The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

JDPower

dibdab3 wrote: »

Sorry,but my daughter has just phoned in a panic as her computer has just crashed and she is in the process of doing her Law Finals,so needs a replacement.

This Dell one sounds great.Dont understand about upgrading the graphics card,but dont think that matters.

The upgrade options are on the Dell site. If you've never used their site they give a basic spec which you can buy as is, or you can click the customise button which will then give you a series of upgrade options you can select and how much extra it will cost.

If your daughter is just doing word processing, internet browsing etc the XPS laptop might be overkill (ie you'll be paying for more than she actually needs). There are cheaper laptops listed in this thread for stuff like that. Though if she DOES do anything graphics intensive (such as gaming, computer aided design etc) then that XPS is a good deal.

AlanR

kle87 wrote: »

Tesco Direct have a good deal on an Acer at the moment and you get club card points!

Acer Aspire 4315 for £299
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There seem to be quite a lot of offers at £299 at the moment, with roughly similar specifications. E.g. ebuyer have not only the HP6720S flagged by Siliconbits in this thread (9 Jan) but also the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo V5535 and the Toshiba L40-15A, all at £299 with free delivery. Amazon have the Acer Aspire 5315, again at £299 and also with free delivery if you're prepared to wait for their "super saver" service. No club card points on any of these tho'...

What I've been looking for and can't currently find is any replacement for the Morgan Computers Gateway offer mentioned by Siliconbits at £249. This has now finished, so far as I can tell. The nearest Morgan have at the moment is the fairly similar ML6226B with 2 GB of RAM and a free backpack thrown in, but this costs £299 so it too falls into the price bracket of the ones already listed. Any ideas, anyone? I'm only after a cheap machine to take on holiday for email etc, so I want to spend as little as possible. (And the Asus eeePC is something I'm thinking about, but it's a very different sort of beast.)

Alan

moonrakermagpie

>>>>>>There seem to be quite a lot of offers at £299 at the moment, with roughly similar specifications. E.g. ebuyer have not only the HP6720S flagged by Siliconbits in this thread (9 Jan) but also the Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo V5535 and the Toshiba L40-15A, all at £299 with free delivery. Amazon have the Acer Aspire 5315, again at £299 and also with free delivery if you're prepared to wait for their "super saver" service. No club card points on any of these tho'... <<<<<<


are all of these wireless compatable

elpaw

Here are a few new offers on the Dell XPS m1330. For £485.39 delivered:

Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor T5450 (1.66 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB)
LCD 13.3" UltraSharp WXGA (1280x800) CCFL Display (220nits) with TrueLife Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Built In 2.0 mega pixel Camera
Biometric Fingerprint Reader
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
Fixed 8x DVD+/-RW Slim Slot Load Drive, including SW
Primary 4-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (37 WHr) Lightweight
Dell TrueMobile 355 internal Bluetooth Module
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-Card
Microsoft® Works 8.0

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&oc=N0113352&dgc=AF&cid=5212&lid=122756

you have to take it all the way through to the basket, and get the Free Delivery discount, and voucher code VC6X4PMZH0LH9Q for 10% off. You can also use Quidco to get the price down to ~£465.

BP56134

So if I need a laptop to replace the one that just blew up (it stinks!!!), and I have the Microsoft Office Suite that I use, on disc, what do I need?
I use it for work away from my home office, so need to store lots of fairly large images, apart from that usual e-mail and networking usage.
Please don't suggest Dell - My main computer is that and I have had numerous problems with them, their after sales customer care stinks worse than my laptop, and I am in dispute with their sales department over their warranty, on my behalf and three other peoples!
Where do I start wihtout Dell?

tinymarsden

I am thinking of getting the HP Pavilion G6032 Notebook £399. through the HP website.
Can anyone please advise if this is a good deal as I am a bit confused with all the deals at the moment.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/21675-38187-38191-38191-38191-80247790-81076793.html?jumpid=in_rm_r2515_uk_en_dsc_hho_20071211152031610

I don't know if this link works

JDPower

tinymarsden wrote: »

I am thinking of getting the HP Pavilion G6032 Notebook £399. through the HP website.
Can anyone please advise if this is a good deal as I am a bit confused with all the deals at the moment.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/21675-38187-38191-38191-38191-80247790-81076793.html?jumpid=in_rm_r2515_uk_en_dsc_hho_20071211152031610

I don't know if this link works

That actually looks a pretty good deal for the money:money:

BP56134

I'm considering the Lenovo N200 Laptop from Ebuyer at the moment. Adding an extra 2GB memory to bring it to 3 in total, the package works out at £423 - http://www.ebuyer.com/bundle/C77FDPJY5

JDPower

BP56134 wrote: »

I'm considering the Lenovo N200 Laptop from Ebuyer at the moment. Adding an extra 2GB memory to bring it to 3 in total, the package works out at £423 - http://www.ebuyer.com/bundle/C77FDPJY5

Have you checked it has enough slots to do that? Most laptops only have two RAM slots in which case you'll only be able to take out the 1GB installed (probably 2x512MB) and put the two upgrade 1gb sticks in to make 2GB RAM.

BP56134

Ebuyer seem to think it can - they do two 'bundles' - one with an extra 1GB, the other with an extra 2GB, and that is also listed as the maximum in the specs for the laptop.
Has anyone got any experience of this please?