Sub-£400 powerful laptops discussion

savings4me

hi,
I'm interested in this too - especially with the sales coming to an end.
Thanks

cheap_charlie

I bought a Dell 1545 laptop in Currys last week for my daughter's birthday.

It cost £399 and I bought it because I thought the spec was good - 250 gb hard drive and 3 gb RAM with Vista Home Premium installed. I set it up without any problems and it seems, thus far, to be fine.

I was going to post a link to it from the Currys website but its down at the moment

misermum

Ta. Curry's and PC World sites seem to have been down all day.

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Hmm I'm pondering buying a laptop at the mo... I would like to buy an extended warantee so I have piece of mind for 2-3 years... I wonder if prices will keep dropping over the next 6 months?....

cheap_charlie

misermum wrote: »

Ta. Curry's and PC World sites seem to have been down all day.

I noticed - LOL!

Here's the link to the laptop now the website is back up and running.

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0894314093.1231844556@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccekadegeldlkhgcflgceggdhhmdfoj.0&page=Product&sku=557073

coolagarry

vjain wrote: »

Hmm I'm pondering buying a laptop at the mo... I would like to buy an extended warantee so I have piece of mind for 2-3 years... I wonder if prices will keep dropping over the next 6 months?....

I read in the current 'Computer Shopper' that a desktop PC priced at £400 a few months ago now cost £450 because of the falling value of the £.
It may well be better to buy now rather than wait!

ThinkingOfLinking

:j If you want to look at them instore, in general, then do, but order online as you can use discount codes and get cashback; I used a £10 off code so got my £379 laptop for £369, and I also got £22.14 cashback through Quidco (they no longer work with John Lewis) so in reality, it only cost me about £330 (delivery was also free).

Snarf999

schutz wrote: »

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.

I'm interested to know if this really is the case. Dixons have a couple of Acer laptops around the £400 mark and we were possibly in the market to replace our current laptop.

Palm_Centro

Hi Folks, Just a warning really about 14 months ago I bought an Acer 5100 aspire laptop with all bells and whistles for £500 it has now blown the motherboeard and is too expensive to repair at £300 for a replacement motherboerd.

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Palm_Centro wrote: »

Hi Folks, Just a warning really about 14 months ago I bought an Acer 5100 aspire laptop with all bells and whistles for £500 it has now blown the motherboeard and is too expensive to repair at £300 for a replacement motherboerd.

That is why I like to buy a warantee with a laptop. When I bought a laptop from Dell 3 years ago I bought an extended warantee to take it to 3 years for only £65 in total.