which 1 of these laptops

FirstTimer4Me

hiya

can someone suggest which 1 of these laptops wil be best

i would prefer a 15.6 inch screen but i only need the laptop for surfing - emails - itunes.

£349.00 is a little more above my budget which is £300.00

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1872379287.1264777085@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccgdadejhkghdfkcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=220749&category_oid=-38094

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/613460/TOSHIBA-L450D-13Z

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/582018/COMPAQ-CQ61-317SA

thanks if someone can help.

johnny22clare

the major thing you have to look for when buying a computer is ram ram ram and more ram windows xp used to be capable of running pretty quick on half a gig of ram but vista is a very heavy OS needs a min of at least 1 gig of ram to even operate my suggestion to you is go for somthing with 3 gig of ram any more than three is a waste of do your reasearch you may be able to pick up a cheap laptop with 2Gb of ram installed and then buy a gig of ram and stick it in think of ram as your desk space the more deskspace you have the more room you have the more programs you can work with at one time ie listen to itunes while surfing the net and maybe also have a disk burning in the background and an email program running in the background if you want your pc to multitask then ram is your best friend my preferance is at least 2 gigs of ram any less than that with vista and your dealing with an oversized calculator hope this helps

firedrone

Personally would say that AMD is not a great processor to go for, if you want something for a decent budget on a brand make this might be worth an interest

ebuyer.com/product/179395

imo, 300 is a real small budget to work on for a laptop, I've worked in the computer industry for nine years now if you have any questions feel free to pm me.

FirstTimer4Me

thanks for the help although to a novice like me it's all very confusing

i noticed this 1 at £329.00 which is lower than the others

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-0828.aspx

i know £300 is not a lot for laptop but it's all i can afford

FirstTimer4Me

firedrone wrote: »

ebuyer.com/product/179395

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179395

there's £20.00 difference between the 1 you quoted above and this 1

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-0828.aspx

debitcardmayhem

Try looking at https://www.misco.co.uk Open Box products they often have some fair deals

debitcardmayhem

I also saw this site last week, but I have not read anything about them lots to choose from - here
I know you don't need more choices but hey there are a lot of dual core ones on here mainly Vista in your range but ther is a Tosh with W7 at 319.99

debitcardmayhem

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

I also saw this site last week, but I have not read anything about them lots to choose from - here
I know you don't need more choices but hey there are a lot of dual core ones on here mainly Vista in your range but ther is a Tosh with W7 at 319.99

Just looked again -- they seem to be mainly factory refurbs

Flexible_Friend

Acer Aspire 5732Z Laptop (Intel Pentium® Dual Core T4300, 4GB, 500GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium)

£397.00

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-6879.aspx

Acer Aspire 5332 Laptop (Intel Celeron© Dual-Core T3000, 4GB, 320GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium)

£369.00

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-7691.aspx

Acer Aspire 5332 Laptop (Intel Celeron© Dual-Core T3000, 3GB, 250GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Premium)

£349.00

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-2571.aspx


Acer Aspire 5332 Laptop (Intel Celeron© Dual-Core T3000, 3GB, 160GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium)

£339.00

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-7486.aspx

zaralondon

What have you decided firsttimer?

FirstTimer4Me

hiya

thanks everyone for your help

zaralondon wrote: »

What have you decided firsttimer?

i decided to buy this 1 http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-0828.aspx

a- because its all i can afford & b - should there be any issues at leat i can take it back rather than have to send by post

ta everyone for all the help