The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

Aiadi

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/37829/new-vostro-dell-laptop-range-sempro

alexchegwin

Aiadi wrote: »

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/37829/new-vostro-dell-laptop-range-sempro

If i was going to buy a new laptop I would get this... taking the upgraded cpu (X2) and the 9 cell battery....(£350 delivered)

But I am really after a cheap second hand laptop (£200 max)

With most products you have to pay through the nose for brand new spec's and the prices decreas once second hand dramatically. But with laptops it is very different ? Looking at ebay second hand laptops go for huge amounts! compared witht the spec u can get from dell brand new??

Does this confuse anyone else or is it just me ??

:rotfl:

ubergeek

alexchegwin wrote: »

If i was going to buy a new laptop I would get this... taking the upgraded cpu (X2) and the 9 cell battery....(£350 delivered)

But I am really after a cheap second hand laptop (£200 max)

With most products you have to pay through the nose for brand new spec's and the prices decreas once second hand dramatically. But with laptops it is very different ? Looking at ebay second hand laptops go for huge amounts! compared witht the spec u can get from dell brand new??

Does this confuse anyone else or is it just me ??

:rotfl:

The second hand market hasn't caught up with the drop in new prices yet.

TonyB

A friend needs an inexpensive laptop, mainly for internet/email use Big memory etc not really essential but obviously processor speed(?) is important.
We've seen a local ad for laptops from £199 & are going to look tomorrow, Any warnings or sugestions please?????

TonyB

Ramz_3

Well, a decent laptop you can get for £600 is the Samsung R20 @ John Lewis.

CD / DVD optical driveDVD Super-Multi Dual Layer DimensionsH25.5/38.5 x W340 x D259.5mm FireWire / IEEE 1394 ports1 Graphics cardATI Radeon X1250 Graphics card - video RAMInformation not available Hard drive120GB Memory card slot4-in-1 Model name / numberR20 Modem56k Operating systemWindows Vista Home Premium ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo T5300 Processor speed1.73GHz RAM2GB Screen resolution1280 x 800 Screen size14.1"





http://www.johnlewis.com/Computing/Computers/Computers/Laptops/398/230426828/Product.aspx?SearchTerm=samsung+r20

James_M_3

Go to Alienware.com. Amazing Laptops! And great desktops to!

Deedee73

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=515379

See the thread I posted in grabbit.

Tozer

What about this?
Dell Vospro 1500
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5470 Processor (1.6GHz,800MHz,2MB L2 cache)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Business - English
3 Year Business Hardware Support - Next Business Day
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
Matte Jet Black without Camera
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
128 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Primary 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (56 WHr)

£530 delivered. Any good?

random456

re dell, how are you all getting so much money off? sinple haggling or are you comparing them to other models over the phone as we havent really found anything cheaper than dell but some people on here have managed to get 700 quid machines for 400! how are you doing it! we want to phone them :P

our spec is 2 gb ram
dedicated nvidea 8000 series support directx10
dual core 1.8
decent hard drive

anyone? whats the cheapest for this?

1961templar

TonyB wrote: »

A friend needs an inexpensive laptop, mainly for internet/email use Big memory etc not really essential but obviously processor speed(?) is important.
We've seen a local ad for laptops from £199 & are going to look tomorrow, Any warnings or sugestions please?????

TonyB

For internet/email use this is ideal:

Gateway ML3108b 14.1" Laptop - £299.00
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-5655.aspx

They also have more expensive Gateway models with faster processors & greater memory.