New laptop

Rockman

Hi

My daughter who is a student is looking for a new laptop as her old Dell Inspiron has packed in after 3 years. She has about £350 max to spend. She will not be using it for gaming rather mainly for word documents and downloading music.

Can anyone advise of a good spec laptop on sale at the moment within her price range.

Thanks

bluesnake

best to keep an eye on this page

http://www.hotukdeals.com/computers/deals/hot

Snakeeyes21

Take a look at the dell outlet.
Some half decent laptops from about £200.
you wont need anything hight spec to do what your daughter wants to do.

The one at the top of the list if you search for 15" and sort by price would be more than adequate
for normal every day use..

Should be around £227 with vat and delivery
http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?rn=1107&SC=lowToHigh&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

• Inspiron 15 - N5030
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
• Processor : Intel Celeron Processor 900 (2.2Ghz, 800Mhz, 1MB)
• 320 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
• 3 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
• Optical Drive : 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
• 15.6in High Definition (1366X768) WLED
• Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
• 6 Cell Primary Battery, 48W
• LCD Cover : Glossy 3D Black
• Back Up Media Not Included

closed

how did it pack up?

Rockman

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

Take a look at the dell outlet.
Some half decent laptops from about £200.
you wont need anything hight spec to do what your daughter wants to do.

The one at the top of the list if you search for 15" and sort by price would be more than adequate
for normal every day use..

Should be around £227 with vat and delivery
http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?rn=1107&SC=lowToHigh&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

• Inspiron 15 - N5030
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
• Processor : Intel Celeron Processor 900 (2.2Ghz, 800Mhz, 1MB)
• 320 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
• 3 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
• Optical Drive : 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
• 15.6in High Definition (1366X768) WLED
• Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
• 6 Cell Primary Battery, 48W
• LCD Cover : Glossy 3D Black
• Back Up Media Not Included

Thanks-this looks the job although for some reason not working but I will try Dell site.

Rockman

closed wrote: »

how did it pack up?

Hi from what I can gather the lid appears to be broken and will not stay up. As well as that it is running very slow. I am not sure if there are other probs as she is away from home at the minute.

closed

running very slow is easily resolved by either backing up and reinstalling from factory restore partition (10 minute job), or following the speedup sticky thread. Lid may be replaceable if cosmetics are important, along with new hinge(s) if they are broken. £20 or so and it will be like new

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1147017

Snakeeyes21

Rockman wrote: »

Thanks-this looks the job although for some reason not working but I will try Dell site.

Try the link below, 2nd in the list for the one mentioned above,
they have some with 4gb ram and 500gb hard drives for a few quid more
http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?brandId=7&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1