Buying a new laptop
 

Could anyone suggest a decent laptop? (price range is up to £400)

Needs good speed, wifi, 60 - 80 gb HDD.

Thank you.

Re: Buying a new laptop
 

This one any good for you :)

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/192223

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Just got the following from dabs.

£399 - HP

Dual core
1gb ram
120gb hard drive
dual layer dvd burner
altec lansing speakers
Vista home premium
Spare battery

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx...4LFF&InMerch=1

I think it's pretty ace for the money.

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I'm over by about £11

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/52169...book-tl60-2ghz

how about a dual core amd
2gb ram
120gb hdd
Vista business

OR

XP Professional - English

Wireless, Dvd-RW .etc

Yvostros are supposed to be business machines but dell are quite happy to sell them to home users via those deals, I bought a dimension off one of those and my friend got a vostro desktop :D

Although
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/48588...9-99-amd-dual-
£380

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The second one has a 90 day rtb warranty so its a refurb id be cautious

The vostro looks ok though

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Can't beleive I'm gonna say this, but some of the Gateway Laptops that Tesco sell are absolutely fantastic, a basicish laptop with a reasonable C2D CPU, 1GB RAM, Wireless, Intel GMA950 Graphics can be had for about £350, really good quality piece of kit too! - Comes with Vista (and seems to run it rather well)

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Might not be, dell seems to be offering 90day warrentys on some of their cheaper computers :Yikes:

Is that even legal in this country :erm:

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Look at the ACER range - excellent value and full of features

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Thats actually quite a good spec for the money it seems :)

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not if they are new

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Thats what I thought yet they are...

for instance http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...hs1&l=en&s=dhs

the 2nd notebook has a 90day warranty yet no mention of it being a refurb :confused:

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Thanks for the help people, will take a closer look at all of those.

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HP 530 Laptop (Core Duo, 1Gb, Vista Basic)? £360 from Dabs. Probably will get one as present for my son.

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I looked at that one but thought an extra £40 for a spare battery, 40gb extra hard drive and Vista Premium was a good choice over it.

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that says 90 collect and return im imagining the 9 months left are just RTB

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Dell are pushing what is legally acceptable as warrenties in the uk. Zing is probably correct as by law the reseller must warrant it for at least 12 months. What kind of warrenty is upto them!
Dell like to offer big upgrades to there warrenty & support services (this is now seperate) which can cost almost as much as the hardware itself in some cases!

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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132639

Is this one good for the price?

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yep.

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i bought both of mine from lidl two years ago and have found it great - wifi installed and have not had a problem with any of the software - unlike my laptop i bought a few years ago from one of the high street vendors and it had to be reconfigured etc etc etc

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Seconded :)

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Thanks people, will go with the ebuyer one.

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but always crap battery life.

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That seems to be a thing common to a lot of laptops, pertucally if vista is on them

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fugitisu or however you spell it appear to do 4 hour battery life last time i looked but acer appeared to be 1-2 hours which is crap.

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I don't see why you would not go the extra £40 and get vista premium, an extra 40gb hard drive space, proper speakers and a spare battery. *puzzled*

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my macbook claimed something like 6 hours Bah yeah right maybe with minimum backlight the thing idling constantly wi-fi off , no peripherals plugged in it might.

Most manufacturers battery life claims are always based on Ideal conditions
Besides which after a year or 2 the battery will probably be duff anyway, seems to be the case with these modern laptops.