The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

Lostintheplot

On https://www.medionshop.co.uk I have spotted a refurbished laptop with 3GHz processor, 512MB RAM and 40GB hard drive for £299.99.

Would it be worth getting this? I'd probably spend another £50 or so on upgrading the RAM.

traderonline

you missed Dell

i am currently using a toshiba satellite laptop and it's pretty durable too. check ebay for a great bargain

romany

Are there any laptop bargains around at the moment. Need one when we go off motorhoming around Europe in June. Nothing too fancy just basic requirements but am bewildered by it all. Up to £500.
thanx

swizzle_2

Toshiba A100-027 or a Gateway MT6825b ?

Both have a firewire which i will need for my mini dv camcorder.

Plus both £500

anley1

I agree with the previous poster HP laptops are very good.

I bought mine from J Lewis about a year ago because they had an offer that chucked in 2 years warranty rather than just the 1.

And with J Lewis's no crap returns and price match I'd still buy from them than say PC world.

Hunniah_2

This laptop is just too good to be true and it's for only £349..

Laptop Workshop CHEAP laptop with three years warranty free

Only question I have is that, have you guys heard of this site do you know if it's genuine?? I think I found about The laptop workshop (SolarisTech) site from here, someone on this thread posted about it but at that time I was just researching and wasn't reading what people had commented about the site and was just looking at the links people provided here.. Which is why I have no idea which page number it was on and I can't go through all 63 pages all over again so any help from you guys would be highly appreciated..

I'm a student and I can not spend more than £350 on a laptop and this site has buy now pay later feature which sounds really good but I have no idea how it actually works, it says there would be no extra charge if I pay right after after 6 months..

There is another site that offers a refurbished laptop for about £350 and has about the same specs as the first laptop..

IBM ThinkPad T40 from My new cheap

BUT I'm more lenient towards the first one since it's brand new NOT refurbished.. So what do you guys think??? Which one is better???

qwertyford

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4DJS&InMerch=1

this is arguably one of the best deals around in my oppinion.

Think I'm going to get my sister this since it will do everything she needs it to do and is a decent make. I've seen the deals for refurbished laptops etc, but I'd rather have a brand new laptop, with Windows Vista from a big company like Dabs, and not some small business.

Sky_Digiman

Cheap Toshiba at ebuyer with free 512mb extra membery and laptop bag
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/125319/rb/26608433037

dougierobino

Hi,

Am looking for a cheap laptop for my mum. She fell in love with macs of old (late 80s early 90s) and can't stand the fact that Mac have "window-fied" themselves (her words, not mine) and has begrudgingly decided that after years hankering after the past and not having a PC of any sort she might get a cheap laptop and try to get to grips with windows.

All she will need it for would be internet access and a bit of word/ publisher. It would also be great for her to be able to store photos of her newly acquired granddaughter cos I get into bother for emailing the rest of the family and she doesn't see them...................

Any suggestions?
Thanks in anticipation
DR

qwertyford

dougierobino wrote: »

Hi,

Am looking for a cheap laptop for my mum. She fell in love with macs of old (late 80s early 90s) and can't stand the fact that Mac have "window-fied" themselves (her words, not mine) and has begrudgingly decided that after years hankering after the past and not having a PC of any sort she might get a cheap laptop and try to get to grips with windows.

All she will need it for would be internet access and a bit of word/ publisher. It would also be great for her to be able to store photos of her newly acquired granddaughter cos I get into bother for emailing the rest of the family and she doesn't see them...................

Any suggestions?
Thanks in anticipation
DR

the Toshiba laptops mentioned above are a pretty good bet for an upto date and cheap laptop.