiv...very good for the money

Grunty - 24/5/08 at 02:23 PM

Low-end/mid-range: Asus Eee or any suitable Acer/Dell

Anything more: Dell, Toshiba, IBM

Marcus - 27/5/08 at 12:05 PM

Ok, against most advice (the norm for me!!) I went and bought the Samsung lappy. To say I'm pleased would be an understatement - it was the simplest thing in the world to set up and get connected, hell, I even quite like Vista!!
It has an excellent, if a bit shiny, 17" screen, 4 usb sockets scattered around its circumference, HDMI out, 250Gig HDD, and 2Gig ram, and a card reader built in. I love it, but am probably easily pleased