New laptop

thenakedchef

Hello

Hope someone can help. My girlfriend is looking for a new laptop to spend around 300-400.

She will be mostly using it for office work, internet, and itunes.

Any good deals out there at the moment?

alexandera

I recommend Toshiba Satellite series for best multimedia use.

Sowilo_2

alexandera wrote: »

I recommend Toshiba Satellite series for best multimedia use.

I got a L450 recently to replace a HP. Only got one complaint; the webcam is rubbish, which doesn't matter to me. Other than that fine machine.

KillerWatt

Second vote for the L450 series.

Bought the kids one each for chrimbo just gone, dual core 64bit CPU, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 64bit OS (7 Home Premium), DVD-R Multidrive, HDMI out, yada, yada, yada...and obtained for £379 inc.
They have been dropped, trodden on, generally abused as kids have a tendancy to do, and they still work quite happily.

oliver84_2

Sowilo wrote: »

I got a L450 recently to replace a HP. Only got one complaint; the webcam is rubbish, which doesn't matter to me. Other than that fine machine.

how about battery life?

Sowilo_2

oliver84 wrote: »

how about battery life?

Poor, but for me that does not matter as it delivers and at £349 from Comet does the deal.

Hammyman

Saw this on ebay. Looks like the ones Tesco are doing for £340. Seems to come with Vista but I think the ones at Tesco are Windows 7. Feedback looks OK and it looks like they sell quite a lot of ex-display stock. There's some more of these L300's on Ebay a bit cheaper but they seem to be Celeron CPUs however the Celeron ones will be more than up to what she wants to do.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290439896290

Search for similar:
http://computers.shop.ebay.co.uk/Laptops-Netbooks-/177/i.html?_nkw=toshiba+satellite+l300&_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

If she's not bothered about second hand, a Thinkpad T61 is a cracking machine, bombproof and you should be able to find someone selling them with some onsite warranty left.

Donnie

The MSI CR-610 is a feature packed possibility from Argos returns for £390. Even has a BluRay player or there is this Toshiba Satellite L500D-16L for £354. You could always try one and send it back if it doesn't suit.

thenakedchef

Thanks all, i think she has been looking at the tesco ones, said she likes the acer ones, i guess no special requirements really. Im not very good at deciding which one is prob best value for money really??

Donnie

thenakedchef wrote: »

Thanks all, i think she has been looking at the tesco ones, said she likes the acer ones, i guess no special requirements really. Im not very good at deciding which one is prob best value for money really??

The Toshiba in my post is still selling for £500, here and here. At £354 it's good value.

Sunshine12

whatever you buy make sure its not a Dell!