The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

JDPower

tankgirl1 wrote: »

hiya

i have about £500 to spend on a lappy - have been looking around, and this looks like the best one to me - just wondered what you guys thought??
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0602171431.1196454761@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccegaddmjgemhjlcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=307074&category_oid=

Its reasonable but not particularly special price wise.

ubergeek

bigvince76 wrote: »

Ok the old chestnut... I have £300 to spend on a laptop, what is the best deal at the moment? This one on amazon looks good to me but am I missing something? Just need it for word processing, watching DVDs and web browsing.

Also is it worth getting the acer advantage extended cover, seem pretty cheap at £49 with a carry case and mouse, but what do I know!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-5315-Hard-drive-Accelerator/dp/B000VPJDPM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1195884210&sr=8-1

This laptop is currently avail at comet for the same price and in-store collect (i.e. pay cash or highstreet vouchers, etc).

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=425397

MMCG_2

HP media centre G6032EA available at mo for £449 and free delivery. Use ONLINE as a discount code and the price is £404.10. Sainsbury's and Viking Direct have a medion one at £399. More or less same spec as HP but different processor I think. Hope this helps.

codger

d123 wrote: »

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Not that much use for watching DVD's though, there is no CD or DVD drive, and even with an external drive the resolution is only 800x480.

Exactly.

My son works in a national High Street retailer that includes lappies in its stock. This particular retailer has a well-founded reputation for playing fair with customers and taking back stuff which turns out not to be what the buyer was actually expecting.

In recent months there've been a number of returns of lappies in the Fujitsu brand. Nothing wrong with the lappies, and nothing wrong with the price they were sold at: around £300.

What was wrong was all the purchasers who breezed in thinking a BMW can be bought for the price of a Kia.

There's always going to a problem with fixing a price point first rather than fixing one's requirements first (and understanding just how those requirements are going to be met.)

number9

MMCG wrote: »

HP media centre G6032EA available at mo for £449 and free delivery. Use ONLINE as a discount code and the price is £404.10. Sainsbury's and Viking Direct have a medion one at £399. More or less same spec as HP but different processor I think. Hope this helps.

MMCG

where is the hp media centre laptop on offer for the price quoted?

cheers

erb

I have seen an HP laptop on tcd direct who are in London but don't know anything about them.

Does anyone know if they are anygood? This is the link to their site.

steveing64

hi guys looking for laptop got about £800 tospendwil be forday to day need to get rid of destop now as no room so being looking at dell any idea

codger

erb wrote: »

I have seen an HP laptop on tcd direct who are in London but don't know anything about them.

Does anyone know if they are anygood? This is the link to their site.

Can't help with that, unfortunately.

However: we've had two PCs from Hewlett Packard itself at eBay prices (including a new media centre, back in 2005, at exactly half the price being asked at that time by Comet and Currys / Dixons.)

Both PCs have worked fine and if they were, as HP said, "refurbished", there was no way of telling. Everything was brand new, including carton and inner packaging. And the manufacturer warranty was 12 months.

We keep an eye on HP's stock by visiting this link: they tend to "batch" this type of sale so you may find that some weeks, there's nothing available:

http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=hp_marketplace_uk

Hope this helps.

map200uk

steveing64

have a look at the vastro 1000

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/4x_vostro_1000?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd

2gig ram/120gig hdd/6 cell inc vat and p+p (p and p usually 60) will set you back 374-not too bad imo

have a look anyway and go through quidco:)

JDPower

map200uk wrote: »

steveing64

have a look at the vastro 1000

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/4x_vostro_1000?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd

2gig ram/120gig hdd/6 cell inc vat and p+p (p and p usually 60) will set you back 374-not too bad imo

I've got one of those, you can save a bit more if you get the lowest RAM available and upgrade it yourself. They've bought their RAM prices down now but when I bought mine they were charging about £100 extra for 2GB RAM, I got it from Crucial for £34.