Decent basic laptop under £200 - is there one?

RussJK

stilltheone wrote: »

Hey! What are you saying?? My CPU Benchmark figure: 396 That is for my main PC.

Is that the AMD Athlon "Proswssor" [sic] or a Celeron?

stilltheone

RussJK wrote: »

Is that the AMD Athlon "Proswssor" [sic] or a Celeron?

It's a link...you can see for yourself.

Does everything that I need. Running Windows 7 Ultimate on 1.5GB RAM. Watch films in 1080p.
Added an ASUS HD4350HD 512MB graphics card. Cost around £25.

My laptop has much better specs, but I don't use it. It's still in the box.

Hammyman

Spiritseeker wrote: »

I know sub £200 is not easy to find - I haven't found any which has a 15.4" screen myself. Am I just looking for too much for too little?

thanks in advance

Yes. As I'm selling 4 year old ones for £11 short of that, you've got little chance of getting new.

The laptop will literally just be for browsing the net, checking emails, social sites etc. No gaming planned, not much software to be installed - probably just drivers for a printer, adobe, MS office etc. The very basics!

The lowest price laptops I sell for £109.99 can do that. Hard drives aren't big at 40GB but you can add 1 Terabyte external USB storage if you need it for under £50 and most people wouldn't come close to using the 30GB free space on the one I mentioned anyway. The ones I sell are in near mint condition and cost over £1k when they were new, being corporate spec ones, not retail tat.

I'd give you a link to a BIN but I'm not allowed to

buglawton

Hammyman, why don't you add a link to your Public Profile? AFAIK links to business sites ate ok there, or say a link to your Facebook page that itself has a link to....

Hammyman

There's a thought.....all I need now is some stock as I'm down to my last two laptops again.

KillerWatt

You won't get that spec new for anywhere near your budget,but I can let you have a Toshiba Satellite A210-11K for £150 with Win 7 Ultimate (32 bit) which meets all your requirements and more besides.

RussJK

stilltheone wrote: »

It's a link...you can see for yourself.

Does everything that I need. Running Windows 7 Ultimate on 1.5GB RAM. Watch films in 1080p.
Added an ASUS HD4350HD 512MB graphics card. Cost around £25.

My laptop has much better specs, but I don't use it. It's still in the box.

Not bad. Most techie types I know also run older hardware as their main machine, often with XP. Compare this to an IT guy I know who told me sagely that a computer needs "at least 4gb memory, but 8gb is better" (!), and of course buys the latest and greatest...

Your main one sounds roughly like the specs of the 12" netbook I use a lot, although mine's underclocked a bit.

stilltheone

Bought it along with printer and monitor for £250 four years ago. When it conks out I'll buy a new one.

Did have an XP machine with a AMD Duron for testing purposes, but I'm letting it go.

Hammyman

KillerWatt wrote: »

£150 with Win 7 Ultimate (32 bit) which meets all your requirements and more besides.

Is that a legitimate licenced version? :p

buglawton

I could not see any such £150 price on visiting that Toshiba link. I suppose OP is looking for something that is really purchasable today.