The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

Monkeeboy

Well folks I have eventually done a deal with Dell. I have bought two Inspiron 6400 for £800. Heres the deal.

Inspiron N07642

Intel Pentium Dual Core T2080 1.73ghz
15.4 widescreen with truelife upgrade
120gb hard drive
8x DVD rewriter
6 cell battery (approx 2.5 hours)
wireless enabled
1024 mb 533Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
3 year next day onsite warranty
Windows XP Professional

the price for both should have been £1,078.80 a saving of £278.80 or 25.84%. Whilst I went slightly overbudget by £50 I got the 1 year return to base warranty for each upgraded to 3 years on site for only £25 per machine.

The other thing to mention is that the original delivery was quoted as end of November but this was brought forward to end of October and no money to be taken from my card until delivery date.:j

MMCG_2

savenotspendsid wrote: »

I've been looking for ages for a laptop between 400 and 500 ish, was looking at a Sony vaio n38.

But have recently been tempted by a Toshiba a200-15i.

It has 2gb ram and 160gb mem, get it online at dixons for £499.
use a discount code to get price down even further.

My advice is to stay away from Toshiba, especially if bought thru Dixons. I spent £650 2 years ago on a Tosh and knew from day 1 that it wasn't going properly. I eventually managed to persuade dixons to collect it and 'repair' it only to be told that there was nothing wrong with it. Last week it eventually decided to stop working. Motherboard problems etc which I can't afford to fix. I phoned Toshiba to find out Dixons had never consulted them about the problem and that they will do nothing as it is outside the 1 year warranty. I could go on...

If you are still tempted go onto the Toshiba website and into their forums. Look up the model you are thinking of buying then you will see how many people are having problems with it and the kind they are having.

Good Luck.

Treedenter

savenotspendsid - sounds like a good deal. Any idea how to get hold of a discount code for dixons? Cheers, Rob.

savenotspendsid

Treedenter wrote: »

savenotspendsid - sounds like a good deal. Any idea how to get hold of a discount code for dixons? Cheers, Rob.

just search through google for "discount codes" or check the forum on this site>:T

bandraoi

Just ordered a Toshiba P200-10O from Empire Direct
This is the outline spec

- Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2080
- Genuine Windows® Vista® Home Premium Edition
- DVD Super Multi drive (Double Layer)
- 2,048 (1,024 + 1,024) MB
- 17.1 " Toshiba TruBrite® WXGA+ TFT display
- capacity : 120 GB

and a built in camera and microphone is very very nice indeed, even if the 17 inch screen makes it a bit of non-portable monster . . .

Ordered it from Empire Direct at £549.99
7% off with code - EV2751, username edsave - -£39.99
3% cashback though topcashback.co.uk - -£15.30

Total Price = £494.70
That'll sit on my credit card at 0% till March with the money in a nice high interest bank account.

The final price will work out somewhere in the £480 region.
Other online shops have it on sale for upwards of £700.

SPL

Hi everyone,

I was tempted by this Sony Vaio form Ebuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/124797) a couple of weeks ago and the poll on this thread has given me the final push I needed.

Does anyone have any criticisms of this laptop/deal (apart from being out of stock at the moment!)? The reviews on the site seem pretty good.

Any comments appreciated.

bandraoi

I think you can get that spec at a better price if you go non-Sony, but Sony laptops are beautiful so I can understand wanting to go with that.

There are better prices than that out there I suspect, Technoworld have it in stock at £495, and a bit of rooting may get you a quidco and voucher discount.

I'm_With_Stupid

SPL wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I was tempted by this Sony Vaio form Ebuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/124797) a couple of weeks ago and the poll on this thread has given me the final push I needed.

Does anyone have any criticisms of this laptop/deal (apart from being out of stock at the moment!)? The reviews on the site seem pretty good.

Any comments appreciated.

This one from the same website is cheaper, more up to date, better processor, with a bigger hard drive.

This one is the same price but with twice the RAM, a bigger screen, a better processor, and a bigger hard drive.

Both quality brands too. I've never heard anyone complain about Fujitsu in particular.

And with all due respect to the poll on this thread, the majority of people voting on it haven't tried out lots of different laptop brands, so I wouldn't let that sway you. Buy the individual laptop, not the brand.

SPL

I'm_With_Stupid wrote: »

This one from the same website is cheaper, more up to date, better processor, with a bigger hard drive.

This one is the same price but with twice the RAM, a bigger screen, a better processor, and a bigger hard drive.

Both quality brands too. I've never heard anyone complain about Fujitsu in particular.

And with all due respect to the poll on this thread, the majority of people voting on it haven't tried out lots of different laptop brands, so I wouldn't let that sway you. Buy the individual laptop, not the brand.

Great stuff - thanks a million.

kats53

HI folks
I am thinking about purchasing a laptop and have been looking around for a while for a decent one but also for a good price.
I would value the opinion of those amongst you who are more expert in this field than I am.
I have found this one on the DABS website

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4LJ3&CategorySelectedId=11012&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11012&InMerch=1

Would you please tell me what you think.
Thanks in advance.