want to buy a laptop

xiao_jiang

I'm a third year student ，now I want to buy a Laptop computer, but who knows what brand of good performance. (about 500 pound )

retepetsir

What will you mainly use it for? Just word processing, music, internet, or games, etc too?

For £500 you should have quite a good selection to choose from.

This is a very good deal and from a very good make:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119876/rb/24497684020

Toshiba Satellite Pro Laptop:

- Intel Core Duo (one of the best processors currently available)
- 512mb Ram (decent amount)
- 60GB Hard Drive (good size for the price)
- 15.4" Widescreen
- Wireless Network
- Windows XP Professional
- DVDRW for backups, etc



For £46 more (but out of your budget) you can get the latest processor (Core 2 Duo) and double the storage space (120GB) plus Windows Media Center with a free upgrade for Windows Vista Premium (worth around £200), link is here if interested:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120022

Sherbetlover

I think that's the laptop I have, but with a 30GB harddrive. I paid £1200 for it three years ago though! Runs well but no wireless card so check that if you need one. Good luck with the search.

lauranurse

Dell are usually quite good, especially of they are running any special offers

Idiophreak

If you don't need anything with any power (games/graphics/compiling lots of code), I can recommend the acer lappy I just got. Is just short of £400 on ebuyer, but is £373 on tesco (plus clubcard points).

It's got widescreen 14" screen, 512mb ram (the only thing that lets it down), 60gb hard drive, dvd writer, wifi, usb2, all the usual bits and bobs.
Has media center edition (good for music/vids) and an upgrade voucher to vista home premium.

If you don't need any more power, I'd get one of those and drink the spare £100.

byb3

check out the grabbit while you can board for 0-day laptop offers, they are usually a bargain. Dell are usually the best place to go, and if you go through https://www.quidco.co.uk you usually get another £20 off. Also I recommend to most people whether they really need a laptop over a desktop as most don't, they are much more likely to be stolen and the number of people I know who buy a laptop and never take it out their room never mind the house, what a waste of money!
Desktops far cheaper for the performance, and are very tiny these days.

Good Luck

colin79666

HOLD OFF!

wait until February - Vista will be out then, right now a lot of companies are offering Vista upgrades but you often have to pay a handling fee and send off bits of paperwork which is a real hassle. Come February new laptops will start coming preloaded with Vista.

I'd recommend Acer - got mine from Tesco about 18 months ago for under £500 - still works a charm for all my uni needs (including java programming, flash etc). Came with 256mb ram but it was easy to upgrade.

xiao_jiang

Thanks for that

xiao_jiang

retepetsir wrote:

What will you mainly use it for? Just word processing, music, internet, or games, etc too?

For £500 you should have quite a good selection to choose from.

This is a very good deal and from a very good make:

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Thank you very much,I think it is very suitable me.