Help with buying a laptop

Marty_J

Well they could spend the extra getting Vista Business or Ultimate instead of Home Premium, or maxing out the HDD, or getting an external HDD for backups or something.

4743hudsonj

Marty_J wrote: »

Well they could spend the extra getting Vista Business or Ultimate instead of Home Premium, or maxing out the HDD, or getting an external HDD for backups or something.

would help if they said what they needed for this:D

all we can comment on is processor and ram really

DCodd

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

The latest version of sage payroll has slowed our systems down somewhat. Not sure why but the new "sweepy" logo from payroll has attached its self to our other sage products (Job Costing, Line 50). have asked Sage about the speed issues and the attachement of the logo etc but they couldn't help. So we had to installed extra GB of RAM to speed things up a bit.

All that just to say I would go for Minimum 3GB RAM and backup to a data stick as well as a server or computer, when our server went pop the data stick backup was invaluable!!!

Edit - we run xp pro.

davester

More likely your xp updates have slowed your computer down, I notice a huge difference when I install XP SP2 then after the SP3 update.

Also I wouldn't touch PCworld anymore, I had a TV in warranty and they refused to take it back for repair or replacement and told me I had to contact Samsung myself, I contacted samsung and they bent over backwards to get me a replacement before Christmas, Delievered it Christmas Eve, Now thats survice.

I reported PCWorld to trading standards as they just lied about their responsibility.


I still find Dell the best specs for the price either in their home or business sections

Gloomy_Past_Bright_Future

Just to say thank you to you all.

I have bought the packard bell one with the 4gb of ram and 320 gb HDD.

It is perfect!! and still fast too!!!

Thank you to you all - have a fab bank holiday, enjoy the sun!

GPBF x

MX5huggy

Oh dear a packed up bell!!!

Sorry OP

point3

This one for £349:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/407362/vostro-1520-15-4-display-core-2-duo/

arthro

I suggest you buy an Asus eee pc, which I bought just a couple of weeks now. It's cheap and small yet has very nice performance.

The model of my Asus eee pc is 1000h.

Some specs:
CPU - Intel Atom N270 1.60Ghz
Memory - 1Gig RAM
Battery - 6cell (7 hours standby time)
Width - 10 inches

*really cool to use, very handy

Jakg

Marty_J wrote: »

I think they're overkill, spec wise. For starters, there's not really much point having 4 GB of RAM if you don't have a 64 bit OS.

I'd disagree - 4GB of RAM is stupidly cheap (£27.50 was what I paid for 2x 2GB DDR800 sticks for mine, and then I could eBay the existing stuff). TBH that + a basic Dell would of done the OP fine.

arthro wrote: »

I suggest you buy an Asus eee pc, which I bought just a couple of weeks now. It's cheap and small yet has very nice performance.

The model of my Asus eee pc is 1000h.

Some specs:
CPU - Intel Atom N270 1.60Ghz
Memory - 1Gig RAM
Battery - 6cell (7 hours standby time)
Width - 10 inches

*really cool to use, very handy

I love netbooks to bits - but no. The Atom is suprisingly fast, but might not cut it too well here.

Plus I don't think the OP was looking for that much portability, another area where the netbooks excel...

Marty_J

Jakg wrote: »

I'd disagree - 4GB of RAM is stupidly cheap (£27.50 was what I paid for 2x 2GB DDR800 sticks for mine, and then I could eBay the existing stuff).

But why bother if, at best, your OS is only going to see just over 3 GB of it?

If you had a 1 GB video card, it gets even worse, and you could only use just over 2 GB of it.

You will never get to use 4 GB of RAM on a 32 bit version of Windows.

It might make you feel better that it's there, but it's not going to do anything.