The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

BritishBeef

Thanks everyone. I've just bitten the bullet and bought the Acer Aspire 1694WLMi.
Delivery tommorrow. I'm very excited - I love my toys!

eplives

Hi guys need some help concerning laptops. I want a amd turion 64 unit but Toshiba dont do one as they only deal with intel which ive been told is not as fast as amd. Next alternative is a compaq v5030 or v5094.
Am i being too specific in wanting an amd chip its only that i've heard it will be work on the new windows operation system as it is a 64 bit and not a 32 bit chip? Im open to suggestions. By the way my budget is up to £650.00

Kilty_2

monkeyspanner wrote:

Scrub that last post they have just put all back up £60. DOOH!!

N03135B has not, still £289 and is listed in the "As seen on TV" part of the site, under "Purchase Assistance".

Bargain if you ask me

monkeyspanner

Kilty wrote:

N03135B has not, still £289 and is listed in the "As seen on TV" part of the site, under "Purchase Assistance".

Bargain if you ask me

Also N03136 (same as N03135B but wider screen and extra 256MRam) is £339 still available via small business section but is £399 via home systems. Small business is not charging for delivery.

tall.small

Hi

When I try for the NO3136 with the bigger battery and cheap printer the price comes out at 360.83 after VAT, that includes changing the warrenty to 90 days? How do I get it cheaper.

Help!

monkeyspanner

tall.small wrote:

Hi

When I try for the NO3136 with the bigger battery and cheap printer the price comes out at 360.83 after VAT, that includes changing the warrenty to 90 days? How do I get it cheaper.

Help!

£360.83 sounds right. Basic system(ex vat) £288.62 + 6 cell £10 + printer £8.47 =£307.09+vat=£360.83.

tall.small

Thanks for the quick reply. Should have checked my figures better.

Is the NO3136 a far better deal than the N3135B and worth the £60 price difference?

Just want to get the best value possible. Laptop will mainly be used for interenet basic home stuff nothing to flash.

Thanks again

monkeyspanner

tall.small wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply. Should have checked my figures better.

Is the NO3136 a far better deal than the N3135B and worth the £60 price difference?

Just want to get the best value possible. Laptop will mainly be used for interenet basic home stuff nothing to flash.

Thanks again

If you run multiple applications you could probably do with the extra RAM this option provides double RAM for less than the option upgrade which is about £70 I think. However if you usually only run with one or two programs and you are not bothered about the bigger screen then go with the cheaper one.

dc2447

It's never going to cost more than £25 to manually upgrade a laptop's memory to 512mb - the amount of ram that comes witha laptop shouldn't factor in your calculations

BritishBeef

OK, So I was really really excited to have bought my first ever laptop as I posted about earlier I went for the Acer Inspire 1694WLMI for £786 (see my post further up this thread for specs).
Well I have always been extremely unlucky with new computers - my last 3 PC's all had faults from new and had to be replaced / repaired. I had to drive 15 miles to collect my new laptop from City Link as they tried to deliver during the 10 minutes I was out yesterday (!!). I got it home opened the box and fired up the laptop. Really happy with the look of the laptop and there were no dead pixels! Result! Then I noticed that something wasn't right at the screens edge. Yep, BROKEN The plastic surround that meets and holds the tft screen isn't attached meaning there's about a 1mm gap between the screen and the plastic surround. When I try and push them together it's all loose and clicks but won't go back together. It also means that the laptop won't close fully to engage one of the catches

I can't believe it. I'm so completely gutted. I bought it from www.acernotebooks.co.uk and looking at the site today, they are now out of stock. The site states that with Acer laptops the warranty is with Acer. How do I stand on this. I don't want a refund because I can't get this laptop anywhere else with this spec for the money I paid. It's being phased out it would seem as stock is very low everywhere.

I'm totally deflated now as I had spent ages researching the right laptop for me and the price I paid for the spec was really good.