I wanna buy a laptop

alikat_3

If you need a DVD drive I think you need to be looking at £250 plus. I'm a big fan of IBM T & X series, which are excellent machines. My daughter bought a very good X series Pentium 2 with CD for £130 on Ebay, which she connected to broadband with no problems & upgraded her OS & ram when she had available cash. Many if not all of the T series have removable CD/DVD drive so worth considering for later upgrade.

To be honest this budget & games are likely to be your biggest problem, if you want a decent cheap PC of any kind, run it as an office & run games on Xbox, Playstation etc.

anley1

Why laptop, better to get a desktop especially if money is an issue.

£350 can get a pretty good desktop, Pentium 4, flat screen monitor, 512mb ram etc, Dell have an offer on right now.

But £350 for a laptop, bad machine unless you want it to just check email, write a letter, surf simple internet sites, or do you home accounts etc.

alikat has it right, cheap computer + xbox or playstation is the only way around this problem otherwise it's a laptop of around £500 without sbox/playstation/

Kirsty262

anley1 wrote:

Why laptop, better to get a desktop especially if money is an issue.

£350 can get a pretty good desktop, Pentium 4, flat screen monitor, 512mb ram etc, Dell have an offer on right now.

But £350 for a laptop, bad machine unless you want it to just check email, write a letter, surf simple internet sites, or do you home accounts etc.

alikat has it right, cheap computer + xbox or playstation is the only way around this problem otherwise it's a laptop of around £500 without sbox/playstation/

she wants a laptop as she doesn't have room in her bedroom for a desktop

Kilty_2

You could get a cheap used PIII on ebay for that kind of money, but youll have to deal with knackered batteries, unknown history etc.

My reccomendation: Save another £200 and buy the Dell Inspiron 1300, I got mine with the 15.4" widescreen, 6 cell battery for £350.75 and love it, could do with more memory but it isnt that urgent and only costs £27. (DO NOT buy memory from Dell!)

Little_John

Edinburghlass wrote:

If you want to use the newer Sims games on the laptop you will need a good graphics card and not shared graphics (?) as I had to update the graphics on the pc for my daughter with Sims 2.

Sims 2 requires directx 9 compatible graphics. pretty much every laptop uses shared memory that isnt the problem the problem is that not all graphics chips are direct x 9 compatible.

The Graphics Media Accelerator 900 that comes with the Dell inspiron 1300 is directx 9 compatible, a lack of memory wouldnt give blistering performance but it will play the original sims no problem and sims 2 will work also.

justpaper

if shes not worrying about the look of it and wants a good working laptop save up 450£ all in all and get a thinkpad they are what the suits use,. (i got one my self) very much do hold there vaule,..

as for 150£ like members have said u wouldnt get nothing much for that,.

heres something to think about i have a advent laptop with flicking screen but when u touch it .it stops flicking its not the best of spec only has 1ghz processer and about 258ram,.,. battery last 30minzs totals then needs charging,. and i could still sell it for 130 - 150£