The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

sc03tye

:beer:

I know, thank god the weekend - any excuse ey! Well, just so you know - I've spotted the laptop on ebay (new but box damaged - and seller has good v good feedback for damanged box goods). Its there for £592.95inc del! so cheaper still!! if you wanna look, I'll best not paste the link - I know spamming rule type things..eek!

Just look up HP 'NX6125 WiFi Laptop with 1 Yr Wrty BNIB (EK157ET)' on an ebay site of your choice

Only thing keeping me from buying it is, i guess, the thought of missing out on another machine being more of a bargain! haha - oh and theres the memory (which is good but...to upgrade to a gig, you'd have to replace both sticks in there as only 2 slots), and the fact the processor cache is so small at 512kb :undecided

sc03tye

Hola! :j

Just to busy up this board again...

The one of the laptops I've mentioned before has JUST been discounted to £699 at comet online. Acer 5622.

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/572_314315.html

Now, with Quidco, you can get this beast for £675! For a dual core, 1gb ram, 80h/d, and basic gfx (to handle the older games) this has to be a right find? Elsewhere you'd be looking to pay at least £775 - check it out.

Just though i'd spread the word....to you guys.

Adam

Biggs_3

I got this wee number http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/Computing/Laptops/ADVENT/7082/935200[/url]
Only £499
If you buy it without free Laptop Bag, Mouse & Data Storage stick!
It only cost £299.
Expensive Laptop Bag, Mouse & Data Storage stick I thought.
I got it for uni work and it does everything I require.

Happy_saver_4

Biggs wrote:

I got this wee number http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/Computing/Laptops/ADVENT/7082/935200[/url]
Only £499
If you buy it without free Laptop Bag, Mouse & Data Storage stick!
It only cost £299.
Expensive Laptop Bag, Mouse & Data Storage stick I thought.
I got it for uni work and it does everything I require.

Hi Biggs,

Looked like a bargain but Curry's sold out.

Their message reads:-
" SORRY
Due to high demand the following item(s) are currently unavailable.
ADVENT 7082 AMD SEMPRON 2800+ PROCESSOR LAPTOP"

Is their any other CHEAP laptops out there?

griff.

Good to see the topic back on track !

Anything better than this ?

from Dell - the price is Incl. VAT , but NOT Delivery £430.87 (another approx. £50 for delivery)


Inspiron 1300 Celeron® M Processor 380 (1.60 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB), XP Home Edition, SP2
Memory 512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x256)
Hard Drive 40GB (5.400rpm) Hard Drive
CD/DVD Drives 8X DVD+/-RW with Software
Dell™ Wireless 1370 802.11b/g Mini PCI Card
Basic: 3-Year At Home service, Multimedia E-Learning & FREE Dicota Backpack Style (black)
Primary Battery 6 Cell 56Whr Primary Battery
LCD 15.4inch WXGA (1280x800) LCD Panel

DebH

My sister has just asked me to check out Acer for £399 at Tescos. Seems it's only in store not online. We live 200 miles apart so I can't go and check it out - all she can remember is that HD was 40gb! Has anyone seen these or adverts for them? They just want a basic laptop to replace their tower.

Thanks

Deb

cheekymole

These are the specs. Can anybody give me an opinion please?

kevingattaca

MMmmmm how about ;

( £299.99 Dell Notebook )

http://www.shop.bt.com/invt/cal186


K

Browntoa

the current Dell Inspiron 1300 is still a better offer, faster processor, double the Memory and a bigger hard disk + wireless card all for £349

the BT one is a bit vague but I think it's the older Inspiron 1100

griff.

Have at look at this one on the bt site...

http://www.shop.bt.com/invt/cal179

...a better spec than anything at the same price on the dell site ? and a good graphics memory card ?

# Intel Pentium M725a 1.6Ghz
# 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 400Mhz
# 80GB IDE
# Internal ATI Radeon X300 Hypermemory with 64MB dedicated memory
# DVD Writer R/RW DL 8x max
# Touch pad
# Built in Dell 56K Data/fax modem
# MS Windows XP Home
# MS Worksuite 2005
# SD Card Reader
# 4x USB 2.0
# 10/100BT Wired network 802.11b/g Wireless Network
# 16-bit stereo
# 15.4 Inch WXGA Widescreen

all for £499.99 plus delivery