Need a Laptop - £400 budget

Nick_A_2

Hi, can anyone recommend a decent laptop for up to £400? I tried reading through the dell thread but sort of got lost after 8 pages!

Cheers,

Nick.

doubledark

What about this one, available from Woolworths for £399.99 (makes a change from Dell all day, eh? )

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=2974

keithwjones

Cheapest Del at present £379 includes VAT and shipping

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

Keith

whotook316

If you are looking for a cheap laptop you might want to check out Averetec. They make good portable laptops at v. good prices. I bought an Averetec 3270 last year from Misco for just over £500 - Pentium M 1.3, 512mb RAM, 80gb hardrive, 12.1" screen, DVD RW. I've been impressed with it would definitely recommend it over Dell.

jamiepearson

This one from ebuyer gets great reviews from those who bought it. good spec for the price compared to most

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=96518

Nick_A_2

How easy is it to upgrade the 256mb ram to say 512mb or even 1gig ram on the above laptops?

Nick.

jamiepearson

there will be a slot on the bottom which unscrews revealing the card. simply take out the memory and slot in the new one.

ram is one of the few things that can easily be upgraded in a laptop, and they are designed to make it easy for you, provided that you have the correct replacement memory card.

finding which is compatible memory is very straighforward - putting the laptop model into a search engine on a shop selling the memory will give you what is compatible (one off the top of my head is https://www.crucial.com) and, of course, this means that you can return it free, no problem if it turns out to be wrong

EDIT: upgrading ram will really help with performance. my advice with a laptop is - within your price band, get the best spec you can afford for things that arent upgradable in a laptop, such as the processor speed and unshared graphics memory. extra hard disk memory and ram memory can be upgraded later when you can afford it

libitina_2

https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk
These people are very good and have excellent prices too.

pin

libitina wrote:

www.laptopsdirect.co.uk
These people are very good and have excellent prices too.

They are good, but watch out, they do charge if you pay by a credit card (which I would recommend if you buy something as expensive as a computer)

Slapps

i went on the great laptop hunt when i was wanting 1 and found that comet were beat on alot of prices i got the acer travelmate 2413lci for £399 which wos the cheapest i could find it. the acer 3003 on ebuter is not wireless enabled so u have 2 buy the adapter but it still comes in @ a good price.

ram and wi-fi wos the main thing i looked @ as in the max it would take not wot it came with it, as 4 hard drive space well u can always add an external.

hope this helps
slapps

ollyshaw

I got a Dell inspiron 630m from the dell outlet this week.

1.7 gig pentium M
256mb RAM (HAve ordered another 512 for £28 on ebuyer)
40gig hd
wireless card
6cell battery
1280x800 widescreen

All for £395 delivered. I am delighted!!!!

Olly