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    Question Best Laptop spec for £400 ?

    Hello,

    About to buy my first laptop this week and so far i believe this to be the best deal,

    Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi
    Weight 2.4 kg
    Stereo speakers, wireless LAN aerial
    AMD Turion 64 mobile technology MK-36 / 2 GHz 512 KB - L2 Cache
    512 MB DDR II SDRAM
    Card Reader 5 in 1
    60 GB HDD
    DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM - integrated
    14.1" TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) - 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
    ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
    Sound card
    Fax / modem - 56 Kbps
    Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
    Wireless NIC Acer InviLink 802.11b/g
    Input Device Keyboard, touchpad, 4-way scroll button
    Battery Lithium Ion
    Run Time (Up To) 2.5 hour(s)
    Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with upgrade ti Vista
    Manufacturer Warranty 1 year warranty

    Thats going for £387.90 inc VAT & Del

    Anyone seen any better deals than this ? has to be brandnew.

    Cheers

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    Keep an eye on Dell outlet and the normal Dell website, definately some bargains to be had there

    For an extra 70, theres this

    or for 387 theres a similarly specced one to the one you are looking at, only its got a 15.4 screen.

    Just drop the warranty down to the basic one to get the cheapest prices.

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    • Flewis's system
      • Motherboard:
      • MSI P45 Platinum
      • CPU:
      • Intel E7200 @ 3.5GHz
      • Memory:
      • 4x1GB Corsair PC5400 @ 720MHz 4-4-4-11
      • Storage:
      • 2 x Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
      • Graphics card(s):
      • 2 x ATI HD4850
      • PSU:
      • 750W Silverstone Zeus
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    Try this:
    http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...ationKey=11105

    Pretty good, comparable to the one you listed.

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    • amjedm's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus A8N-Sli Premium
      • CPU:
      • Athlon X2 4200 S939 + Scythe Ninja rev A
      • Memory:
      • 2GB Corsair DDR PC3200
      • Storage:
      • Samsung T 160GB Sata in Scythe Quiet Box
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Nvidia 6600 256MB + Cooling Mod
      • PSU:
      • Enermax Noisetaker 485 (fanless) - lower chamber P180 fan doing the PSU cooling
      • Case:
      • P180 (modded - easier cable routing, front and rear grills cut)
      • Operating System:
      • XP Pro
      • Monitor(s):
      • LG 22" WTQ?
      • Internet:
      • O2 8MB (Standard)
    I bought a couple of the ones Flewis has recommended for a relative. I bought them on his recommendation - thank you Flewis

    Toshiba A120 Dual Core 1.66
    512MB RAM
    40GB HD (they had to cut corners here)
    CDRW/DVD Rom (they had to cut corners here as well)
    15.4" Widescreen (no corners cut here)
    XP Home (I prefer this to VISTA as IMO too early to adopt VISTA)
    3 USB Ports + Wireless

    Ordered Wednesday evening, received Friday. Setup and deployed.

    IMO you can't get better for that price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by amjedm View Post
    I bought a couple of the ones Flewis has recommended for a relative. I bought them on his recommendation - thank you Flewis
    Anyone who is considering purchasing a Toshiba Satellite A120 in the near future may want to know that the Toshiba Money back offer (the promotion that offers to refund the purchase price of Tecra A8 or Satellite A120s that experience hardware failure in their first year) ends on Saturday 31st March.

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