What's the best laptop i can get from pc world?

grex9101

Hi guys,

Have been given an offer from my work that lets me get a "loan" (tax fee and can pay it back over 3 years) for a computer for up to £1300 BUT i have to get it from pc world! AAARRRGGHH!

Already have a pretty nippy desktop, but want a laptop for convenience, it'll only cost me about 30 quid a month, and my pay rise should absorb that.


Can anyone advise me as to what spec i can get for this amount?

Looking for a desktop replacement, relatively futureproof and able to run windows vista.
Not too bothered about hdd, as got 720gig on my desktop, can buy an external too.
Must have a dvd writer, and 1gig memory.
Not too sure about processor, but portability isn't a factor, batery life needn't be great, would rather have a fast pc.

Can anyone help?

cheers.

ollyshaw

I like the look of the compaqs with the AMD chips

COMPAQ V5030 AMD TURION64 MOBILE PROCESSOR ML-32 1.80GHz LAPTOP
(222200)

COMPAQ V5094 AMD TURION64 MOBILE TECHONOLOGY ML-37 2.0GHz LAPTOP
(951210)

Maybe buy a big RAM chip an put it in yourself?

Olly

grex9101

cool, how do the amd chips compare? (my desktop has a p4 3.0ghz)

certainly, the V5094 specs seem good (the other one's a bit too underpowered), although the 128mb graphics seems a bit puny

cheers

dccarm

Do you have to buy it retail, or through their business account? There's a big difference both in prices and product range.

grex9101

as far as i'm aware it's retail. we get a voucher in about a month, then need to go into pc world to spend it

ollyshaw

grex9101 wrote:

cool, how do the amd chips compare? (my desktop has a p4 3.0ghz

AMD's are great on the desktop at the mo, my 64bit 3500+ compiles my thesis twice as quick as a intel 3.0ghz

I cant vouch for the mobile chip, but i am itching to try them out!

Olly