The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

pepsi_max2k

Geez, just spent 30 mins writing this lot out at HUKD, hit post, told me I wasn't logged in and lost the lot. So, their loss MSE's gain

Best PC World 17" lappy refurbs.
YAWJULY08 = 5% pcw, REFURB10 = dixons £10 off refurb lap, FREDEL149 = dixons free del til tonight.
Quidco 5% pcw til 11th, 3% dixons.

HP DV9702EA - £339.99 from dixons with codes (would be cheaper from pcw but they're currently not allowing purchases for it).
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/305728
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/321957-321957-3329744-64354-64354-3632106-3722400.html?jumpid=oc_R1002_UKENC-001_HP%20Pavilion%20dv9702ea%20Notebook%20PC&lang=en&cc=uk

Advent 9517 - £308.94 with codes.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/854682
http://www.uniwill.com/products/value/l75ii/l75ii.php

Fujitsu-Siemens Li 1818 - £299.44 with codes.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/868380
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/home/products/notebooks/amilo_li_18xx.html


EDIT: !!!!!!! just did it again here! ok well no stats then. i'm cursed with this post.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html

figure stats out yourselves as i'm destined never to get them down anywhere. fwiw HP - TL-60 + GMA 8400 GS, Advent T5250 + GMA X3100, Fuji T5300 + GMA 950 (and the only one stuck at 2 GB mem, others are 4GB expandable).

snowqueen555

pcworls refurbished have very good prices, but i cannot find any info about their warranties on these laptops etc so i would rather not buy them

pepsi_max2k

yeah i posted here about that yesterday

They all say "Includes standard manufacturers warranty" which for new ones is usually 12 months from manfacturers, though i don't know how this differs for refurbs (usually it's the same).

Most of them actually state this specifically in the list (eg the Fuji Li1818 says "THIS IS A REFURBISHED PRODUCT AND COMES WITH A FULL 12 MONTHS WARRANTY.". The ones that don't may just be lazy description writers. There's deffinately a lot of Advent ones that don't say this and these are DSGi's own brand laptops so I don't know if there's a connection there or not. Either way you've got at least the 7 day cooling off + a few weeks to ensure it's not faulty.

Io07

Hi
I'm looking for a new laptop; we already have a sony NR21 but DH uses it a lot after work and I've now been 'granted' £500 (!) to find myself a laptop!

I would like to buy a sony/HP; will need to be fast,email,surfing,watching movies (HD),wifi (& maybe bluetooth). a webcam would be great but not essential. oh dear, am I asking too much for £500??

I missed out on this deal from john lewis:
http://www.johnlewis.com/230472317/Product.aspx
HP DV6799, 15.4',T8100 core2duo 2.10gz,2 mb ram, 250 gb HDD, multi card reader, bluetooth - all for £499

then saw this on amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Dual-Core-Processor-Hard-drive-Accelerator/dp/B00131QZS6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1215336582&sr=1-1
Sony VAIO NR21 Notebook, Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2330, 1.60GHz, 15.4" TFT, 2048MB Memory, 200GB Hard-drive, DVD±RW, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, Vista Home Premium

Can someone help?? I'm really tempted by the sony only 'coz the HP is now OOS and I want to order soon!

Thanks!!!

pepsi_max2k

http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=HPYA05SUI
HP 6715b, AMD TL-62 2.1 GHz, 15.4" TFT, 2048MB Memory, 250GB Hard-drive, DVD±RW Lightscribe, Radeon X1250, Vista Home Premium

~£450 shipped but £30 cashback from HP and may be other codes / quidco available.

georgemac_2

I also just missed out on the John Lewis HP laptop deal, which was a cracker, especially with the 2 year gaurantee - the model has now been removed from the website.

http://www.johnlewis.com/230479200/Product.aspx this is the exact same laptop except this one has 3 gbytes or ram instead of 2 gytes - I am now hoping they reduce this one too!

robtruscott

just found this on Ebuyer

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/138095

280 smackers the only problem is it dont have 2Gb memory but i'm sure you can pick up another 1GB of memory cheap.

batthink

Why not a Asus Eee? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=959&catid=1070

Or an MSI wind:
http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=168086&partner=froogle

Or a Dell or Lenovo, not sure what the cheapest deal is but the build quality and reliability are worth the extra in the long run.

batthink

You said you want a laptop for HD movies, but the laptops you list do not have screens capable of full HD. Full HD is 1080 pixels (vertically). Just thought I'd mention it.

Fortyfoot

HP 530 Laptop Intel Celeron M 520 1x 1GB 120GB brightview 15.4" widescreen DVD±RW WLAN Vista Home Basic (Office 07 Ready *Trial) *FREE 1GB MEMORY*


I bought one of these a few months ago, it's great. Extra memory was easy to put in.

Fortyfoot