Afternoon all
Looking to buy a laptop for the good lady wife.
I have a budget of approx £450 and the laptop will be used for internet, email/word and some low processor hungry software.
I have no clue about what to look for/brands etc but would like to get the best I can for the money.
Can anyone on here suggest makes/models etc to either look at orr avoid?
Cheers
Nigel
Dell make a decent laptop, and have good offers on at times.
Tends to be business spec, which is spot on if your not going to be playing games on it - so not requiring a fancy graphics card etc.
Think you might get one a bit cheaper than £450 if you shop round.
li
nky
I've heard good things about these, I want one in fact.
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
li nky
I've heard good things about these, I want one in fact.
I had the EEE 901, was a nice laptop, but I've since then returned the 901 to be replaced with an Advent 4211 (aka the MSI Wind)
Keyboard is a much nicer size, speed is pretty much the same, as the processor is exactly the same unit. Saving a bit of cash on that, the Acer Aspire
One (varying models/hard drive sizes, etc) is very good value. Keyboard is a nice size when compared to the 901, and the screen is nice and shiny
too!
Or, if Dell seems like a good idea and you don't want a teeny tiny netbook, Dell's EBay outlet (yes, icky eBay!) have some really great
deals. They sell "seconds" but having seen a friend order one, the 'scratch' that was supposed to be on the unit was nowhere to be
seen!
Username is "dellfactoryoutlet", linky at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Outlet
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Originally posted by Dangle_kt
Dell make a decent laptop, and have good offers on at times.
Tends to be business spec, which is spot on if your not going to be playing games on it - so not requiring a fancy graphics card etc.
Think you might get one a bit cheaper than £450 if you shop round.
Ring Dell, and spec up a laptop to the coswt you want. Take delivery of said laptop, wait for few days, and then ring them up and tell them you have changed your mind. They will send you loads of goodies to persuade you to keep it, as they can't resell returns for anywhere near full price. Hey presto - you keep the laptop and all the freebies. My friend got a free colour printer and digital camera when he rang up!
www.mcscom.co.uk is the place Dell send their returned laptops to be re-sold.
http://www.mcscom.co.uk/product.php?xProd=5707&xSec=70
Bought one of these for a mate the other day and it is fantastic.
We got an HP6720B from Carphone Warehouse as a freebie.
paid £15 delivery for it, and £20 a month for broadband.
They also gave us a free upgrade to 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive.
Works for me.
There are loads of deals around, if you're in the market for a phone contract you'll easily find a free one with that. I'd avoid dell, there are hidden costs, like suddenly a delivery thats qouted at £20 hops up to £80, plus I've found their customer service to be awful! For £450 you can get something pretty decent but to be honest the only major difference between a 350 and 450 quid laptop is brand and styling. Acer, Asus and e-systems are all budget makes that include quality internals, the same that you'll get in a more expensive laptop. Go for something with a min. of 100GB HDD, 1GB Ram (although you should easily manage 2GB with your budget) and get a 17" screen if its mostly staying at home! For anyone interested I can (hopefully still) get the full version of office for around £40, let me find the link for it and ill post it soon. Tom
From an IT companies point of view, we wouldn't recommend anything else other than an HP, purely down to the support.
buy a toshiba ! my Equium M40x is brilliant and it runs on the battery for about 6hrs!
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Originally posted by joneh
From an IT companies point of view, we wouldn't recommend anything else other than an HP, purely down to the support.
