The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

darrelljon

Apologies if these have been mentioned before, but the best cheap laptops are the Medison Celebrity for £75 and the ASUS EeePC for ~£150.

buglawton

Neither have ever appeared on retail on the UK with a QUERTY keyboard. The Medison (or anyone offering to sell you one) is strongly being flagged up as a scam per 2 minute's Googling. Even then the spec is a sub-notebook of the type that could be good for travelling rather than say office usage.

If it looks to good to be true...

[ A bit of further Googling and it looks like you should not even enter your Card number into Medison's 2Checkout website - see http://www.webhostingforum.com/showthread.php?t=388 ]

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midders_2

What do you think my chances are... I am looking for the following spec for under £500.

17" Widescreen
2048MB RAM
160GB Hard Disk
Decent enough processor and preferably a graphics card which is not on board....

I think the only way I can get something close to this is try and haggle with dell... what do you think?

Thanks

Aiadi

midders wrote: »

What do you think my chances are...

Quite good I have to say. From a very quick search that I did:
http://www.currys.co.uk/product.php?sku=970401

It is currently out of stock but these prices are not impossible to find. If you search well on the net then I am sure you'll be able to find plenty more.

Janeryan

Hi all

We are looking for a laptop for DS for 6th form and are fairly technophobic when it comes to the spec on these things.

Needs to be light but robust as he will have it with him at school all day(also not too expensive as to be a target for potential theft!)

He would like to be able to load 1 or 2 games onto it as well as using it for schoolwork.Also could do with having Microsoft office on it to be compatible with our desktop Pc.


Our current computer is Windows XP so if he gets Vista will it be compatible if neccesary?

All suggestions gratefully received

Browntoa

Vista + XP work fine together

keep an eye on the "Grabbit" section on the forum, look out on a Thursday for the latest deals

there have been some outstanding deals on Dell vostro Laptops for as little as £292

Stubert

midders wrote: »

What do you think my chances are... I am looking for the following spec for under £500.

17" Widescreen
2048MB RAM
160GB Hard Disk
Decent enough processor and preferably a graphics card which is not on board....

I think the only way I can get something close to this is try and haggle with dell... what do you think?

Thanks

That would be pretty expensive. To get something with a decent graphics card I don't really see happening. You could get the Inspiron 1720 from Dell, but I'm sure with that spec it would come to about £900 minimum.

littleange

Stubert wrote: »

That would be pretty expensive. To get something with a decent graphics card I don't really see happening. You could get the Inspiron 1720 from Dell, but I'm sure with that spec it would come to about £900 minimum.

Starting from:

£860 for the 1720 (-£35 quidco = £825)
£760 for the 1721 (-£30 quidco = £730)

I think

siliconbits

Stubert wrote: »

That would be pretty expensive. To get something with a decent graphics card I don't really see happening. You could get the Inspiron 1720 from Dell, but I'm sure with that spec it would come to about £900 minimum.

If you can live with a refurbished laptop, then go for this Advent model from Currys (http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/401567). £399 gets you a dual core laptop with a 17-inch screen, 1GB memory and a 120GB HDD. You can always upgrade the memory and buy an external hard disk drive. Also use Quidco and various codes available on the net to get the price even cheaper. Best of all, enjoy a few more pounds discount if you have an egg card....

oldie21

I have just bought one of these & no-one has mentioned it is refurbished.......how could I tell?


so far it seems a good deal but let me know what to look out for