Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

Cacran

I am looking to get a new laptop. I have seen a Dell 1545 for £399.99 and a Toshiba C660-19e for £349.99 Both at Tesco. which would be the best one?

Sport_Billy

Cacran wrote: »

I am looking to get a new laptop. I have seen a Dell 1545 for £399.99 and a Toshiba C660-19e for £349.99 Both at Tesco. which would be the best one?

Horses for courses, the £399 Dell 1545 looks more powerful (processor, memory speed, better graphics card) and that's probably why it ships with Windows 7 Premium whilst the Toshiba ships with Windows 7 Basic.

But, and a big but, it looks like the Dell only has wireless g, whereas the Toshiba has wireless n (wireless n is faster than wireless g).

Personally, I couldn't bring myself to pay £399 for a laptop without wireless n.

Out of those 2, I wouldn't choose either, but continue shopping around. The wireless n Samsung rv510 looks quite good (£349 Sainsburys introductory offer, Tescos £389) as does the MSI CR500 from Argos (£357), eMachines E640 from Argos (£349) etc

staggy

lee7421 wrote: »

really keen on acer aspire 5742 i3 4gb 250gb at comet(linked above), seems a lot for the money. only problem is its out of stock :mad: anyone know where i can find the same laptop at a similar price? or if it will come back in to stock?

thanks!:T

It's on Amazon for £379 - less RAM (3GB) but bigger HD (320GB)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Notebook-i3-370M-processor-Wireless/dp/B004EBUX12/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294850238&sr=8-1

Cacran

Thanks Sport Billy. I will take a look at he samsung:beer:

Cacran

I have just seen the samsung RV510AOB from 123 electrical for £348.99. It has Memory 2GB Hard drive 500GB. Is this better than the 3GB memory 320GB?

johhn_2

can anyone recommend me a good deal on laptop under 400 quid but with both eSATA and HDMI which I can seem to find.cheers

gary8080

If you're buying a laptop until £500 just make sure you don't get a netbook, they are so slow and you can get a much more powerful regular one - admittedly with a 15 inch screen - for the same price...

loupoppins

OK .... need some very basic advice.
I am a VERY non techie person! I have had a netbook for the last 2 years which seems sadly to have died! I now need to replace it, but want to upgrade to a regular laptop as I have recently gone back to work and will need to do more stuff on my laptop.(although my netbook has been absolutely fine for my needs so far!)
My main uses will be preparing word documents and web browsing , but would be good if I could also prepare power point presentations on it too. Also I will store my photos on it, and will put photoshop elements on it. I have a VERY limited budget, up to £350 max, but preferably closer to £ 300.
I really dont need anything fancy...wont be watchig videos or gaming or listening to music on it. It doesnt need to be especially fast (we have snail paced broadband anyway!)Would prefer to avoid toshiba as have used 2 in the past and hate them! Oh and other thing I would REALLY like is a touchpad with scrolling function.
Need one ASAP and would be VERY grateful for advice

FrugalRed

@dreamypuma just popped in for a skim read and stumbled across your dell outlet store advice, I'd never heard of it before now. Headed over there right now to have a gander at what's on offer. thanks for the advice.

craigyc999

Hi all,

I have found this laptop on Amazon, now knowing very little about laptops to me it seemed good value for the money (4gb ram 500gb HD)

I am hoping that one of you guys would confirm if it is worth going for. I am only going to be using for browsing the internet, email etc.. no gaming.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Craig