Choice of Two Laptops (sub £360) Which One is the best

rolo1_2

Hi All - Please Help

I have a £200 e-voucher for use on Tesco Direct. I want to buy a laptop and spend as little of my own money as possible. I have boiled it down to a choice of two.

1. Toshiba L450-136 Laptop (Intel Celeron® M900, 3GB, 160GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium) £349
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-2877.aspx

2. Acer AS5532 Laptop (AMD Athlon™ 64 TF20, 3GB, 250GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium) £359
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-7915.aspx

I know there is better spec for money elsewere, but as I mentioned I have £200 Tesco voucher I need to use. I don't want to go over the £380 total cost if I can help it.

What one of the two laptops above is the best do you think? - It will only be used for basic use, internet, word etc (no gaming). Many Thanks in advance.

Red_Rose_Exile

Swings and roundabouts, The acer has the slightly better Operating system , larger hard drive, wireless ability, and card reader. The Tosh has a better processor, HD output and more USB ports and webcam. On balance, it would be the Tosh for me

rolo1_2

Thanks Red Rose Exile.

Anyone else have any thoughts? - Any comments Greatly appriciated.

Freebyman

Very close, but my vote goes for the Acer. The better version of windows edges it, also I do prefer AMD processors but will say that the Toshiba is perfectly capable as well.

[Deleted User]

Both don't have great CPUs. For the money I'd pick this laptop:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&oc=N0054503&dgc=AF&cid=5212&lid=122756&acd=807bc45f7166ce4ed613423c20278522

• Intel® Celeron Dual Core T3100 (1.90 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache) - Better CPU than both
• Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit- English - Same OS, the Tosh has conflicting info, one line says Home Premium the next Starter Edition
• 15.6" Widescreen WXGA WLED (1366 x 768) TFT Display with TrueLife™ - Same
• 3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024] - Same
• 250GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive - More than Tosh, equal to Acer
• Intel Integrated GMA 4500MHD - Better than Tosh, worse than Acer but neither are much use for gaming
• Total £349.00

I'd also say Dell have a lot better build quality / reliability over Tosh and especially Acer

pendulum

Freebyman wrote: »

The better version of windows edges it

Red_Rose_Exile wrote: »

The acer has the slightly better Operating system

Am I going mad? They both have the same version of Windows.

darich

pendulum wrote: »

Am I going mad? They both have the same version of Windows.

I must be going mad too....both state Windows 7 Home Premium.

Are we missing something?

[Deleted User]

As above, the tosh has conflicting info:

Toshiba L450-136 Laptop (Intel Celeron® M900, 3GB, 160GB, 15.6" Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium)

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium - the latest operating system

Microsoft Windows® 7 Starter Edition 64 bit

Red_Rose_Exile

Windows 7 Starter only allows 3 concurrent apps at a time to be open, excluding AV and firewall, which can be a bit limiting, so which is it? Home Edition or Home edition Starter

truthman007

Try this one better than above two
SONY Vaio VPC EB1E0E/WI @ Dixons delivered free £457 after discount code and 3.2% quidco

http://www.bargainspy.co.uk/node/359557

AMD Athlon is not my favour, it makes too much noise from fan, and getting heated quickly.

Use your voucher for something else in Tesco if possible, always extra few quids make you happy lot of ways.

Esqui

rolo1 wrote: »

I know there is better spec for money elsewere, but as I mentioned I have £200 Tesco voucher I need to use.

Am I the only one that read this part?


The Acer gets my vote.