Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

Simran

JDPower wrote: »

That covers just about any laptop doesn't it? You say 13.3" screen or nearest - nearest in which direction, are you wanting smaller or bigger?

Thanks - Ideally I want a 13.3" with a DVD drive etc but as it seems impossible to find one on that budget, I would be interested in sizes up to 14-15" if possible.

Cheers

theloft

missdrexie wrote: »

Hi, my son is after a laptop for schoolwork and was looking at the Dell 1545 BTS but after looking at tesco as mentioned the Acer 5332 seems to have a similar spec - I think? We will be buying the office home and student from ww.software4students.co.uk as he needs to make powerpoints. Can you advise on which laptop overall would be better value please? Any advice will be greatly appreciated! :-)

I would go for the Acer, if my experience of Dell is anything to go by ! However, if your son wants to do gaming on his laptop, you would probably need a higher spec. with a better CPU etc.

456789

Does someone know places where this is available?

SAMSUNG NP-R519-JA05UK

Black/Silver R519 PDC T4300 3GB 500GB DVDRW 15.6 INCH HD Win7 HP
or something similar

please see: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2279199

missdrexie

Thanks loft, he doesn't use games at all so we'll go for the acer. :T

ashtondav

All I want is the cheapest 14 or 15" + laptop. Its only real use is surfing plus a little word and excel - or wahtever openoffice call it.

I bought a HP Compaq CQ60 last year which i am happy with. With a voucher and buying through quidco i got it for £240. Don't want to spend more than £250 and don't want a netbook/mini laptop.

Can't find anything that cheap this year.

Ideas?

s0678727

i'm looking for a laptop for around this price which could play football manager 2010 smoothly, any suggestions or should i pay a bit more?

gumbarge

Hello

I am looking for a laptop that will be mainly used for just surfing the net and a little use of office packages

I already have a 500gb external hard drive so a big hard drive is not essential.

I think I have wittled it down to these 4 (from HUKD links), butbeforeI goahead I would appreciate any thoughts on perhaps which one is most suitable.... or even if there is something out there much cheaper - as these seem great but I may be paying for things I dont need


http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5082432/Trail/searchtext%3ESAMSUNG%20LAPTOP.htm?storeId=10001&referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fstatic%2FProduct%2FpartNumber%2F5082432%2FTrail%2Fsearchtext%3ESAMSUNG+LAPTOP.htm&jspStoreDir=argos&_%24ja=tsid%3A11674%7Cprd%3A1546795&referrer=COJUN&cmpid=COJUN

http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0124904735.1266595981@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadejjihlhekcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&chain=Dixons&int=home-carousel05&sku=957905&channel=WEB&page=Product

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/589502/asus-ul30a-13-3-1-7kg-culv-dual-cor?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-9492.aspx

thansk a lot

poppy10_2

gumbarge wrote: »

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5082432/Trail/searchtext%3ESAMSUNG%20LAPTOP.htm?storeId=10001&referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fstatic%2FProduct%2FpartNumber%2F5082432%2FTrail%2Fsearchtext%3ESAMSUNG+LAPTOP.htm&jspStoreDir=argos&_%24ja=tsid%3A11674%7Cprd%3A1546795&referrer=COJUN&cmpid=COJUN

http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0124904735.1266595981@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjadejjihlhekcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&chain=Dixons&int=home-carousel05&sku=957905&channel=WEB&page=Product

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/589502/asus-ul30a-13-3-1-7kg-culv-dual-cor?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-9492.aspx

Either of the first two should be fine. The third and fourth ones have weaker processors but are around the same price, so I'd avoid them.

Although I think this Dell at £399 delivered is better than any of those you have posted - it has a newer more powerful Core i3 processor, and more than enough RAM and hard drive capacity.

gumbarge

thanks a lot - i will look into it

what is the battery life like do you know ? - thinking about it I guess that is one important criteria for the laptop - i think one of my initial 4 had a battery life of 9 hours !!!

JDPower

gumbarge wrote: »

what is the battery life like do you know ? - thinking about it I guess that is one important criteria for the laptop

The Dell site used to allow you a choice of batteries but looking at that link it looks like they no longer allow customisation of components. Anyone know if that's the case or am I just missing an obvious link somewhere?

EDIT: Having looked again it seems it's just the Inspiron they don't allow customisation of for some reason :huh: