advice on laptops

scotty1971

i'm looking to spend around £200 on a laptop for my 10 year old,has anyone got any recommendations on a half decent one.

cheers

scott

robmar0se

I think you will be looking for either a netbook for that price, or a refurbed laptop. If the latter the Dell D620 is available at £199 here (not a bad spec either).
http://www.thelaptopcentre.co.uk/cheap-refurbished-laptops.html?gclid=CKWh7ZfAjqsCFeMJtAodI1gtvg

scotty1971

that looks quite good,are they a good company to buy off?,the only thing that worries me is that it is for xmas and if i buy it just now a good part of the warranty would have ran out

robmar0se

scotty1971 wrote: »

that looks quite good,are they a good company to buy off?,the only thing that worries me is that it is for xmas and if i buy it just now a good part of the warranty would have ran out

Currys usually have a few on offer, in fact most of the time as far as I can see, they usually have the standard 12 month warranty which you can exyend for a fee - see
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/refurbished-laptops/315_3227_30329_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html

schtee

If it's for Christmas and you can wait, why not keep an eye out for the special offers on the big technology sites. £200 seems to be the starting price for basic laptops these days. PC World had one for £179 the other week!

scotty1971

managed to stretch the budget to £250,what people think of this one

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/GRADE_A1_-_Acer_Aspire_5332_Laptop_A1-LX.PGW0X.002/version.asp

cheers

scott

TakeThis

scotty1971 wrote: »

managed to stretch the budget to £250,what people think of this one

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/GRADE_A1_-_Acer_Aspire_5332_Laptop_A1-LX.PGW0X.002/version.asp

cheers

scott

NO! :eek:

TakeThis

If you really can't wait, you can consider this Toshiba Satellite C660-17J @ £229.

Satellite C660-17J Specs

bruticus

robmar0se wrote: »

I think you will be looking for either a netbook for that price, or a refurbed laptop. If the latter the Dell D620 is available at £199 here (not a bad spec either).
http://www.thelaptopcentre.co.uk/cheap-refurbished-laptops.html?gclid=CKWh7ZfAjqsCFeMJtAodI1gtvg

The D620 is about 3-4 years old now, if they have a sellers warranty then fair enough, but itll be one year max, but I wouldn't trust it to last more than a year or two if that, I definately wouldn't pay £200 for one.

My opinion is to watch ebays deals of the day, they tend to have a lot of Acers crop up, although you'll be lucky to get anything other than a netbook for the price, and most netbooks at that price are pretty much the same spec, so as long as it's a decent brand, you cant go wrong.

GunJack

that tosh has a better spec than any of my machines......should last him for years

scotty1971

will just have to keep looking then