Best Laptop For About £300

loonygooner

I am seeking a Laptop for my son and am hoping that I may get one for around the £300 mark as I am but a poor parent:p

He is 5 years of age and primarily use it for internet, music downloads, You Tube and most usual teenage things, apart from school work:mad:

Can someone advise what is a good computer on the market at present that has about 2Gb RAM, 160Gb Hard Drive and is has maybe a half decent graphics card?

Fingers crossed that you can help, I am thinking of Dell, but that is not an important requirement.

Thanks in anticipation

[Deleted User]

If you can stretch a little further to £340ish you could get:

Lenovo 3000 N500 Pentium Dual Core T3200 2GHz, 250GB HDD 2GB RAM, 15.4" TFT, DVD±RW, Vista Home Premium
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152652
Was £399.99
Now £343.85inc vat

Or

Asus X58L, Dual Core T3200 2.0GHz, 2GB (2x1GB) RAM, 160GB HDD, 15.4" WXGA, Gma X3100, DVD Supermulti, 802.11bgn Wifi, 6 Cell Battery, Vista Home Premium
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150658
Was £489.34
Now £340.98inc vat

Both however have onboard graphics which isn't ideal for gamers to say the least.

Also as you've mentioed, have a look on Dell's site on ar their laptop outlet...

loonygooner

Thanks davidmt83

Any ideas whether one has a superior name or not?
I suppose I heard some bad things about the ASUS and good things about the Lenova although that is just an impresion.
Anyone have any good/bad dealings with Dell or advice concerning buying?

Cheers

[Deleted User]

I'd say they were both decent brand names. Pretty similar laptops really, both have the same CPU, same RAM, same OS however Lenovo has the slightly better graphics card. Still onboard as I say though.

I know these are way over your budget but just to give you an indication of what you might have to pay to get differing grades of hardware:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151290 £480 a little better
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148709 £635 a feel powerhouse for gamers

Compare laptop CPUs: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html
Compare laptop graphics cards: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

loonygooner

Blimey, seems that he will just have to make do with the best budget computer I can find.

Anyone have any good/bad dealins or thoughts ref Dell?

hazelmere1

Hi , a friend of mine got an Advent laptop with 2gb ram and 250gb hard drive from dixons reduced to £299. He ordered it on wed this week . I think he got free delivery as well

loonygooner

Thanks hazelmere, it seesmthey are 'Sold Out'.

I keep noticing the Dell 1545 for £399, any information concerning this one http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0340798243.1231072501@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdeadegdljifeicflgceggdhhmdfon.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=557073&category_oid=-34420?

[Deleted User]

hazelmere1 wrote: »

Hi , a friend of mine got an Advent laptop with 2gb ram and 250gb hard drive from dixons reduced to £299. He ordered it on wed this week . I think he got free delivery as well

I'd steer clear of rebadged PCWorld brands but that's just me...

loonygooner

Deleted_User wrote: »

I'd steer clear of rebadged PCWorld brands but that's just me...

must admit that was my first impression.

It seems that not many pople have dealings with Dell which surprises me and makes me think that it may be a sign. I have a Acer Aspire 5670 at the moment which is 4 years old and has been a great laptop. I know that a lot of people have negative things said about Acer, but I cannot fault them so may look again.