The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

chili2001

Steve_xx wrote: »

Once you've added the shipping in it comes out at: £156.61!

Still cheaper than £159.99 though. Find a £10 off voucher too and your laughing at £146.61

emmashine

Guys - have you tried eBay for bargain laptops? I just bought my new Acer laptop for £120 brand new. There are hundreds for sale on the site and there are plenty of eBay shops selling specifically electronics.

Optimist

emmashine wrote: »

Guys - have you tried eBay for bargain laptops? I just bought my new Acer laptop for £120 brand new. There are hundreds for sale on the site and there are plenty of eBay shops selling specifically electronics.

Mmm three posts in total and all recommending using Ebay.

Are you on commission ?

chili2001

Optimist wrote: »

Mmm three posts in total and all recommending using Ebay.

Are you on commission ?

The way her posts are worded i'm sure she works for ebay promotions too! Naughty naughty girl!

stamford

chili2001 wrote: »

The way her posts are worded i'm sure she works for ebay promotions too! Naughty naughty girl!

Maybe she can give us all the link for the new £120 Acers if there's any still left I'd like 2 or 3

arkonite_babe

arkonite_babe wrote: »

The other one I'm checking out is this one
PC World

I ended up buying the model that pc world has, but got it from Argos £20 cheaper. :money:

montymonty_2

am looking for a fast and reliable alternative to my macbook used for my business.
is this a potential solution?

MSE_Martin wrote: »

I thought I would start this one of myself. !I have deliberately picked the old high street knee trembler PC World, as I know posting from such a shop (i know, don't spit) will goad all techies into finding a better deal within a millisecond to ensure it isn't the current running.



While 1 Gb is no longer super fast, it is more than adequate for most people looking for office functions and to surf the web. !

OK so that's my ultra quick starter for ten. !Come on MoneySavers smash it....

jennieshrew

Oh my, im so confused. I have read all of the last twenty pages and still dont know which laptop to buy. I need a laptop which I can use the internet, send emails, watch DVDs, store lots of photos, do lots of stuff on Excel and use accounting type software. I only really use it at home.

I found this horrible pink and black thing on ebuyer.com but I really have no idea if it would be any good or if I could buy something better for less. The options seem to be endless and the specs mean nothing to me.

From reading your posts 2GB of RAM seems to be the minimum one ought to go for if you want to be able to do anything remotely complicated on there. Apart from that i'm stuck.

Is this any good and can I buy a better one for less?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/165374

I have a dell laptop which has packed in and I found that buying replacement batteries and leads was so prohibitively expensive that it has put me off Dell. Im sure I would ignore that hatred if they had the best laptop though.....

Please help!

sukysue

Jennie I do sympathize I found the same problem when I bought ours. Thing is you can go by all the advice in the world but there will always be differing opinions to listen to. I think you should probably go with the best spec for the amount of money you can spend stating the obvious I know. My nephew bought a dell from tesco and is thrilled with it, we have bought, in the past, a packard bell that was brilliant , a hp which is brilliant , a hp compaq which hubby thinks is fab and I hate and an advent which is actually very good on the sly!Lots of things differ to make the performance better I mean for instance the type of broadband you get , how fast it is, also we use google chrome on all our laptops now instead of ie and find it freezes far less than before.All minor things I know. Also we are beware of any ready installed anti virus programes on a very kind 90 day trial as they are utter s**t and you can't get them off your damn puter for love nor money these are all things that make your puter run slower than normal I am certainly no expert and I am prob wrong about a few details and I am sure I will be shot down in flames very soon ! Good luck in choosing fwiw!The only thing I will say is that we bought ours from Mr T and they were very good when something went wrong we had a replacement immediately.

chili2001

jennieshrew wrote: »

Oh my, im so confused. I have read all of the last twenty pages and still dont know which laptop to buy. I need a laptop which I can use the internet, send emails, watch DVDs, store lots of photos, do lots of stuff on Excel and use accounting type software. I only really use it at home.

I found this horrible pink and black thing on ebuyer.com but I really have no idea if it would be any good or if I could buy something better for less. The options seem to be endless and the specs mean nothing to me.

From reading your posts 2GB of RAM seems to be the minimum one ought to go for if you want to be able to do anything remotely complicated on there. Apart from that i'm stuck.

Is this any good and can I buy a better one for less?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/165374

I have a dell laptop which has packed in and I found that buying replacement batteries and leads was so prohibitively expensive that it has put me off Dell. Im sure I would ignore that hatred if they had the best laptop though.....

Please help!

No that one is rubbish for the cash! I certainly wouldn't spend any less on a laptop, vista needs a good cpu and lots of ram to run propally or it will be annoyingly slow! I would spend a little more and go for:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164845 or for an extra £60 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158885 which has a better cpu, webcam and massive 500 gig hard drive. Perfect for all your photo's! :-)