Buying new laptop Help needed

cola_bottle

I don't know where to start I am looking to buy online and have a maximum budget of £300 though £250-£270 Is what I am looking to pay(anything less would be a lovely bonus!)
I DO NOT want a netbook(eww), the only brand of laptop I have had before is Toshibas so my knowledge on any other brand is limited

No less than 2GB of Ram
More than 120GB hard drive(I store alot of music and pictures)
Wireless
CD/DVD drive
Use is for internet, Itunes, Youtube, Facebook and their games and emailing and LOTS of downloading of music
Windows 7 if possibe but would be more than happy with Vista



Can you guys help find me my perfect Laptop

I will be buying tommorow/thursday at the latest and have gotten so overwhelmed with all these different sites I just have to give up for now lol

G_M

Donthejuan wrote: »

Scroll to the end of the Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion at the top of this Techie Stuff Forum.

Though be aware most of the laptops recommended there are 'refurbished'. However that may be the only option given your rqmts and budget.

Hammyman

You want all that for under £300 and want it to last longer than a day after the warranty expires? Good luck with that. Personally I'd buy a very good used one. £300 should get you a nearly new one on Ebay with far better spec.

cola_bottle

Hammyman wrote: »

You want all that for under £300 and want it to last longer than a day after the warranty expires? Good luck with that. Personally I'd buy a very good used one. £300 should get you a nearly new one on Ebay with far better spec.

I don't see why not? And in any case what I should of wrote in my original post is NEW to me, A refurb wouldn't be looked down on a long as it wasn't seriously damaged.

I don't want somebodys old laptop with all their stuff on

[Deleted User]

Try this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/222476. It only has 1Gb of RAM but that is easily upgradeable when u can afford it, and I have one of these lap tops, it works fine on Windows 7 even with games (and I am most impatient lol, couldn't cope with a slow system). I tend to look at ebuyer first when wanting to buy pc components etc as they are often the cheapest and there's no fuss if u want to return it. Its not going to be the fastest possible lappy.., but isn't bad (and more than good enough for what u want), and is the size screen u want (very hard to find for under £350 with W7).

cola_bottle

dell.mannn wrote: »

Hello Donnie . Donnie Donnie is offline PPR * User Lists Last Activity: Yesterday 3:07 PM. Reported to MSE Staff your new username.

How does this assist me in buying a new laptop?

I am ready to buy now money in bank, help me out........ anyone?

cola_bottle

dell.mannn wrote: »

because Donnie was PPR'd and was causing abuse and furore on the forum, that is why and he even tried to log in today and with a new user name, we are all fed up of him spoiling forum for all. Donnie Donnie is offline PPR * User Lists Last Activity: Today 11:17 AM

No idea what that even means

Hammyman

cola_bottle wrote: »

I don't see why not?

I repair laptops as part of my business. I've seen countless low rent ones that have had problems just after the guarantee is up. I also supply a few local shops and regularly hear stories of a customer who bought a low rent Compaq or whatever at Tesco and its packed up a year later.

Its your money and you take your choice but I'd rather have a nearly used or "open box" business class machine thats going to last years with a proper Core 2 Duo CPU, a couple of gig of RAM and a 160GB HDD than a poverty spec "Pentium Dual Core T3400/T4300" that has had 3GB of RAM in it, a large hard drive, a glossy case which gets covered in fingerprints/scratches and a glossy screen that reflects everything to cover up the fact its built down to a price and quite low spec.

cola_bottle

Hammyman wrote: »

I repair laptops as part of my business. I've seen countless low rent ones that have had problems just after the guarantee is up. I also supply a few local shops and regularly hear stories of a customer who bought a low rent Compaq or whatever at Tesco and its packed up a year later.

Its your money and you take your choice but I'd rather have a nearly used or "open box" business class machine thats going to last years with a proper Core 2 Duo CPU, a couple of gig of RAM and a 160GB HDD than a poverty spec "Pentium Dual Core T3400/T4300" that has had 3GB of RAM in it, a large hard drive, a glossy case which gets covered in fingerprints/scratches and a glossy screen that reflects everything to cover up the fact its built down to a price and quite low spec.

Don't suppose you want to find us a few of them on Ebay to look at do you , the laptop I am replacing is a Toshiba Satellite pro L40 I bought 2 and half years ago from CEX it was refurbished and the hard drive went about 2 weeks ago added to the fact it no longer holds power and the price to repair I may aswell buy myself a new/refurb hadn't I + I fancy an early Xmas present.

I don't know much about Ram, processors and hard drive size but having been on here managed to find out where to find out them details now I know I was running on Windows Vista home basic

System
2.0 Windows Experience
Processor - Genuine Intel(r) CPU -- T2130 @ 1.86GHZ 1.87GHZ
RAM - 503MB :eek:

32-bit operating System

Hard Drive Local disc(c) 26.1GB Local Disc(d) 28.3 GB

The hard drive thing I don't understand do they add both of them together I had never used (d), I know now that my RAM was complete tosh

What should I be looking for, and I am now willing to forfeit my money for getting my roots done this week and add that to my funds so now I am able to spend £350 :rotfl:

cola_bottle

Is this any good?

http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/GRADE_A1_-_Acer_Aspire_5332_Laptop_A1-LX.PGW0X.001/version.asp?PID=489

cola_bottle

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