The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

my_definition

hi guys,

looking for some advice. im a full time student and so is my boyfriend so were both skint. However, weve not long moved in and starting with the problem of one comp when both of us need to be on it. I'm looking for a reasonable laptop thats relatively cheap. could mayble strech to £350 max but we re on a tight budget and mostly surviving on loans.

Its going to be used mostly for internet and word documents but my computers getting old so it needs to be fairly fast.

im looking for 1+ gb ram and 160 memory

thanks

butterbeanmash

Hi all,

I've just bought one of these;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290345495047&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

It's a Medion S5610. I went to their showroom and asked what the best offer was and it's £349.99. The laptops are as new, and most are still sealed from Medion, with restore disc, warranty, laptop bag, Nero and Windows 7 upgrade offer.

Hope this helps someone.

rev_henry

butterbeanmash wrote: »

Hi all,

I've just bought one of these;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290345495047&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

It's a Medion S5610. I went to their showroom and asked what the best offer was and it's £349.99. The laptops are as new, and most are still sealed from Medion, with restore disc, warranty, laptop bag, Nero and Windows 7 upgrade offer.

Hope this helps someone.

That's not bad at all, especially with proper graphics. I might get myself one of those...

Always_Harassed

aparently its £399.99 now? have they just put the price up?

rev_henry

Always_Harassed wrote: »

aparently its £399.99 now? have they just put the price up?

Think butterbean meant that the lowest they'd take is £349.99 on the best offer button.

butterbeanmash

rev_henry wrote: »

Think butterbean meant that the lowest they'd take is £349.99 on the best offer button.

Yes. I asked at the showroom what the 'best offer' was and he immediately said £349.99, so I assume that's what they accept on the eBay auction.

CHR15

koppite79 wrote: »

Bought one of the Dell Inspiron 17's that are on sale in CPW
£313 after quidco

I bought one for a friend from there. Placed order at 6.30pm

Received an email at 9.03pm saying it had been dispatched

Had a missed delivery the next day but I went to collect it from the depot.

I can't comment on the Laptop as it is for a friend to give his son for Xmas but from the delivery point of view, you can't get any better.

Mandark

nickliv wrote: »

Cheers for that.

Apparently it has to have the same 'features' but not the same specs. (I would be astounded if you could get hold of another [STRIKE]radiator[/STRIKE] P4 machine now)

The old one was 17 inch, with a full size keypad, with a numerical pad, and had wireless, bluetooth, and a lightscribe drive.

I'm guessing that these are pretty normal in modern machines, possibly with the exception of the lightscribe drive.

I am used to being corrected though, and am prepared to be.

If they want me to run vista, I shall hold out for any extra RAM I can get, as it's (reputedly) so power hungry.

Well these are the new HP 17" models. See if the insurers will accept the Core 2 Duo model. Will come with Windows 7 now.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF25a/321957-321957-3329744-64354-64354-3999447.html

danny_quality

koppite79 wrote: »

Bought one of the Dell Inspiron 17's that are on sale in CPW

£313 after quidco

Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200 2.0 Ghz, which scores really well on testing
2gb memory (can be increased to 8gb)
17" HD widescreen
250 GB hard drive
Bluetooth
1.3 MP webcam
Windows 7 upgrade free

Picking it up from store tmrw so will post a quick review, but the feedback from others and the spec is just incredible for the price!

Well happy!

Where is CPW?
Cheers

JDPower

danny_quality wrote: »

Where is CPW?
Cheers

Carphone Warehouse