Help with buying a laptop

Gloomy_Past_Bright_Future

Please can someone help me, I am sick to death of looking at laptops and not really knowing or understanding what I need!

I need a laptop in effect to ensure we can run our business when we are not at home.

It would need to have on it Sage Instant Accounts, Sage Payroll, Outlook Express, Word, Excel and adobe.

So I want something that will cope with all the above and not be slow!

Looking around £500 spend (I hope!)

Thanks

asininity

Acer Aspire Gemstone Blue range. From AcerDirect site.

davester

Have you any other requirements for the laptop, screen size, memory, Drive size etc
The specifications for sage are

• Pentium® III (or equivalent), 1 GHz or higher (Pentium 4, 2 GHz recommended)
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 820 MB hard disk space (additional 100 MB needed for installation)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista
• 256-colour or higher SVGA monitor, optimized for 1024 x 768; supports 800 x 600 with small fonts
• CD-ROM drive
• Word and Excel integration requires Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007

You have alot of laptops that would cover that spec, But I do sympathize with you , I have been looking for a while

4743hudsonj

well to be honest, with that budget you will easily get a laptop capable of what yo want to do and more. the market for £500 laptops is so over saturated its jsut easier to tell you what you basically need and then you can decide on looks and any other features you find.

pc world website give you an idea of whats around and what youn get for your money but god forbid, dont buy from them, just use them as a reference.


you need:
core 2 duo processor 2ghz clock speed (AMD or INTEL but intel is preffered)
2 gb of ram at least (3/4gb would be better if on vista)
a hard drive i assume around 320gb? but you can decide that

and tbh thats it, all the other tech you can sink your teeth into is rather irrelevant for the uses you have listed, anything else is a plus

Gloomy_Past_Bright_Future

davester wrote: »

Have you any other requirements for the laptop, screen size, memory, Drive size etc
The specifications for sage are

• Pentium® III (or equivalent), 1 GHz or higher (Pentium 4, 2 GHz recommended)
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 820 MB hard disk space (additional 100 MB needed for installation)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista
• 256-colour or higher SVGA monitor, optimized for 1024 x 768; supports 800 x 600 with small fonts
• CD-ROM drive
• Word and Excel integration requires Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel 2003 or 2007

You have alot of laptops that would cover that spec, But I do sympathize with you , I have been looking for a while

Thank you, for that, I didn't even know that.

Can anyone just name a computer, with all the above..

Sorry to be a pain!

Not too keen on Acer, have friend who has big probs with theirs!

asininity

http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?nav=227&product=SOLV029&title=Dell+C640+P4+Mobile+2.0Ghz+Laptop+-+512Mb+-+30Gb+-+DVD-ROM+-+WiFi+-+XP+Pro+-+14.1+TFT

4743hudsonj

asininity wrote: »

http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?nav=227&product=SOLV029&title=Dell+C640+P4+Mobile+2.0Ghz+Laptop+-+512Mb+-+30Gb+-+DVD-ROM+-+WiFi+-+XP+Pro+-+14.1+TFT

thats going to be a little slow isnt it

just running ms word will strain it running xp, let alone running two things the op listed.

asininity

Gloomy_Past_Bright_Future wrote: »

Can anyone just name a computer, with all the above.

As GPBF requested.

Marty_J

Pretty much anything released within the last few years will do what the OP wants.

MX5huggy

Can't go wrong with a dell vostro

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/4x_vostro_1710?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd

they have full sized number keypad for doing the numbers (the one I have linked to not all vostros).

Get a 3 year next day warranty

davester

I quite like Dell I know lots of peeps with them and have no problems with them. and you can customize the system to suit your budget.