Laptop Computer £330 Any Good ?

royalsteve

Weymouth_Man wrote:

Laptop from woolies
http://www.woolworths.co.uk/ww_p2/product/index.jhtml?pid=50616022

old crap...wouldnt bother myself but i guess its ok for low level tasks like ordinary net surfing (ie not high quality video streaming) and word processing

you would be better off putting your money towards a Toshiba, Dell or Sony....

Toshiba have for years been regarded as the company who makes the best laptops (though debatable now all the major players seems to have caught)

Dell often have some good offers and probably the manaufacturer id go for

Sony - expensive and a premium for the name but they do make nice laptops

HP, Compaq & IBM - generally make crap laptops

royalsteve

bleugh wrote:

good god NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


VIA C7-M754 1.5GHz


re-read that as


'performance approaching that of a PIII 600 Mhz with a headwind'

those processors are BAD, real BAD

yep yesteryear processors

royalsteve

gazbert wrote:

A little melodramatic but the point is accurate. VIA Processors are aimed well and truly at the low performance ultra-low budget market. With performance to match.

yeh watch doom3 chug along in ultra slow jerking motion and then crash!

golddustmedia

Woolworths is for cd's and sweeties, not laptops.

Meatbingo

Mark_Ice wrote:

I was so !!!!!! I miss that offer. All sold out in my local Tesco's

Keep checking. I don't know where you are, but Blackpool had 7 delivered this morning. I picked one up this afternoon.

Loosecannon_3

Personally I would recommend this for £70 more:

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/572_336467.html

A very nice laptop, with the new type brightscreen, bigger screen (15"), 80Gb Hard Disk, a much better processor and wi fi...

Having bought one 2 weeks ago I can say it is a lovelly piece of kit, with no dead pixels, which is always a bonus.

UniversityOfLife

I bought a Medion Laptop a few years ago from Dixons- never again, repairs are a nightmare for these as they are not straightforward, the engineers dont like working on them as they are so fiddly to repair, i rejected it in favour of another make.

greyster

I would check that Tesco deal ... comet instore is selling the same thing for £399.

blokenfeffer

This seems to me to be a very well priced product:

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=40n5

Lenovo £449.98 inc vat

Celeron 1.5GHz
512mb ram
80Gb HDB
DVD/R
WLAN
Bluetooth
4.5h battery
XP Home

Loosecannon_3

So you would recommend a laptop which is the same spec as the one suggested at Comet, without the new style brightscreen, and is £50 more?


Thought this forum was about money saving.....