Best laptop for £500?

GunJack

OR....save yourself a packet and go refurb, e.g. check out argos' ebay clearence shop..refurb lappys with plenty of clout for what you want to do with it for £250-£280 with 12 month warranty......something like this:-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/15-4-TOSHIBA-l300-15-4-LAPTOP-DUAL-CORE-VISTA-WIFI_W0QQitemZ350237570394QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_Laptops_EH?hash=item518bc9355a&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262

£250 inc delivery, plus £20 for an extra 1GB RAM and a webcam...sorted for £270

...and I'm local to fix it if it does go wrong after 12 months

movingforward2010

ukbill69 wrote: »

I have a dell xps m1330 and love it. Best laptop ive owned.

I had a dell inspiron 1300 and it fell to bits, ive had 5 chargers, a motherboard , hard drive , a new screen and new fan , luckily under warranty so its sort of put me off dell for now

p1tse

how much would a macbook pro with student discount cost?

13" seems small though

Marty_J

p1tse wrote: »

how much would a macbook pro with student discount cost?

Around £750, with a three year warranty thrown in.

albionrovers

Anything with at least 3G of RAM in it.

daveyjp

I've just bought a Toshiba Satellite - £350.

http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=32736&category_id=311&manufacturer_id=0

Spend £500 and you can have much better spec, but it will probably not last any longer. I now buy cheap and replace every 3-4 years.

p1tse

Marty_J wrote: »

Around £750, with a three year warranty thrown in.

thanks

i had a quick look and looks like you need to order from uni campus
cousin is at uni so i could put it through my credit card

shame missed the £145 rebate as could have brought an ipod touch and sell it for say £100 and bring the £750 down to net £650 ;-)

ukbill69

wxmlad wrote: »

I had a dell inspiron 1300 and it fell to bits, ive had 5 chargers, a motherboard , hard drive , a new screen and new fan , luckily under warranty so its sort of put me off dell for now

What do you expect from a inspiron, its a budget machine. The XPS is premium laptop, as for other business models.

asininity

ukbill69 wrote: »

What do you expect from a inspiron, its a budget machine. The XPS is premium laptop, as for other business models.

Why would you expect that??? Does budget now mean broken?

Bowling_4_Gold

Makro have the Sony Vaio vgn-nw20ef/s with 3gb RAM, 320gb HDD, Built in camera, and Windows 7 :beer: for £389.99, although it would need to be bought B2B...