Laptop advice please

financial_unadviser

Hi guys,

Hope there are techies out there who may be able to point me in the right direction. I am after a sub £500 laptop, mainly for internet browsing, some use of excel and a bit of word processing. Have seen the £199 offer from PC world but after reading some comments I think it is probably worth spending a bit more. Any help is much appreciated.

willyshatswig

financial_unadviser wrote:

Hi guys,

Hope there are techies out there who may be able to point me in the right direction. I am after a sub £500 laptop, mainly for internet browsing, some use of excel and a bit of word processing. Have seen the £199 offer from PC world but after reading some comments I think it is probably worth spending a bit more. Any help is much appreciated.

My advice would be not to touch the PC World £199 laptops. Go for something with a duo processor, and, at very least, 512mb in memory. Try to get one with a nice relfective screen, and make sure that it has wireless and a DVD-RW built in.
Don't go for a Dell laptop. Whilst their base unit PCs are hard-to-beat quality/price-wise, their laptops leave alot to be admired, and you can get a lot better going to places like Currys and Dixons.

If I were you, I would go for something like the Toshiba A100-147. This can be bought for £450 delivered from Currys. It is a great machine and will do pretty muchg everything that you will ever need, apart from playing graphic-heavy games.
It is also fully Windows Vista compatible, and even comes with a free offer to upgrade to Windows Vista when it is (supposedly) released in March/April '07.