Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

sparklydog

Cheaper Laptops mostly have a short battery life and you should make sure it's an on site warrenty.

Sending a laptop back for repair can cost £70 with Insurance.

If you live on the south coast save money buy from jersey southeast france is cheap at the moment.

NiftyDigits

sparklydog wrote: »

Cheaper Laptops mostly have a short battery life and you should make sure it's an on site warrenty.

Sending a laptop back for repair can cost £70 with Insurance.

If you live on the south coast save money buy from jersey southeast france is cheap at the moment.

This, of course, is complete nonsense.

Tawny75

Hello could I have some advice please?

We have saved hard and have a budget of about £300-320 for a laptop for DD. I already have office through work so that won't be a problem. It will be for homework and web browsing. She also plays Minecraft and Sims 3. Any advice would be fab so I can wrestle my desktop back from her!

blammo

Is there a thread for more expensive laptops? I'm looking for one as I'm starting up in business and am willing to spend up to £800 to £900.

NiftyDigits

blammo wrote: »

Is there a thread for more expensive laptops? I'm looking for one as I'm starting up in business and am willing to spend up to £800 to £900.

No. Perhaps start a separate thread, stating your requirements.

suiko

hi

I was v interested in the Asus X501-A (seems to have sold out at PCWorld etc).

But I think I need a CD/DVD drive, though - hard to install things without one? For example, a wireless adaptor? Or am I just sooo out of date?

It's just for email, Word and skype, really, and maybe a bit of simple photo editing. Word MUST have Track Changes, so I think the Microsoft Starter programme is no good. No games etc. Ideally with good build quality.

Any recommendations?

NiftyDigits

suiko wrote: »

hi

I was v interested in the Asus X501-A (seems to have sold out at PCWorld etc).

But I think I need a CD/DVD drive, though - hard to install things without one? For example, a wireless adaptor? Or am I just sooo out of date?

It's just for email, Word and skype, really, and maybe a bit of simple photo editing. Word MUST have Track Changes, so I think the Microsoft Starter programme is no good. No games etc. Ideally with good build quality.

Any recommendations?

Microsoft Office is not free, so if you want it you will have to pay for it. So you will have to build it into your budget. In other words, you may have to purchase a cheaper laptop, so as to have enough to purchase the Office suite or you perhaps use one of the free alternatives.

suiko

It's OK, I have looked into this and I can use Open Office, which also has a Track Changes facility.

Interested in Samsung RV520 too, and also maybe Lenovo G580? Or Packard-Bell Easynote TS11? Presumably I need to buy a wireless adaptor for any of these?

Decent sound quality would be a plus.

NiftyDigits

suiko wrote: »

It's OK, I have looked into this and I can use Open Office, which also has a Track Changes facility.

Interested in Samsung RV520 too, and also maybe Lenovo G580? Or Packard-Bell Easynote TS11?

Decent sound quality would be a plus.

For sound quality, you'll have to go into a shop, such as PC World and run tests for yourself. After testing, come back with your shortlist.
Then we can give recommendations and see if we can find it more cheaply.

suiko

Thanks. I don't have much time for this, unfortunately. Not going to be that picky, because basically whatever I get will probably be loads better than what I'm used to.

I imagine I need to buy a wireless adapter too? Have the router from my old PC.