The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

Pitchshifter

Novatech have a pretty "decent" home/office laptop for £320 which may suit a lot of people in need of a cheap laptop. Free delivery with that as well.
It's the Axses E15 and it has a 15.4inch screen, 160GB HD, etc, etc... heres the link:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=nb&c=home&r=E15

Edit: Quidco also offer 3% for Novatech sales, so thats £9.60 cashback

skinnerneil

Pitchshifter wrote: »

Novatech have a pretty "decent" home/office laptop for £320 which may suit a lot of people in need of a cheap laptop. Free delivery with that as well.
It's the Axses E15 and it has a 15.4inch screen, 160GB HD, etc, etc... heres the link:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=nb&c=home&r=E15

Edit: Quidco also offer 3% for Novatech sales, so thats £9.60 cashback

No OS at that price , with XP or Vista it jumps to £ 400...

How easy is it to install XP on a blank computer ?
And where can I buy the OS from?
How much should I pay?
Will have a rummage through my junk at home , might have one of these from an old PC.

Pitchshifter

Yeah, it kind of makes it less of a good deal, but you have the choice whether or not you want to pay for an OS or what OS you want to put on.
You can buy XP from Ebuyer for £70, or Vista for £84
If you aready have an XP or Vista disk (and key code) from an old computer (or elsewhere), then you can easily install that. Yes it's very easy to install an OS these days, you enter setup, select boot from CD and just insert the disk and follow instructions.

I would not use an OS any older than Windows XP, so if you have a Win98 disk, please don't use that.

You could even put a free OS like Ubuntu Linux on it if you wanted.

dreamer06_2

cherish10 wrote: »

For those who have been advised by COMET staff all have been sold - it is correct however, I purchased one for my mother ysterday.
As long as you pay in full for the laptop in store they will order one for you & lock in @ the current sale price as been advertised on TV over Easter.
We were advised new bulk stock were being delivered straight from Toshiba in 5-8 weeks.

So we have reserved one & they will contact us when it will arrive in store to be collected.

For those who still want this laptop as a bargain - get to your local store now as were advised when new stock arrives it maybe back @ its original price @ £499.99.

:beer:

Hey just a word of warning, I work for Comet at there are very few of these laptops coming in. We're trying, but don't think every customer who has prepaid will get it tbh. If we can't the store should refund the money without question. I'm not saying you wont get yours, but I wouldn't advise anyone going in now to order.

Ian__W_3

Not sure if this has already been mentioned. Morrisons of all places have an Asus X58C laptop for £247! It is only a Celeron 2.0 GB single core processor with 1GB RAM, but comes with Vista Home, DVD-r and 15.4 in screen.

I have just bought one for my wife, who just wants it for Internet and basic Office functionality. £9.99 for an extra 1GB ram delivered from 7dayshop.com and you have a very cheap functional laptop.

The local morrisons were still advertising them the other day when I went in.

sarahpallins

The laptops which you mentioned for poll are good(do not know much about those because never used) but i use Dell and i am very happy with it

undercover_pillow

SSD hard-disks will be coming out for laptops in about 2 years time, you'll spot some great bargins on hard disk ones JUST before they roll out the new ones, keep a look out!

Emmalou

Hey, it's all gone a bit quiet on this thread at the moment!!

For those of you who bought the Asus X59GL, how are you getting on with it? I see that it's still available at Ebuyer and it looks like a good deal.

Does anybody else know of any cracking deals?

PrudentPanda

The new ACer Aspire timeline looks like a good deal if you want something that looks really smart as well :j

flossy_splodge

PrudentPanda wrote: »

The new ACer Aspire timeline looks like a good deal if you want something that looks really smart as well :j

wHERE, WHAT PRICE AND WHAT'S THE SPEC PLEASE?:o