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Old 07-11-2007, 18:14   #1
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Could anyone suggest a decent laptop? (price range is up to £400)

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

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Re: Buying a new laptop
This one any good for you

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/192223
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Could anyone suggest a decent laptop? (price range is up to £400)

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

Thank you.
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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Old 07-11-2007, 21:24   #4
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Re: Buying a new laptop
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

Although
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/48588...9-99-amd-dual-
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Old 07-11-2007, 21:33   #5
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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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Re: Buying a new laptop
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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The second one has a 90 day rtb warranty so its a refurb id be cautious

The vostro looks ok though
Might not be, dell seems to be offering 90day warrentys on some of their cheaper computers

Is that even legal in this country
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Look at the ACER range - excellent value and full of features
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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)
Thats actually quite a good spec for the money it seems
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Might not be, dell seems to be offering 90day warrentys on some of their cheaper computers

Is that even legal in this country
not if they are new
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not if they are new
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
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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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HP 530 Laptop (Core Duo, 1Gb, Vista Basic)? £360 from Dabs. Probably will get one as present for my son.
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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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

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