New laptop

[RECOiL™]

I'm in the market for a new laptop. my budget is £300 - £400, I want to get the best for my money, any suggestions on where to buy & deals etc.

regards

[staffsMike]

You get quite a lot for your money with this dell vostro 1000

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...N0810003&s=bsd

adjust the warranty to meet your budget.

[bydandie]

A bit over, but for £440 you can get a C2D Acer Aspire 5633WLMi. Comes with 1Gb 667Mhz RAM and a 160Gb SATA HDD. The C2D is a T5500 667Mhz FSB and it's very well built.

[oshta]

Im looking for a laptop around the lower end of the OPs price range, and have been looking at referbed thinkpads on ebay.
- Dont know what lot think of that, but for around the £300 you seam on the surface to be geting a fair bit of kit?
- With a desktop where im fairly willing to wing it (this pc was £200 from tiggerai and has done me four year so far) but with a laptop im more worried about warrentee, etc. Last laptop died of a failed motherboard at 2weeks, and thats not somting you can do much about really.

Im wanting it mainly to use on our boat and on holidays etc, something thats fairly portable, but equally usable and not too 'small' feeling.
- Power isnt much of an issue, as it will basical just be used for surfing the web, but a few hours battery life would be nice.

As an example.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBM-ThinkPad-T...QQcmdZViewItem

Alternativly i might go for the real bottom end, £50 and a knock of replacment battery...?



Daniel

[joshwa]

Comet do a nice Acer laptop for £300 - 1.8ghz, 512mb, Vista, 80gb, 15.4" widescreen TFT (Glass style), DVDRW, Wifi, etc. A friends got one - I'be be happier buying new for a laptop rather than ebay.

[oshta]

Yeah, £300 for that isnt bad, compairs well with the refurbed ebay ones tbh.


Daniel

[Gerschwin]

Acer Aspire 7520 Gemstone @ Tesco
17" screen
£399 - good price for a 17 incher (fnarrr)

Audio Features Yes
Battery Life 2.5-hour
Bluetooth No
Box Contents Warranty, User Guides & Software CD
Brand Acer
Card Reader 5-in-1 card reader, supporting Secure Digital™ (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), Memory Stick® (MS), Memory Stick PRO™ (MS PRO), xD-Picture Card™ (xD)
Features of Product 17" widescreen display AMD® turionTM 64x2 TK53 1.7 GHz processor Acer empowering technnology
Firewire Yes
Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce® 7000M with up to 384Mb NVIDIA® GeForce® Turbocache™
Hard Drive 80Gb
Memory 1024Mb DDR2 667 MHz memory
Number of USB Ports 4
Operating System Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Optical Drive DVD Rewriter
Output VGA, S-video
Processor AMD Athlon TM 64x2 Dual Core
Processor Cache 2 x 256Kb
Processor Model Number TK53
Processor Speed 1.7GHz
Product Depth 29.8 cm
Product Height 4.3 cm
Product Weight 3.36Kg
Product Width 40.4 cm
Remote Control Included No
Screen Features WXGA+ high-brightness (200-nit) Acer CrystalBrite™ TFT LCD
Screen Size 17"
Software Load Acer Empowering Technology (Acer eNet, ePower, eAudio, ePresentation, eDataSecurity, eLock, eRecovery, eSettings, Management) Acer Arcade™ featuring Cinema, Video, Album, Music, Acer HomeMedia Acer GridVista™ Acer Launch Manager Adobe® Reader® CyberLink® PowerProducer® Norton Internet Security™ NTI CD-Maker™ Microsoft® Works 8.5 with Office Home and Student 2007 Trial1
TV Tuner None
Wi-Fi Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED® network connection, supporting Acer SignalUp™ wireless technology
Wired Networking Port Yes

[TheVoice]

www.dmxdimension.com

Awesome site for Dell stuff.