Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

martinbsp

grumpycrab wrote: »

Very hot deal. i3 laptop with 3 year warranty £300.
Voucher for 3 year warranty is WTYFREE
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5742_Windows_7_Laptop__LX.R4F02.081/version.asp?refsource=ldawin

On the 3-year Warranty info page it says normal wear and tear is excluded. How would they quantify that? Is that normal terminology?

czarownik

Hello
Any fast laptop for browsing the internet?
£300 budget thanks

grumpycrab

czarownik wrote: »

Hello
Any fast laptop for browsing the internet?
£300 budget thanks

There are 2 i3 laptops above; the Play one is £330 and the 3 year warranty one is £300 (deal until 10am Monday morning). The latter one is raising questions about the difficulty of claiming £100 cashback and the effectiveness of the warranty.

emma.king

I am pretty much a newbie when it comes to electronics. It's quit ironic, since I spend most of my time at work behind a computer and am on facebook all day long. I've never really had the need for a USB stick, but I came across this one and was wondering if it's a good deal and is it what I need. I want to make a backup of my pics and some documents. Would a 4GB stick like this be any good for that purpose, or would I need a larger one? Sorry if it sounds stupid:S

I am not permited to add links yet, so I'll try it like this. www .couponmonster .co.uk/promotions/promotion/playcom-usb-stick-e649

grumpycrab

You should have posted in the main forum, but a 4GB will be fine, assuming you don't have more than 4GB of pics/docs. Or this.

HipsDontLie_2

It's someone in the families’ birthday soon and in each chipping in we've probably got ~£450 together to put towards a laptop.

My thoughts in browsing the thread was to get the samsung from play @ £329 (see above) and then maybe purchase an extra years warranty from ebuyer ~£99 with it being a present.

I am however doubting the idea of buying additional warranty, in the past i got caught out on a high spec acer (>£800) after just over a year and hence why i am thinking about doing this.

If I decided not to I would have an extra £100 to go towards the laptop but being something that would be used for general browsing and a bit of entertainment by the kids is it really worth doing this!?

grumpycrab

I don't know whether any 1 make is more reliable than any other but Toshiba do good value warranty extensions. http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/services/warranty-extension/#
I've got a budget Toshiba and its fine so far (touch wood). What will the family member use the laptop for? e.g. connect to TV; games;... I'll have a look (not much around at the moment; apart from Dell refurbs but I guess that would be an insult)

HipsDontLie_2

It'll pretty much just end up being a replacement for his family desktop, used by them all for general dogs body stuff but would never really be pushed in anyway I wouldn't have thought!?

The Toshiba warranties are certainly an eye opener with regard to value though so thanks for that. Anything that catches your eye I'd be grateful to hear - in seeing the [EMAIL="3yr@~£50"]3yr@~£50[/EMAIL] I would be happy to go above the £350/400 mark if a worth while Toshiba.

Thanks

grumpycrab

"Best" Toshiba is something like this (general good all-rounder but nothing stunning). Argos Here's the full specs (with Compatible Services tab to show extra warranty cost). Toshiba website

Or
This Acer is almost identical but £100 cheaper. 1 year warranty. Has HDMI, better webcam. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190509775512#ht_4366wt_1139

Or this Toshiba also from Argos. This has a very good CPU, but average(*) everything else (like the Play.com Samsung). I don't know what the exact model number of this is but its got a free 2 year warranty. (Think this is model C660-1F1 - you cannot get a 3rd year warranty on this.)

(*) by average I mean disk, memory, graphics are all average. The webcam on these Toshibas is best described as basic.

benman00

the two most important things to look for is the processor and the memory, the hard drive and battery life are just bonuses

i found these 2 which might intrest you the first is a hp with pentium dual core 3gb ram 320gb hard drive and windows 7 for £350

go to comet website and type in 676446 in there search bar

the second if your willing to go to £400 is an asus with the I3 processor (v.good) 3gb ram 320gb hard drive and win 7 for £400

go to comet website and type in 698903 in there search bar

hope these help