Seen a Dell Laptop-need some advice and guidance

purply

Ive seena laptop which i think has a decent spec drom dell.
Its priced at £499. I don't know much about laptops and would appreciate some advice!
I only need it for usual-documents internet email. (no gaming etc)

Its the Inspiron 1300:
-has 1024 Ram memory
80 GB Hard drive

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/inspn_1300?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

(left hand side of the page)

Thank you!

keithwales

Try the lappies on this site.

Just bought a Toshiba from them. Prices seem good.

http://www.shoplaptop.co.uk/sess/utn;jsessionid=1544950eb355fdf/shopdata/index.shopscript

purply

Thanks.

I still cant help thinking that the DELL one is cheaper and you still get more memory...

Lord_Chris

shoplaptop are not cheap at all, i bought my sony vaio from comet because they were the cheapest around funnily enough.

that laptop looks pretty good for the money, but forget the memory because the memory is only good if the processor is good enough to match (crap processor = memory will be crap even if its good) is that makes sense.

Ignore the 1024 memory because with 1.6gb processing 512 would do it fine.

but overall, thats not a bad price. If you had the money though i would recommend a sony laptop - dells have had a lot of problems and i personally dislike them. Sony do good gear for the money and their service is superb, i had a dvd writer problem december 23rd, they collected it christmas eve and i had it back on december 28th. now thats good service

BigAl94

Good spec, Dell produce good kit at sensible prices. Ideal for your purpose. Only thought is, how are you connecting to the net, if wirelessly you would be better off with the Centrino mobile processor in the second column, otherwise thats the one for you

steve_r123

There has been endless discussion on the Inspiron 1300 in this thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=160739&highlight=dell+1300

However, for £100 more the Inspiron 6400 is a better laptop

purply

Thanks for all your replies.
I would love a sony laptop-but not enough spondoolies!

I would like to be able to use wireless t connect to the internet-does this spec not offer that?

I will check out the endless discussion. Thanks for the link.

worto03

I ordered that laptop from dell for my dad yesterday. Comes with a free printer at the moment too which is handy cuz my moms after a new printer.

If you don't need a printer though wait a few days for the next deal they are always giving something away with them.

happy hunting,
worto.

purply

thanks
Ive now seen a laptop on the comet webiste-TOSHIBA AMD Turion, 1.8Ghz, 512 ram, 80GB storage

£549

I think this is a good spec...
Anyone think the same?

keithwales

Sounds good.
Just bought a Toshiba from Shoplaptop. Oh well maybe they're not the cheapest 'LordChris' but they have a huge choice of spec.

Got 512mb 60gb machine with XP Pro and 3yr guarantee for £590.

May not be the cheapest mate, but I'd spent a lot of time looking and I think I got a good buy.

Lord_Chris

keith, ill give you that, they are VERY good on their choice, and they give the specs in a very neat way. use them for research yes, but buying from them is just lazy.