Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

grumpycrab

Re: Asus X52F for £310. Very good. Asus are supposed to be reliable. About £50 cheaper than everywhere else. As a review on Amazon says "excellent for everyday use"
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253582

davidshads

littlesnuggy wrote: »

Is this Acer any good? Just seen it posted on HUKD
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/259424
I'm meant to be finding a new laptop for a colleague for general office work, email & internet...

Would this be ok for my needs?
I want to be able to download music and films to my ipod and transfer video from my camera to put on dvd.

grumpycrab

littlesnuggy wrote: »

Is this Acer any good? Just seen it posted on HUKD
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/259424
I'm meant to be finding a new laptop for a colleague for general office work, email & internet...

davidshads wrote: »

Would this be ok for my needs?
I want to be able to download music and films to my ipod and transfer video from my camera to put on dvd.

Too many questions... The Ebuyer Acer costs £350; its a powerful laptop but I'd have to have a 3 year warranty with it. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130533991522

OR for £370 buy this which has the warranty included. And a bigger disk. Cashback claiming is a pain but is with Lenovo rather than the retailer. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-i3-380m-win-64-4gb-ram-500gb-hdd-3-year-next-day-warranty-370-saveonlapto/961695

For lower budgets you don;t really need an i3-380M. Most new laptops will enable you to "download music and films to my ipod and transfer video from my camera to put on dvd". In which case buy a cheap Acer BUT still buy the 3 year warranty extension above.
e.g. for £250 http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/brand-new-acer-aspire-5552-laptop-amd-athlon-dual-core-2-2ghz-3gb-ram-320gb-hdd/961579

Note that cheap Acer reliability is being reported as poor (but the 3 year warranty mitigates that to a certain extent).

littlesnuggy

grumpycrab wrote: »

Too many questions... .

Sorry! Any pointers are really helpful, and we do appreciate your advice

I've now looked at the Asus posted above and think that might be a good alternative (if the Lenovo wasn't red I may have considered it!)

Thanks again

Pagal

Hello All! - Great laptop, great price: From ebuyer

NEW USER SO CANT POST LINK. ITS AN ACER ASPIRE 5750 - PRODUCT NUMBER 268391

2nd Gen intel Core i3 2310M, 4GB RAM,320GB HDD, bonus for some = 1 x USB 3.0!
For £379.94 (was £448.80).

Havent seen a better price for those awesome specs!

Tracyk_2

Is there a difference between ebuyer.com and ebuyer express that some links go to?
Would like a laptop for fil - he has a desktop at the mo - but mil struggling for a bday pressie for him and reckons a laptop might be her get out jail card! Under £300 if poss - as big a screen as poss, but only used for email, bit of surfing and MS Word. He may like to watch movies on it though if it were an option.

grumpycrab

grumpycrab wrote: »

Re: Asus X52F for £310. Very good. Asus are supposed to be reliable. About £50 cheaper than everywhere else. As a review on Amazon says "excellent for everyday use"
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253582

Now £300. Add 2GB for £16.59 (+P&P whatever it is) ->
Either
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=27BBF632A5CA7304
or
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=3328FC30A5CA7304

OnAndUp

I'm not an expert but thought I would post as this seems like a bargain to me:

Acer Aspire 5336 Laptop 3GB RAM 320GB HDD DUAL CORE

15.6" Win 7 Webcam BRAND NEW 12 MONTH EBUYER WARRANTY - £229.99

Here:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280700561754&_trkparms=clkid%3D855363644390574672

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!

stilltheone

daverob wrote: »

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