Advice on the best place to buy a new laptop?

hoyles10

Hi Techies.. I'm looking for the best place to buy a new laptop from. I've got about £500 to spend and all we'll use it for is to surf the internet and mess about on sites like facebook and play the odd few flash player games.

Any advice peeps??

jaydeeuk1

Theres a thread on here someone made recently which lists all the best places. Have a search.

olias

TBH, I always find the best policy is to look in some of the main shops or look at reccomendations from review sites and forums, then when I have decided what I want, search all the shopbots to find who is offering it cheapest and then just get it there.

Olias

closed

The best place is the cheapest, you need to decide on the laptop first. A bottom of the range laptop will do what you want, so you could cut £150-200 off that budget. Decide on the screen size for starters.

aliEnRIK

closed wrote: »

A bottom of the range laptop will do what you want, so you could cut £150-200 off that budget.

My thoughts exactly

John_3:16

Argos Ebay!

[Deleted User]

olias wrote: »

TBH, I always find the best policy is to look in some of the main shops or look at reccomendations from review sites and forums, then when I have decided what I want, search all the shopbots to find who is offering it cheapest and then just get it there.

Olias

That's me

List of sites to check for laptop bargains

What about this laptop:

TOSHIBA C650-1CN 15.6IN LAPTOP REFURB
£284.99 + £3.99 P&P
Intel Celeron dual core T3300.
2GHz processor speed.
2GB DDR3 RAM memory.
250GB SATA hard drive.
15.6in display.
Intel GMA with 4500M graphics card.
Microsoft Windows 7 Premium.
Weight 2.5kg

Looks to fit the intended purpose.

Or if you don't want a refurbished machine and you'd prefer something a bit newer then how about:

Dell Inspiron 5010
£428.99
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
i3-350M (2.26Ghz, 4Threads, 3M cache)
15.6" High Definition (1366x768) WLED
3072MB RAM
250GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD
Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Word Starter, Excel Starter)

dispossessed

Often Tescos, sometimes ADSA, occasionally (when they have them in) ALDI.

Trevor

macman

Almost anywhere but PCW/DSG...