Best Cheapest 'Decent' Laptop

crazygeordiegirl

Hi All,

Having found myself a decent laptop pre christmas I am now on the hunt for a one for my nephew.

He will be using it mainly I would assume to play games/look on internet/homework.

Budget is £240 tops.

Im being tempted by this one:http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0298096393.1249651971@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadehmhgkjfgcflgceggdhhmdfhk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=924904&category_oid=-34420

at the minute, was thinking get this and maybe add another 1gig memory to it?

Any help much appreciated

:beer:

m5rcc

Ei? Ei?? Never heard of them. Probably some rehashed Advent from Outer Mongolia.

Must it be new? I would trawl eBay for better value...

crazygeordiegirl

m5rcc wrote: »

Ei? Ei?? Never heard of them. Probably some rehashed Advent from Outer Mongolia.

Must it be new? I would trawl eBay for better value...

Refurbed or new, anything offering 12 month warranty, I can't risk him spending his birthday money on anything without getting a warranty!

m5rcc

You could always get one with some warranty remaining and then extend it with a third-party.

£240 wont get you super-far new. How about this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159081?

crazygeordiegirl

m5rcc wrote: »

You could always get one with some warranty remaining and then extend it with a third-party.

£240 wont get you super-far new. How about this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159081?

Too expensive still

I know that the budget is tight, I just want to get him the best possible laptop for his pennies!

m5rcc

I would then seriously consider nearly new via eBay. Even this eBay comes with a paltry 1GB....

4743hudsonj

if you really really push an extra £50 you can get a real bargin and get a laptop with a core 2 duo processor and a large screen

plus a renowned brand with good reliability

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_L300-29_Laptop_PSLB9E-04L003EN/version.asp?PID=1049

or another £10 on that
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/asp/versions.asp?rewrite=Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_L300D-20R_Laptop_PSLC9E-00V001EN&pagetype=version&PID=1049

this also has a duel core processor(slightly better than the other)
more hard drive space
2gb of ram not 1 which is useful
and similar graphics capability's

one word of warning is that those prices deduct the £50 cashback offer

so to actually buy the laptop you need to add £50 on to the price which you later claim back by sending a for to toshiba who credit you the amount bringing the overall cost to what is advertised

so your nephew will need help to afford it initially

but i really strongly recommend these two laptops

theyre so much better than anything else you will fond for £250 and are worth spending the extra money for the features

m5rcc

Dell outlet: http://outlet.euro.dell.com/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

4743hudsonj

m5rcc wrote: »

Dell outlet: http://outlet.euro.dell.com/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

£420 is the cheapest they have

m5rcc

saw one for £218

Marty_J

4743hudsonj wrote: »

£420 is the cheapest they have

There are ten pages of laptops around the £250 mark.

Just change the search at the top to "Inspiron Notebooks" (under "stockrooms").