Is this a good laptop please

indebtbigtime

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-8537.aspx

There is also one with 4MB OF MEMORY but no webcam for £339

Basically I had a dell inspiron 1545, lots of problems with the screen, so finally took back to tesco for full refund. They were ace at tesco

I have the cash but need a laptop, Dell has gone up at least £50 and having had a bad experience probably want to avoid

I dont want to go to pc world or currys for obvious reasons, so lookign I guess at tesco, john lewis, dab etc etc

I cant go over £380. I am internet meainly - some downloading - iplayer etc, some photos....webcam useful...good battery life also useful but not essential, dont want notebook,

advice appreicated

thanks

xxxx

indebtbigtime

sorry to reply to my own thread

but my mate jimmy reckons this one is really good buy and a good make

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-7976.aspx

I have never heard of levano and note the cscreen is 2" smaller, so maybe keys will be quite small too?

any views?

cooltt

Nice specs for price but processor will slow it down a little. Only really an issue if you watch lots of vids / play games or work with lots of windows at once.

Other than that it's got all the standard stauff you'd expect.

davester

Lenovo used to be IBM laptop brand, but they sold it to some chinese company, not sure if they are any good anymore.

Doesn't really say what the graphics card is or how much Graphics RAM it has. but the processor is quite slow.

cooltt

yes specs are better but processor is even slower than the Acer one. It all boils down to what you want it for. If you don't want all the bells and whistles that you will never use then just get a nice cheap fast one.

indebtbigtime

cool acer it is

do u think the
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-8537.aspx or the

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-9915.aspx

The 2nd one appears to have 4gb rather than 3 which sounds faster but less battery and no webcam

not sure if the extra spoeed will be significant enough to be worth going for this one?

indebtbigtime

oh for me fast is good

cooltt

oohhh....the second one's far better twice as fast too. Don't worry about built in web cams their not that good, if you want to use one on a regular basis buy a good one, they're quite cheap now.

Incidently a got a loptop from Tesco direct almost 2 years old now never had a days trouble with it. It's gateway but Acer are a good build too.

Zanzibar

The best 'general' laptop for the ££ varies from week to week - at the moment the best I have found is this Toshiba at £385 after cash back:

http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=L30029D1GB

This has a processor a couple of models up from those you are looking at. Also Toshiba are one of the better names in Laptops from experience.

Note it has Vista installed (as do many of the Tesco ones) and you would have to claim the 'free' (typically £15) upgrade disk to Windows 7 and load yourself. For me I would always go for the fastest laptop you can afford.

andy2004

Zanzibar wrote: »

The best 'general' laptop for the ££ varies from week to week - at the moment the best I have found is this Toshiba at £385 after cash back:

http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=L30029D1GB

This has a processor a couple of models up from those you are looking at. Also Toshiba are one of the better names in Laptops from experience.

Note it has Vista installed (as do many of the Tesco ones) and you would have to claim the 'free' (typically £15) upgrade disk to Windows 7 and load yourself. For me I would always go for the fastest laptop you can afford.

price is not £385, its £425.69
to quote the page

Special offer : You can claim £50 Cash Back when you purchase any qualifying Toshiba Laptop between 1 November 2009 and 30 November 2009 You can claim Cash Back in this promotion on a maximum of up to 25 qualifying Toshiba laptops purchased per end-user per calendar month*.

well is now DEC 02

Zanzibar

Yes, its ended, didn't notice, 2 days late! - shame, it was the best spec available at that price. Toshiba are still doing the £50 off but on a different range of laptops now (it changes every month) - not as good a selection as far as I can see:

http://www.toshibacashback.com/December/productslist.asp?Home=default


Tesco also had higher spec ones two weeks ago for the same ££ as those mentioned before.