The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

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d123
There was an advert in the local free paper Chesterfield Advertiser 1/2/08

12" widescreen, wireless, 3 year warranty, it says Targa on the ad but also says Win XP, AMD, LG, Western Digital

http://www.targa.co.uk/index.jsp?NAV=236&PCAT=2&PTUBE=12

toasterman

Only thing wrong with that is the "up to 2 hours battery life". That's pretty poor.

apartridge87

I'd personally recommend the toshiba satellite range..they have a higher spec than those previously mentioned but still for a pretty good price..cheapest Ive seen is here: http://www.dcsplc.co.uk/product/98220

Thats one im heavily considering myself on the recommendation of a friend that it lasts longer than 10 minutes and costs less than 500 quid!

dekh

Have you seen the teeny tiny Asus Eee PC?

Not hugely powerful but teeny weeny

d123

In a moment of madness (or so I thought) I have bought a laptop from PC World, and to make it worse it was an Advent. (It was just supposed to be a cheap short term stopgap after a problem with my Toshiba.

But after 2 weeks of use I am really pleasantly surprised by it, it's the Advent 9912 (£349.99), and the build quality is at least as good as my now gone Toshiba u200 (which cost £749.99). I have no plans to replace with another machine in the forseeable future.

The Toshiba was a core2duo 1.66mhz with 1GB RAM while the Advent is (only) a Celeron 1.73mhz which also came with 1GB RAM, I had a spare 512MB module which I have added (Advent had the decency of using 1x1GB, rather than 2x512MB that Toshiba used).

Surprisingly the apparent defiencies of the Advent don't actually have an impact on performance in comparison to the more expensive Toshiba, especially as the Tosh ran XP while the Advent runs Vista Home Premium.

Even heavy duty duty programs like Photoshop CS3 run as well on the Advent.

My conclusion, anyone looking for a cheapish small laptop (12" screen) can do far worse than the Advent 9912, it's nothing like the Advent I tried about 2 years ago, it has good build quality, very good LCD, good battery life and performance to match a Toshiba 12" laptop that cost more than double the price.

Pecunia_non_olet

dekh wrote: »

Have you seen the teeny tiny Asus Eee PC?

Not hugely powerful but teeny weeny

Saw it in PCWorld, wanted it straightaway!

Spec stuff:
£220
800 mHz processor
512 mb RAM
4 gig hard drive - solid state drive
3 x usb
built in wireless, webcam, microphone & speakers
Linux OS

I wouldn't have it as my main computer but I reckon it'd be great for taking with you to work or friends, etc.

Plus it's got Linux not Windows so you get a lot more out of your 800 mHz processor and 512 mb RAM.
:cool:

dekh

It weighs less than 1Kg
You can add more memory.
It comes in black or white
Later this year there should be an 8Gig version

lkoky

Has anyone bought this HP 17" laptop from ebuyer?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133331

It supposedly comes with a £50 cashback, I just wondered whether this is the right model? Because on the claim form there are three 6820 models and only one is with £50 cashback and I couldnt find any details on this particularly model.

Just want to make sure the £50 cashback is actually claimable before order

thanks.

Saeed

Dell were doing a Vostro 1500, core 2 Duo 1.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.4" Trulife, 1yr business hardware warranty, for £311 a little while ago and the Vostro 1500 is rock solid with little flex anywhere.

cath76

Hiya!!!

Is this a good deal please????

I want it for the internet, emails, burning cd's and dvd's, doing comps.

Is this ok, or are there better deals out there?

Any opinions appreciated.

Thanks

Cath








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