I wanna laptop under £400

brassmonkey001

I want to get a laptop for under £400 with a dvd burner and wireless internet. I don't think I want a particularly large hard drive, probably 20gb would suffice at this time, I'll probably get an external hard drive if I need more.
I don't play games, but would like a sufficiently powerful machine for usual internetting stuff, photography jiggery pokery and to not become old hat to soon.
What do you recommend?

Little_John

If you intend manipulateing photos than you need somthing with a little more ompf than the bagain bin £350 celeron jobbies. drive space isnt expensive anymore, back in the days what a 40gb laptop drive would cost you a small fortune have gone and 100gb+ drives are about £70 it is the memory and processor that bump the price up.

You need plenty of memory and a pentium/centrino/turion based CPU opposed to celeron and sempron. speed isnt really an issue when it comes to laptops but the type of processor does. dual core isnt really required but if you decide yuo want to spend even more then go for it dual core laptops can be got for about £500 now anyway.

Have a look round pcworld and the likes see what is out there, then return home with your ideas and search for the best prices you can with one of the shop bots like kelkoo etc.

jozvaldo

I've just brought one of these from currys - gives you everything you need and some. Great bit of kit for £449!!!!!!

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1070516462.1168721294@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccjaddjlheimidcflgceggdhhmdfhk.0&page=Product&fm=1&sm=0&tm=0&sku=207515&category_oid=-27405

Little_John

loads of ram but a celeron cpu

tripled

ebuyer.com and dabs.com have some cheap deals, and if you go through quidco you can earn cashback too.

Kilty_2

Little_John wrote:

If you intend manipulateing photos than you need somthing with a little more ompf than the bagain bin £350 celeron jobbies. drive space isnt expensive anymore, back in the days what a 40gb laptop drive would cost you a small fortune have gone and 100gb+ drives are about £70 it is the memory and processor that bump the price up.

So why does my "bargain bin £350 celeron jobby" comfortably edit video as well as photos?

I mean using real software too.

Of course I upgraded the RAM to 768mb and reinstalled windows but the rest is as it was when it shipped

yescubedesign

Dell do an Inspiron 1300 for £399 which is what i use (The battery only lasts for about an hour and half though) Other than that its a good little worker

Little_John

Kilty wrote:

So why does my "bargain bin £350 celeron jobby" comfortably edit video as well as photos?

I mean using real software too.

Of course I upgraded the RAM to 768mb and reinstalled windows but the rest is as it was when it shipped

You compensated for the celeron procesor by upgrading the memory. :T A core duo/core solo/pentium will do things better with less memory.

A celeron based pc will run the likes of 3d studio max, auto cad photshop all big hungry programs, they run alot better on a cpu with plenty of L2 cache which is what the celleron is missing.