Laptop experts help needed

clem28_2

hi,
seen these laptops advertised , have £350 to spend . Can anyone recommend which one to buy and why?? or recommend another make.

HP 550 Laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo T5670 1.8GHz, 160GB HDD, 2GB RAM
quickfind code: 164844
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£330

or
Toshiba Satellite Pro L300-26P Laptop
Intel Pentium T4200 2 GHz Dual-Core
PSLB9E-03V003EN2GB
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£329

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been looking for weeks need help from the experts out there
many thanks

John_Gray

clem28 wrote: »

hi,
seen these laptops advertised , have £350 to spend . Can anyone recommend which one to buy and why??

Your question is back to front! You should be stating what you want from a laptop, what features it has to have, what you are going to run on it, and so on.

Otherwise the question resembles "Which is the best car?" Best mileage? Most comfortable seats? Largest boot? Fastest? ... and so on.

Humphrey10

They're all the same really. Will do word processing fine, and won't run new games at 1920x1200.

I'll repeat my previous answer to your other thread (although I have to admit I didn't notice you'd asked about 3 laptops, just looked at the 2 Toshiba ones. I personally wouldn't get the HP 550 one though, it's got integrated graphics):
Wow those are very similar.
If I only had £350 to spend I'd get a desktop as they are cheaper.
But if you need a laptop, out of those two I'd get the Toshiba Satellite Pro L300D-20R, from a quick Google it seems its graphics card and processor are better than the other one.