The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

da_murphster

Also on the hunt - looking for decent processor (Duo or equiv), 15.4, 40Gb+, 512ram+, would be happy with XP. Under £450 is poss!

Most of the cheap deals seem to be on older processors although intially laptops direct seem to have some cheap deals - can anyone point out a decent one - bit overwhelmed!!

wakandem

Just don't buy 2nd hand/refurbished. It will be overpriced, worn out & old. You are better off with an older spec new one.

CrustyMcMuffin

Hunniah, maybe a bit late for you, that laptop looks alright but it's got a small screen which might be an issue for you.

Gib_Gib

LINKY

- 15.4" TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
- Processor Intel Celeron M 360 / 1.4 GHz
- Hard Drive 60 GB - 5400 rpm
- RAM 512 MB (installed) / 1 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM ( 1 x 512 MB )
- Built-in Speakers, wireless LAN aerial
- DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Weight 2.7 kg

£352.49

ioscorpio

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-2161.aspx

Acer Aspire 17" laptop with Vista E7004 £379.97

Is this worth getting?

da_murphster

Sempron 3400 is a pretty basic processor and is not bery "future proof"

I'm hoping to find something comparable to the dell offer I missed - ie something dual core for under £400.

Struggling though.....

wakandem

ioscorpio wrote: »

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-2161.aspx

Acer Aspire 17" laptop with Vista E7004 £379.97

Is this worth getting?

It is very competitive & acer have a good name. I've seen them in store. The good thing about getting it from tesco or similar outlet is that if you are not happy with it for whatever reason you can take it back in to the store and get it sorted immediately. I'd still go for a dell though

scratchdisk

I bought a Gateway notebook from best buy. it was only 599 and it has a intel duel core, 1 gig ram ati radeon xpress 200m and windows vista. the screen is the smaller 15 inch, but im cool with that. I am really happy with it.

gotan

wakandem wrote: »

It is very competitive & acer have a good name. I've seen them in store. The good thing about getting it from tesco or similar outlet is that if you are not happy with it for whatever reason you can take it back in to the store and get it sorted immediately. I'd still go for a dell though

I've been negotiating a price with Dell for 2 weeks. Be warned: the Easter bunny has added on at least £50 (same spec as late March) to their advertised 'offers'. Hope they will go down again next week.
They claim though that their warranty extensions are on special until tomorrow.
I paid £79 for another year NBD onsite on my old laptop which beats any repair quote I've had. Doesn't mean that it won't be £59 next week with Dell though.

MTW_2

I have been advised by the techies at work that this is a good buy, although I quite like the Toshiba mentioned a couple of posts above. The machine will be for my lad going to Uni in September (B'day next week)

Hewlett Packard RU964AA - at e buyer £346.91 inc VAT

Spec Rundown:
Intel Centrino PM 770 Processor
512MB System Memory
60GB Hard Disk Drive
DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
15.4" WXGA Brightview Display
Integrated Wifi Wireless Lan
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition


All coments welcome.