Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

paulwaff

Can anyone see anything wrong with this deal:

HP Pavilion G6 Laptop, Intel Core i5, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 1Yr Warranty, Windows7

£399

ebay.co.uk/itm/261010135323#ht_6770wt_974

It's an i5 as tallymanjohn was suggesting.

Thanks for any help.

m5rcc

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2F8 Laptop, Intel Core i3, 6GB RAM, 640GB HDD, 15.6" HD, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit for £349.97 @ Ebuyer

m5rcc

HP Pavillion G6 Purple 2.4Ghz i3, 500GB, 4Gb RAM - £270

TakeThis

ACER Aspire AS5749-2334G75Mikk £249.99 from Argos Outlet.

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
- Intel Core i3 (i3 - 2330M, 2.20 GHz, 3 MB) -
HD 3000 Graphics
39.6 cm (15.6") LED - 16:9 WXGA - Active Matrix TFT Colour LCD - CineCrystal -
4 GB DDR3 SDRAM -
750 GB Serial ATA -
DVD-Super Multi DL drive -
1.3MP webcam -
Maximum Battery Run Time 4.50 Hour -
1yr Warranty C&R -
HDMI Port,
multi-in-1 card reader (Secure Digital™ (SD) Card, MultiMediaCard™ (MMC)),
McAfee Internet Security Suite Trial,
Microsoft® Office Starter 2010

m5rcc

Samsung Series 3 NP300E5A-A02DX 15.6" Laptop (Intel i5-2430M, 4GB RAM, 640GB) £299

Sammy-Jo_2

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?mfr=293

Think I have narrowed my search down to this one for my son who wants to use ut for gaming etc, can anyone spot anything obviously wrong with this as its about as much as his budget allows?

Also any recommendations on where to get word, excel, powerpoint from?

Bit of a novice to all this - many thanks for looking.

JDPower

Sammy-Jo wrote: »

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?mfr=293

Think I have narrowed my search down to this one for my son who wants to use ut for gaming etc

Are you talking internet/facebook style games or bought and installed games? If the latter you're well under spec/budget.

As for Office, if your son is a student you can get reduced price MS Office suites here: http://www.software4students.co.uk/

Or you can look at one of the freeware office suites such as Libre Office: http://www.libreoffice.org/

Sammy-Jo_2

Thanks for your reply. He would be looking at playing via the internet. I have just looked at one of the games that he plays and currently its using 42mb. Do you think that one would be suitable then?

marsbar989

m5rcc wrote: »

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-2F8 Laptop, Intel Core i3, 6GB RAM, 640GB HDD, 15.6" HD, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit for £349.97 @ Ebuyer

after seeing this and googling around I found this http://www.bhsdirect.co.uk/BH_Toshiba_Notebook_10060850/version.asp
add another £11 for 2 Gb of ram
Pretty good I thought. Yes I know it has no hdmi connection. But this is for a 14yr daughter who doesnt know what a hdmi connector even is.
I went ahead and purchased this. (thru quido for a bit of cash back).
It arrived Friday and I have to say I am very impressed with it.
I previously purchased a DELL insiprion 15r 14 months ago (i3 processor also).
The difference in performance between this tosh and the dell (according to the win7 benchmarks) is nothing to split hairs over.
Considering the cost of a i3 Dell this Tosh is good value for money.
I have ordered an additional 2Gb of ram - this should arrive mid week.

Total cost (with quidco) £315 for a i3 2.2Ghz cpu 320Gb Hd and 4Gb Ram.

1 plus point for Tosh is that the 2Gb fitted is a 1 x 2Gb so a slot is still free for the additional 2Gb of ram. I really thought it would be 2 x 1Gb. so would have to ebay that and purchase 2 x 2Gb.

1 minus point for the Tosh is that the 320Gb drive is split 2 x 160Gb. Why ????

JDPower

Sammy-Jo wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. He would be looking at playing via the internet. I have just looked at one of the games that he plays and currently its using 42mb. Do you think that one would be suitable then?

It would be ok but for the £337 you are looking at spending on that you should comfortably find a laptop with an i3 processor, which would make a considerable difference to performance. Just look at the post directly above - a Toshiba i3 for cheaper than the machine you linked to.