I've just sold my rubbish Advent 9115 Laptop and am now looking to buy it's replacement. Have looked at a few and have narrowed it down to 3 that I like so far.
Given that I work for Curry's, I generally get to mess about with Toshiba, Dell, Compaq, HP and Acer etc. But in all honesty there's nothing currently in our range that I like thats a decent spec for £350.
I was originally looking to buy a netbook when the I sold the laptop but when I realised just how limited I'd be, and for practically not much more cash I'd get a much better laptop than if I'd gone for the Samsung NC10 that I was going to buy originally.
I really like the look of this one - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152652
Not really had any experience of the brand so am a bit wary of them, but the reviews seem positive.
Then there's this one - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152233
A few quid over my budget but the spec on that one is pretty much similar to that of my desktop PC. I like HP as a brand, my mate has had a few of them and has been quite happy with them.
Then there's the Dell 1545 we sell at work for £399, by the time I have my staff discount on it that beats the price down to £359, which isn't bad for the spec of the laptop, it's just I'll be railroaded into taking the extra warranty on it for £8 a month which I know I can go and just cancel because it's a direct debit, but it's the hassle of having to go through that process.
I don't play games on my laptop, I just generally use it for a bit of web dev on my website, listening to music, surfing the net when I can't be bothered to use my PC, watch DVD's on it when I'm in bed and feeling lazy.
I'd also like to at some point run Linux on it, as I was stuck with a horrible SIS based chipset on the old Advent, I'm sticking with, or at least trying to stick with something thats all main branded chipsets so I can get a distro such as ubuntu or Mint running. Celeron chips are not an option but I'd be happy with an AMD X2 chip as thats what I run in my PC now.
Your thoughts gents ??


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not sure what it'd be like for gameing (I'll have to try for testing purposes
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