The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

deedub777

deedub777 wrote:

Have a look at
Order any accessory or software (and get free delivery). If you haggle or quote them a cheaper price elsewhere, they will match it!!

Got them down to £388 (matched www.technoworld.co.uk price)

dihunny

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-4597.aspx

dihunny

swizzle_2

What about this top seller at laptops direct Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi at £399.97 in vat?

You can send off for a disk free upgrade to VISTA or is it better to stick with the windows xp media edtition that is already on it?
Or wait a bit and buy 1 with Vista already on?

What it for normal home stuff.

Thanks

deedub777

swizzle wrote:

What about this top seller at laptops direct Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi at £399.97 in vat?

You can send off for a disk free upgrade to VISTA or is it better to stick with the windows xp media edtition that is already on it?
Or wait a bit and buy 1 with Vista already on?

What it for normal home stuff.

Thanks

I was going to send off for the Vista upgrade but was warned away from it. With only 512Mb RAM, it would struggle with the resource hungry Vista. You would need to upgrade the memory. I'll be sticking with XP

littleange

deedub777 wrote:

I was going to send off for the Vista upgrade but was warned away from it. With only 512Mb RAM, it would struggle with the resource hungry Vista. You would need to upgrade the memory. I'll be sticking with XP

Is it not worth getting the upgrade disk anyway, incase you decide to upgrade the laptop at a later date?

southantrim3

I know this is very hard to believe but this is what I got in their Bangor (Northern Ireland) store on Saturday afternoon. It was an ex-demo so had a few scuff marks. It also had a 1 year warranty.

I got and Advent 1500MHz intel celeron processor
60 GB Hard Drive
512Mb Ram
4 USB ports
Built in mic, speakers, modem.
DVD +/- RW drive
Preloaded Windows XP home and MS Works

All for £213.97!! (inclusive.)

southantrim3

BTW this was a laptop!!

deedub777

deedub777 wrote:

Got them down to £388 (matched https://www.technoworld.co.uk price)

Taken delivery of this laptop now ad I must say I am very impressed! I heard Acer were good:T
The display is very similar to the Sony Vaio (glossy and bright) if you like that sort of thing, dead easy to setup and got it hooked into the wireless for internet, printing and file sharing easy peasy.
The DVD writer is a Pioneer and they are very good too (also reads DVD RAM disks).
Laptopdirect were very efficient too!

kirill

hey, guys anything between £350-400 had a look at a few models most of the good deals are out of stock so quickly, any offers would be really appreciated.

shazam

Hi,
there are so many laptops to choose from and so im not to sure which one to get. the ones below seem cheap, but are they any good?
I just need the laptop for work, any other suggestions

thanks

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Fujitsu_Siemens_Amilo_Pro_V3515_VFY:EM71V3515AB2GB/version-1.asp

http://direct.tesco.com/product/default.aspx?R=200-4597