The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

map200uk

blimey that was a lot you paid for ram, so you also have an amd turion laptop? my current laptop is an amd turion cpu-which i never understand why people say things about amd being not as good as intel..its just that people are simply used to intel and believe all the hype

JDPower

map200uk wrote: »

blimey that was a lot you paid for ram, so you also have an amd turion laptop? my current laptop is an amd turion cpu-which i never understand why people say things about amd being not as good as intel..its just that people are simply used to intel and believe all the hype

You think £34 is alot for 2GB of RAM??? Intel certainly aren't better than AMD, they just each have their own strengths. Personally I have always preferred AMD (my last laptop had a Pentium 4 and it was forever overheating).

misscomickat

Hello people
I'm after a laptop to take to Poland with me. I know NOTHING about laptops. I want one that is reasonably light, and I can get on the internet with, and do all basic things. Not really interested in playing complicated games, I have a PS2 for that.

I'm planning on buying one in January in the hope of getting a better deal.

Do they usually come with Office on them? Or do you have to pay extra?

Thanks for any advice.

pin

misscomickat wrote: »

Hello people
I'm after a laptop to take to Poland with me. I know NOTHING about laptops. I want one that is reasonably light, and I can get on the internet with, and do all basic things. Not really interested in playing complicated games, I have a PS2 for that.

I'm planning on buying one in January in the hope of getting a better deal.

Do they usually come with Office on them? Or do you have to pay extra?

Thanks for any advice.

asus eee pc, about £220.

misscomickat

Thanks I just googled that, it looks really tiny. I would rather have a proper sized laptop as I will be spending quite a bit of time on it and I don't have very good eye sight.

newtothis32

Hi, just wandering if their are any good deals out there on laptops?

I don't want anything spectacular, it is a present for my children for xmas and they just want to be able to access the internet, go on MSN and do school work on it.

Keep trolling through PC world, currys etc but don't really know enough about how much memory I need, processor, hard drive, etc.... It's like a foreign language to me.

So, if there's any laptop that can be recommended or specification guidelines that anyone can give me I'd be really grateful

Thanks in advance :T

I'm_With_Stupid

newtothis32 wrote: »

Hi, just wandering if their are any good deals out there on laptops?

I don't want anything spectacular, it is a present for my children for xmas and they just want to be able to access the internet, go on MSN and do school work on it.

Keep trolling through PC world, currys etc but don't really know enough about how much memory I need, processor, hard drive, etc.... It's like a foreign language to me.

So, if there's any laptop that can be recommended or specification guidelines that anyone can give me I'd be really grateful

Thanks in advance :T

I know you say you don't want to do much on it, but equally, with a laptop, you want something that will last, because they're difficult to upgrade. With that in mind, this is the minimum specification I would accept personally:

Dual Core Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (T5000 series)/Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa (T7000 series)/Core Duo (T2000 series) or an AMD Turion 64X2
1GB RAM (2GB if you can afford it)
120GB hard drive (but obviously the more the better)
DVD-Writer
Everything else really depends on what you want to do with it, but from what you've said, you wont need anything that doesn't come as standard on a laptop nowadays.

Having said all that, I have to recommend this laptop, because it is one of the best deals I've seen for ages. It has the best laptop processor going, 2GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive all for £500. It basically has none of the fancy crap you get on some computers, just a brilliant basic specification.

misscomickat

£500? Is that really the amount you need to spend to get a decent laptop? I've seen ones on sale from £300, are they any good?

bookie_2

Hi,

I'm looking to buy a laptop, which I can use on the train whilst commuting. Since I don't know much about computers/laptops, I would appreciate some help. All I know is it's got to be light, and the screen size under 14 ".

Thanks :-)

P.S. Sorry if this question has been answered before. A link to the answer would be much appreciated.

JDPower

misscomickat wrote: »

£500? Is that really the amount you need to spend to get a decent laptop? I've seen ones on sale from £300, are they any good?

No you don't need to spend that much at all, there are some good deals around at the £300-400 mark at the mo. For that price look for:

Dual core processor (AMD or intel, doesn't matter though AMD laptops are usually a little cheaper and more reliable in my opinion)

1GB of RAM (though if getting a Vista laptop try to get one with 2GB, will run smoother)

Hard drive around 100Gb (or more if you download lots of movies)

15' screen or more (you said you didn't want anything small)

CD/DVD Drive

All easily found for that price range