HP G61-110sa Laptop

hb45

HI all
We are looking for a laptop in the £400 bracket and reckoned that best offers were to be had in the post christmas sales.
The Toshiba L500-1CQ 15.6" at Tesco was the frontrunner, but then along came the HP G61 -110sa in Currys with a whopping £200 knocked off ! This ticks all the boxes -4gb,Windows 7, decent battery life etc... Have tried to read reviews but can't seem to find any. Is this a reliable laptop or is there something that I'm missing

Donnie

hb45 wrote: »

HI all
We are looking for a laptop in the £400 bracket and reckoned that best offers were to be had in the post christmas sales.
The Toshiba L500-1CQ 15.6" at Tesco was the frontrunner, but then along came the HP G61 -110sa in Currys with a whopping £200 knocked off ! This ticks all the boxes -4gb,Windows 7, decent battery life etc... Have tried to read reviews but can't seem to find any. Is this a reliable laptop or is there something that I'm missing

If you are confident in the aftersales service of the DSG group, then it's an option. Was never a £600 laptop though.
Before you get too excited, you might want to verify the battery run times.

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computershack

Donnie wrote: »

Was never a £600 laptop though.

Indeed. I have a "was a £600 laptop". It is a Samsung Professional range and the build quality over the R range is immediately obvious. A downside is that it has a smaller hard drive and memory than the R range ( 160GB vs 320GB and 2GB vs 3GB respectively ) but it'll still be going with little sign of wear long after the R range has fallen to bits. Oh and it has a proper Core 2 Duo processor whereas the R range has a Pentium Dual Core which is not the same CPU.

A lot of the laptops currently in the sales sub £450 are masking poor build quality, poor materials and slow processors with big hard drives and unnecessary amounts of RAM and a glossy finish. They also use 15.6" screens and flog them as a benefit when actually the real reason they're using them is because at 1366x768 resolution, they're the same panels as the LCD tellies they sell so it saves them a bundle.

Krissy306

just orderd hp one!!! searched 4 info on it in google and this came up:)