Best Sub 550 Laptop?

paulcornwall

I'm looking for the best sub 550 Laptop to be used as the main PC in the house. Will be used for Primarily for internet acccess and Ms Office however will need to be able to be good with graphics apps.
If will need to be from the highstreet so any doscount codes, voucher would also be useful, over to you guys!

Funkimunki

The Acer Aspire 7720 is great, good ram, good graphics (you won't be able to play the latest games on full graphics but they will work), and a 17" screen which is usefull if you are all using it as a family computer. It comes in different versions including more ram, more graphics memory and bigger hard drive but a decent spec version and also very cheap can be found at http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139032 (399 is cheeeap!)
or you could get the G version (games) with dedicated graphics memory (which is better for games or running imaging/video programmes) for £449.97 down from £659.97 (saving £210 ) from http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_7720G-5A2G16Mi_LX.ALN0X.488/version.asp?refsource=ldfroogle

hope that helps. I use the 5920g which is a smaller screen but I have a higher spec version and it was around £600 but i use it for video editing and photography editing and it works a treat even when using Premier pro and Photoshop CS3 together! this is mainly due to having high ram and a dedicated graphics card.

hope this helps a little.
The only thing i would say is that the keyboard and mouse aren't great so i plug in a keyboard and mouse and don't touch the laptop which is actually a lot more comfortable anyway.