Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

grumpycrab

^ unfortunately the Asus is out-of-stock. (EDIT: or perhaps only 1 left) Depends what your budget is. I assumed it was around £250 which is why I mentioned the refurb Toshiba.
I'm not a great fan of refurbs but if you get a good one - there is a full 12 month warranty - it should be ok. If you are just getting a laptop for email, browsing, music, films, light office stuff (documents) this should also be ok.

neilj203

Thanks.
I was thinking more of the ASUSx54h at £349 with ebuyer. I'm wary of refurbished ones, but wondered whether the Toshiba one via argos ebay outlet was really good value compared with above mentioned ASUS.

NAR

I have just bought the Dell N5050 from Asda at £339. Early impressions are very good, set up was very straightforward and response time is excellent.

grumpycrab

neilj203 wrote: »

Thanks.
I was thinking more of the ASUSx54h at £349 with ebuyer. I'm wary of refurbished ones, but wondered whether the Toshiba one via argos ebay outlet was really good value compared with above mentioned ASUS.

The ASUSx54h CPU is supposedly 40% better than the Toshiba. In the real-world (email, browsing) you may not notice the difference.

madbird_2

I really need help, my head spinning! Needs are Internet, emails, few games on Facebook. £350 ideally budget, available from Tesco good as have over £50 clubcard vouchers. Had a look at a few, I'm fat fingered like keyboards on toshiba and Samsung. Is this reasonable http://www.tesco.com/direct/samsung-rv511-a0cuk-laptop-intel-pentium-4gb-500gb-156in-display-silver/215-9493.prd?skuId=215-9493&pageLevel= or liked look of the one for £329 Toshiba one in Currys. Thanks

rothchick

After spending way too much time looking at various different laptops and getting confused I'm thinking of getting this one

http://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-5733-laptop-intel-core-i3-3gb-500gb-156-display/212-5169.prd?skuId=212-5169&pageLevel=

TakeThis

rothchick wrote: »

After spending way too much time looking at various different laptops and getting confused I'm thinking of getting this one

http://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-5733-laptop-intel-core-i3-3gb-500gb-156-display/212-5169.prd?skuId=212-5169&pageLevel=

?? I would get an ASUS over that every time.

Examples here and here

rothchick

just spotted your links! thanks

rothchick

The i5 once sounds good but its out of stock. Have seen it on comet http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Laptops/buy-ASUS-X53E-SX1111V-Laptop/781231
Its a different colour but same model so am assuming its the same?

silvercar

I need to replace my desktop, and I'm thinking that I wouldn't lose anything by getting a laptop instead. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse and a newish acer screen that I could plug into the laptop when needed, so what would my loss be?

My current desktop is 8 years old, spec is:

MS Windows XP
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
991 MB RAM(think this was upgraded from the original)
NVIDIA GeForce2 Integrated GPU.

I don't know what half that stuff means, the computer was built by a mate who know longer builds computers for people so it would be a question of buying something off the shelf.

Could I get something better in a laptop for around £350? I don't want refurbished and I don't want Dell.

Used for emailing, internet and the odd facebook game. I have noticed that the current machine is slow on games and multi-tasking so do want something faster. Could I do that on a budget of £350 for a laptop or am I better getting a desktop?