New lappy spec required

[Blackspeech]

My stepfather wants a laptop to use with broadband and some light work on accounts - he also wants to watch tv on it.

Desired base spec:

17 inch (good quality) widescreen monitor;
Digital Receiving TV card; (with remote if possible)
DVD RW Drive;
Wireless.

Must be of good build quality, with good battery life.
He will not play games on this nor do any design work - any suggestions?

Pricing: Unsure as he has to be convinced to spend the cash depending on what he gets for it. I doubt he wants to pay more than £1,000

Cheers in advance

[Gohan]

Cheapest option would be the Acer Aspire 9503EWSMi which can be had for under £650. I would personally buy the TV card separately as that would give you a lot more flexibility.

The ASUS AD7 is a nice notebook and can be had for just under £1000 specs are:

AMD Mobile Turion™64-MT30
Genuine Windows® XP Home
1024MB DDRII 533 Memory
100GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X700
17.1"WXGA+X-Glass Widescreen
High Resolution (1440X900)
Dual Layer (+/-) DVD-RW/CD-RW
Mini PCI Wireless LAN 802.11b/g
Media Card Reader 4 in 1
Built in Video camera (1.3M Pixels)
Azalia 5.1 audio, 4 x speaker (Built in)
Weight ~3.9Kg ,Battery Life ~ 3 hrs
2 Years Worldwide Warranty

[Blackspeech]

He went to Comet and bought a Toshiba Sat.

What can I say - an impulse buy. Sure he could have had a good spec from Acer and a better looking build for the same cash.

Thanks for your advice though.

[GuruJockStrap]

Can't go wrong with a Toshiba. They make great laptops. Although as you said, he could've got a better spec for the money or even that Toshiba model cheaper on the net.