Its my mum’s birthday in a weeks time and for it we want to get her laptop. I know desktops are better but she will use it all about the house and we haven’t got space for a second computer. We have about 400 ish quid to spend on it, so which laptop is the best for money and where can we get it from (we live in stoke)?

Also once we get it, what bits do I need to make the house wireless for the internet (cable broadband), to share documents on the main computer and also to share the printer and scanner?

Thank You

Phil M

Speaking as someone who used to build computers for a living, Dell computers have some stunning deals on at the moment. Their quality in the early days was a little variable but now days they are damn good.

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Originally posted by RazMan
Speaking as someone who used to build computers for a living, Dell computers have some stunning deals on at the moment. Their quality in the early days was a little variable but now days they are damn good.

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I went for an Acer laptop about 3 years ago.

I think you can get them for around £390 ish or so. Do a Google for Acer laptop, for suppliers and prices.

It has been brilliant, never given me any problems. Very pleased with it....

HTH Fozzie

Edited to say....which cable broadbean have you got?

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For Price and service dell are great, though as an enthusiast ide be going with Toshiba! if you will do second hand ide say dell

John

Thank you for the info about laptops, and i am on ntl 4mb cable

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Edited to say....which cable broadbean have you got?

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Got an apple ibook.....not great value for money I'll admit as you pay a premium for the design.....but.....its the only computer I've ever experienced that doesn't crash, has never broken, never needed reloaded, doesn't need virus, adware, spyware etc software as none of the little toe-rags have bothered to make them for apples yet.....plus its much, much faster than any PC's I've ever used.....also they're a doddle to connect wirelessly etc as there are NO drivers on Mac's you really do plug and play.....Something to think about perhaps...Oli.

ebuyer are doing a good deal on an acer.

£369.99 +free delivery.

Ray

Philip, look at NTL's page...

http://www.ntlshop.ntlworld.com/webstore/Default.aspx

It will tell you all that you need to buy for 'wireless', there is also a page there which gives you instruction on how to set it up.

Hope that helps!

Fozzie

Ray, that Ebuyers price on an Acer is good! I'll have a squizz myself!

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Got an apple ibook.....not great value for money I'll admit as you pay a premium for the design.....but.....its the only computer I've ever experienced that doesn't crash, has never broken, never needed reloaded, doesn't need virus, adware, spyware etc software as none of the little toe-rags have bothered to make them for apples yet.....plus its much, much faster than any PC's I've ever used.....also they're a doddle to connect wirelessly etc as there are NO drivers on Mac's you really do plug and play.....Something to think about perhaps...Oli.

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If you go dell and spec the machine on line you can un select the waranty and it will cut the cost further, I did so and the price came down by £90. I did get a call from Dell after asking why I did not want the special waranty...

How long was the warenty for, i did hear a little known fact that apparently electrical good have a warenty of 5 years by default. its in your statutory rights from when electrical things frist came out but good luck getting ur money back after 4 years!

John

There are loads of virus scanners that do work for macs.... Norton do one though I would steer clear! Best I've found is a program called ClamXav - freeware but works very welll.....never found any virus's on my computer though and I download from limewire all the time....Oli.