Sub-£400 powerful laptops discussion

Capricorn_One

I bought a HP 530 (Intel Core2Duo 1.6Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 15.4" screen) off Ebay.
Managed to knock the seller down from £300 to £280 cash and saved on delivery by collecting it.
I think it's a really nice laptop. Build quality is excellent for the price. The only minus is the battery time of only a couple of hours. Not a great problem for me.

If you look on the net, it gets great reviews.

Capricorn_One

toottifrootti wrote: »

Hi hunsbury0
thanks for the link - Staples site says its for business cutomers only?? I am guessing that you think this is a good laptop? I though it was better to have core 2 duo processor rather than a dual core - or have I got it the wrong way round?
TF

Yes, Core2Duo is also dual core but a newer version offering better performance and requiring less power. I don't think the older dual core is much slower, though.
Athlon Turion processors are also dual core.

It *is* confusing I admit.

asandwhen

hunsbury0 wrote: »

Staples have this : Toshiba L300-13R Laptop - Intel Dual Core Processor, 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard Disk, 15.4" Display, Vista Home Premium
for £340.42

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CT=1&Description=UK_CL_Laptops+-+Toshiba&CatIds=21797,35750,90634&webid=396278&affixedcode=WW


Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor - T2390
Clock Speed: 1.86GHz
Memory: 2GB
Hard Drive: 250GB
Display: 15.4" WXGA TruBrite
Optical Drive: DVD - Super Multi Drive (D/L)
Graphics: Intel GL960
Operating Software: Microsoft Vista Home Premium
Other Software: Works & Office HST Trial
Audio: built-in stereo speakers
Webcam: Built-in camera & microphone
56 Kbps data and 14.4 Kbps fax

This price excludes VAT would make it £399 - they have it in there store as I was looking at it before I purchased the above Sony laptop.

shoperholicnot

I am looking for a new laptop for my daughter idealy under £400,
must be a reliable make, have Good speed 2GHz plus and good sized memory and hard drive, preferably with dedicated graphics. its going to be used mainly for surfing really. tried to get the acer 5920 from pc world but they dont appear to have any!
any body got any ideas?
thanx

Froggitt

Dell Studio 15 Pentium dual core with ATI Mobility Radeon graphics card 2Gb RAM, 160Gb HDD £399 - I ordered this last night, paid £29 extra for webcam for daughter.

hunsbury0

asandwhen wrote: »

This price excludes VAT would make it £399 - they have it in there store as I was looking at it before I purchased the above Sony laptop.

Sorry, I did not realise that VAT was not included in the price.
I will try to ammend the post if I can.
Thank you

shoperholicnot

I have managed to narrow my laptop hunt down to 2 models (i think) :rolleyes:

i really need to get one from a shop rather than online as no one at home for delivery

trying to choose between these 2 but which one lol
http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/482129/SONY-VGN-NR38E-S.CEK?cm_sp=FeatureEnd-_-Search_Result-_-position2

or this:

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/692890

any opinions on which is best? thanks in advance

MiM

Makro are ofering from Weds Sep 10 a Song Vaio VGNNR38M/S,CEK notebook with 15.4 WXGA display, 2048MB DDR SDRAM and 250GB HDD and Windows Vista Home Premium for £339.99 plus VAT.

I'm told that's better spec than the Vaio the OP asks about. Any thoughts?

sk240

Out of these i would go with the Acer, although the deal from tesco for the dell inspiron is better

shoperholicnot wrote: »

I have managed to narrow my laptop hunt down to 2 models (i think) :rolleyes:

i really need to get one from a shop rather than online as no one at home for delivery

trying to choose between these 2 but which one lol
http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/482129/SONY-VGN-NR38E-S.CEK?cm_sp=FeatureEnd-_-Search_Result-_-position2

or this:

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/692890

any opinions on which is best? thanks in advance

schutz

Avoid Acers like the plague, everyone knows of their non-existant customer support and poorly made laptops that break within a year if your very fortunate. My friend had his for about 5 months of an 18 month period where it spent plenty of time at Acers so called warranty department who would hold onto it for months and return it in the same or worse state. They may be cheap for the performance but there is a huge reason why. My 2nd Acer broke yesterday (overheating again) and this makes it 2 faulty acers in 7 months and seen as im in Uni its a bit of a hassle, I had only had this one for a few weeks after I got the other one refunded, luckily Asda are refunding me on my faulty one now.
I think I will opt for a good company, I like the Sony Vaio at play.com and with the RAC code it is a pretty decent price but I may wait a while as there are quite alot of Vaio deals in the past month I have noticed.