New laptop-Vista Home Basic or Premium?

swizzle_2 · 23 February 2007 at 4:03PM

Hi

I want a laptop, and read that it`s best to buy 1 with Vista already on than up grade XP, is this right?

I want it for normal home stuff, surfing, odd download, photos etc.

Which is best? Basic seems to have little on it?

Have up to £500 to spend.

Thanks

rockabilly_spike · 23 February 2007 at 4:06PM

avoid home basic, its like a crippled version of XP!
we do the acer 5101 at £580 which is 2ghz/1gb ddr/120gb hd/15.4 ws/dvdrw/home prem.

you'll probs get it cheaper on the net

peterg1965 · 23 February 2007 at 4:08PM

If you are in the market for a Laptop, take a look at John Lewis. They have a £499 Toshiba satellite Laptop, with the latest Core2duo processor, 15.4TFT screen, 1Gb RAM, 60Gb hardrive, it would be great for your purposes. They are also doing an offer with a free 2 year warranty. It also has Vista Basic installed.

peterg1965 · 23 February 2007 at 4:08PM

I personally would not buy an Acer, believe me I have one. They are not built well and the customer service at Acer is awful.

rockabilly_spike · 23 February 2007 at 4:19PM

aye? we've sold tonnes of them and never had one back in 3 years of selling their machines

seaweasel · 23 February 2007 at 4:35PM

Given what you're using it for, why use Windows at all? You could try Ubuntu or another Linux distro, or you could get a decent refurb or second hand iBook for that.