recommendation for laptop? budget £500

gtothec

Hi guys,

My poor Dell Inspiron 9400 is exhausted, wheezing and breaking down randomly so I'm going to buy another laptop.

Have spent a bit of time searching t'internet but am confused.com

I appreciate there is a sub £350 thread here but I can stretch a little bit further. Can anyone give me some suggestions?

I basically want a smaller unit, 14" would be perfect as I carry it about a fair bit. For working from home, windows 7. As powerful as possible for £500.

Can anyone recommend anything? Any brands that are generally good / bad?

Thanks!:money:

yummy.scrummy.mummy

if you want power then in your price range an i3 would be just about reachable.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/241605
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/195974 (currently reduced)

both of these have i3's but the screen sizes are maybe a bit too big for you.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/195968 this one is also ok if you want more memory and it comes with free internet security HTH

closed

exhausted and wheezing, meaning slow? If so, backup your data and reinstall windows from the recovery partition

gtothec

Hi there, thanks for the replies.

Closed - The laptop is a fair age (about 5 or 6 years). We've had to replace the battery and the power cable in that time. We've also bought an external hard drive and moved everything onto it and then rebooted the system as you suggested, but it still shuts down at random etc - I think its dead!

yummy-mummy, thanks for the suggestions. They are a bit big as you say, but are along the right lines.

I've seen a few on amazon with larger memory. Can anyone advise on the best one of these two? I know that I want the largest amount of storage which i think is what the figure 500GB refers to, and then I think the 4gb ram means it will process things quicker, but I don't know what the other numbers and spec mean.

HP Pavillion http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pavilion-dm3-1105ea-13-3-inch-Processor-LightScribe/dp/B0034G5G8S/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1290333943&sr=1-3

HP Pavillion http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pavilion-DM3-2110SA-Notebook-Bluetooth-Windows/dp/B00440D946/ref=sr_1_4?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1290334032&sr=1-4

closed

If you've moved your only copy of important data to an external drive, consider the consequences of what happens if that drive fails. Shut's down at random?