The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

rainbowangel

Thanks Monkeeboy but I have no idea of how I would haggel with Dell do you phone them up? Thanks again Georgina

Monkeeboy

Just check out their website - look at both home and small business prices, but remember the business prices need VAT and delivery adding (business also has other order differences to home users such as no distance selling cancellation rights- apparently), identify exactly what you want then set your self a limit.

Give the operators a call tell them exactly what you have seen but say the price is above your budget can they move on the price/is there any flexibility on this price - perhaps mention a figure slightly below your budget then allow them to raise your budget to your real limit. They are always keen to get a sale. Do not buckle straight away. When I called I said the above and was offered different machines and spec, but no discount. i said that this was the machine I wanted so politely refused the other machines offered. The guy took my phone number then called back a few hours later to say they would do the price I asked for.

Just remember its always worth asking! And always remain polite and friendly

Best of luck - let me know how you get on.

Fatal_Swan

rainbowangel wrote: »

Hi sadly I can't afford a £500 lap top as all of these are.... does anyone know of any good ones around the £300 to £350 mark? All my pref are is.. 1gb memory wireless internet and possibly core 2 processor. Many thanks in advance )

I posted this on Grabbit but it's had little response. Now that the Play.com RAM is going for £18 a GB, this is great for the money I think.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=570131

£330 for a Toshiba Satellite Pro T2130 Dual Core (1.86ghz), 512Mb, 15.4", 60Gb HD, DVDRW. Till yesterday there was a code for 5% off too, but it's not valid anymore. Add the extra RAM and that's your all requirements for sub-£350. I haven't seen any other machines with a processor of this spec in the price bracket.

(Much shorter lead times than the dells too... delivered within a couple of days )

Edit: zoopakev has just posted a better offer than the current one on the above thread. Same laptop but with free upgrade to 1gig RAM now on laptops direct, £330 after cashback, plus 2% quidco!

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_L40-12T_PSL43E-00L00NEN/version.asp

I think you'll be hard pushed to find a Core 2 duo in this price range but the dual core T2130 is a lot better than the celerons and cheaper AMDs on most of the others/.

matty2767

rainbowangel wrote: »

Hi sadly I can't afford a £500 lap top as all of these are.... does anyone know of any good ones around the £300 to £350 mark? All my pref are is.. 1gb memory wireless internet and possibly core 2 processor. Many thanks in advance )

this is £50 over budget but you might find it cheaper elsewhere. it is the core 2 processor that is causing you the problem with your budget, why not drop to an amd or core?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132347

leesharp

Hi
just purchased a refurbished Dell laptop for £439.99 from a company called SVP.Came with a 160gb hd,2gb Ram,etc,etc,also a 3 year warranty too
We ordered it @14.30 and it came @08.30 the next day.They are also doing great deals on desk tops too,worth a look i think,hope this helps?
Here is the link for it

http://svp.co.uk/products-list.php?bid=0&cid=241


Lee

beefster

Fatal_Swan wrote: »

I posted this on Grabbit but it's had little response. Now that the Play.com RAM is going for £18 a GB, this is great for the money I think.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=570131

£330 for a Toshiba Satellite Pro T2130 Dual Core (1.86ghz), 512Mb, 15.4", 60Gb HD, DVDRW. Till yesterday there was a code for 5% off too, but it's not valid anymore. Add the extra RAM and that's your all requirements for sub-£350. I haven't seen any other machines with a processor of this spec in the price bracket.

(Much shorter lead times than the dells too... delivered within a couple of days )

Edit: zoopakev has just posted a better offer than the current one on the above thread. Same laptop but with free upgrade to 1gig RAM now on laptops direct, £330 after cashback, plus 2% quidco!

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_L40-12T_PSL43E-00L00NEN/version.asp

I think you'll be hard pushed to find a Core 2 duo in this price range but the dual core T2130 is a lot better than the celerons and cheaper AMDs on most of the others/.

The toshiba at laptops direct is plus Vat / tax making it £380 ish.

The acer form Ebuyer with the bigger 80gb hard drive and the intel core2 then looks better value to me at £399, but i'm no expert!

Fatal_Swan

beefster wrote: »

The toshiba at laptops direct is plus Vat / tax making it £380 ish.

£330 for the Toshiba is the price once the £50 cashback from the manufacturer is taken into account, so it is pretty a significant price difference between that and the £400 ebuyer one...

spike87

I've just ordered the Toshiba one from Laptops Direct with the 2% cashback from quidco. Excellent find!

Thanks so much!

kats53

I've also just ordered a Toshiba from laptopsdirect and through quidco. Thanks!
I've been looking for ages trying to decide which one to buy, this looks ideal and I can't wait for it to come.

shazam

saw this offer on the tv for the fujitsu laptop with comet. Is this a good laptop as the memory and hard drive seem to be good, for the price?

Processor speed: 1.73 GHz
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core
Screen size: 15 inches
Storage (hard drive): 80 GB
Memory (RAM): 2048 MB

£399.00

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=407135

any advice would be great