Laptop recommendations

[scott_saints]

Right, I am basically clueless as to what makes a good laptop but just after a few ideas really.

 

£300 is my ideal limit.

 

Any help appreciated!

[stevegrant]

Novatech are a decent bet for that sort of budget, although with any laptop of that price, battery life is going to be pretty poor.

 

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=nb&c=home&r=E15

[scott_saints]

The current lapotp is a Novatech. I broke the screen and the thing is pretty slow now so I thought I'd use it as a chance to "upgrade".

 

Does the one in the link look decent then??

[saintrich]

The current lapotp is a Novatech. I broke the screen and the thing is pretty slow now so I thought I'd use it as a chance to "upgrade".

 

Does the one in the link look decent then??

 

 

If you click select on that one, it charges an extra £60 odd quid for the operating system (vista, XP etc), so it's £298 without an operating system.

 

Bought this one at the weekend and it seems like a good deal to me (admittedly I know very little about laptops though)

 

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=%2C&webid=396307&affixedcode=WW

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

How about this one good spec and free postage!http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139023 or this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147738 or this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150435 and maybe this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149031

Edited 21 October, 2008 by SOTONS EAST SIDE

[thesaint sfc]

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/eComputers-LTD

 

I buy lots from these guys.

 

Choose a £360 laptop and email them asking for it for £300 and usually you'll get it.

 

Don't get a celeron processor.

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/eComputers-LTD

 

I buy lots from these guys.

 

Choose a £360 laptop and email them asking for it for £300 and usually you'll get it.

 

Don't get a celeron processor.

Not a lover of the CELERON CPU myself, but when you only have £300 your mainly in that territory anyway!

[Essruu]

£300 limit, lol.

 

If you'd saved up a little more pocket money you could almost have afforded my second hand MacBook that I've just sold for £400.

 

I might even have let you drool at my new MacBook mmm......

 

[thesaint sfc]

I much prefer me 13"er

 

 

 

 

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz

3GB RAM

Finger print reader

wireless N card

Integrated 2.0MP Camera

250GB HDD

WLED Screen

6 Cell battery

Windows XP Pro.

[mdearlove]

£300 limit, lol.

 

If you'd saved up a little more pocket money you could almost have afforded my second hand MacBook that I've just sold for £400.

 

I might even have let you drool at my new MacBook mmm......

 

 

That drool won't do it much good.

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

£300 limit, lol.

 

If you'd saved up a little more pocket money you could almost have afforded my second hand macbook that i've just sold for £400.

 

I might even have let you drool at my new macbook mmm......

 

yawn! Swos!

[Weston Super Saint]

I bought Mrs WSS one of these for her birthday.

 

Does the job - innernetz browsing, playing choones etc.

 

And all for £280.00

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0010X2L30

[thesaint sfc]

I bought Mrs WSS one of these for her birthday.

 

Does the job - innernetz browsing, playing choones etc.

 

And all for £280.00

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0010X2L30

 

I would rather give £280 to charity than buy and Acer, let alone with a celery processor.

[St Landrew]

Not for people with £300 limits, but I thought an attention post wouldn't go amiss. The Medion Akoya 6612 laptop for £579:

 

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_7660.htm

 

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/hardware/2228901/review-medion-p6612-notebook

 

Just in case someone is after a laptop with a little more poke.

[Weston Super Saint]

I would rather give £280 to charity than buy and Acer, let alone with a celery processor.

 

It's fine for her needs!

 

Checking emails and the occasional 'surf', plus viewing a few pictures.

[Essruu]

I would rather give £280 to charity than buy and Acer, let alone with a celery processor.

 

Says the man with the ugly Dell brick running Windoze!! LOL

[St Landrew]

Says the man with the ugly Dell brick running Windoze!! LOL

 

I have several friends who run Linux, and they would say the same about your Mac. Horses for courses, eh..?

[thesaint sfc]

Says the man with the ugly Dell brick running Windoze!! LOL

 

Lies.