Laptops

[Craig]

Hi Guys, with my 18th coming up i will have a bit of money to spend, and ive always wanted a laptop! And with me playing games less and less there is no need for my desktop (still play some games on my desktop, but litrally only twice a week) At the moment i cant spend more than £800, im just after a bit of advice really, as im not so hot on the laptop scene! If anyone can find me a Acer or Fujitsu Siemens laptop, then i can get them for cost price (ie, no vat) from work At the moment im looking at the ACER 1501LCe which is £785, or the Apple iBook 12" which is £799

Any reccomendations are welcome

Cheers,

Craig

[daverobev]

One thing I can promise about the iBook is that you'll get great battery life, and a very nice, intuitive OS.

The problem is the relatively weak graphics and non-upgradeability. Getting the HDD out is a right pain.

If you can get a nice Fuji/Acer Pentium-MII (what're those chips, Dothan rather than Banias, or vice versa? Never can remember - 2Mb L2 cache anyway) with a 5700 or 9600 gfx chip and widescreen....go for it!

[LouG]

I saw this on ebuyer http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=63055
it costs £757 so it's under you budget and it's had good reviews so far. There are also several acer laptops on ebuyer.

[shamus21]

what type of processors are you looking at for the cpu and graphics.

[Craig]

Well i decided that if i wanted to replace my desktop id have to go the full hog, and im ordering the Acer Aspire 2023 WLMi next tuesday! Specs are as follows...

Aspire 2023WLMi
# Mobile Intel® Centrino™ technology
# Intel® Pentium® M 1.6GHz CPU
# 15.4" widescreen WXGA colour TFT LCD with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution
# 512MB DDR333 Memory
# 60GB HDD
# DVD-RW Super Multi Drive (Ram / - / +) Internal slot
# 128MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 9700
# 3D Stereo Sound + Subwoofer
# 4 in 1 card reader
# Gbit LAN 10/100/1000
# Wireless LAN 802.11g Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100
# Li-lon battery (Up to 5 hours usage)

# Software: Windows® XP Home, Norton Anti-Virus 2003, Power DVD, NTI CD-Maker
# I/O Ports: 3x USB 2.0, S-Video, Firewire, Parallel, 56k Modem, Audio in/out, Infrared, PCMCIA slot
# Warranty: 1 year Collect and Return
Picture!
So all in all im a happy chappy.. what you lot think?

Craig

[shamus21]

Well i decided that if i wanted to replace my desktop id have to go the full hog, and im ordering the Acer Aspire 2023 WLMi next tuesday! Specs are as follows...

Aspire 2023WLMi
# Mobile Intel® Centrino™ technology
# Intel® Pentium® M 1.6GHz CPU
# 15.4" widescreen WXGA colour TFT LCD with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution
# 512MB DDR333 Memory
# 60GB HDD
# DVD-RW Super Multi Drive (Ram / - / +) Internal slot
# 128MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON™ 9700
# 3D Stereo Sound + Subwoofer
# 4 in 1 card reader
# Gbit LAN 10/100/1000
# Wireless LAN 802.11g Intel® PRO/Wireless 2100
# Li-lon battery (Up to 5 hours usage)

# Software: Windows® XP Home, Norton Anti-Virus 2003, Power DVD, NTI CD-Maker
# I/O Ports: 3x USB 2.0, S-Video, Firewire, Parallel, 56k Modem, Audio in/out, Infrared, PCMCIA slot
# Warranty: 1 year Collect and Return
Picture!
So all in all im a happy chappy.. what you lot think?

Craig

How much is it going to hit your pocket for.

[Craig]

£1110, without VAT. Getting it through work so i dont have to pay VAT About £1350 with vat tho

Cant wait

[shamus21]

£1110, without VAT. Getting it through work so i dont have to pay VAT About £1350 with vat tho

Cant wait

Have Fun Cr4iG

[Zathras]

Sounds nice. Personally the screen res is a bit low for my liking, but it's a good price and decent spec gfx card wise too

[rory1984]

If it's not too late - consider the Apple iBook/Powerbook 12" with educational discount... Good laptops, good prices.

[paradidle]

You SERIOUSLY should have considered The Dell 8600's and 9100's;-

9100:

P4 3.0 With HT
512 333 ram
9700 128mb
60+ HD
Widescreen 15" 1200x800+
ALl the usual...

With tax off it came to £1028 When I did it. The better option imho.

[Craig]

I compleatly forgot about this thread

I bought my laptop a few weeks ago now and its specs are in my sig, very nice for £1099

[FarmerJon]

Just out of interest, where did you buy from??

[Craig]

NicePC.co.uk