2nd hand laptop, worth it or not?

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jim_royle wrote: »

These aren't particulary good specs for the price either - Link

The easy place to get your first, very affordable and internet ready computer

Laptop Computer

£199 Available to anyone!

£169 Available to people receiving certain benefits and to charities.

Now this is utter crap at the price.

Laptop: Single core Celeron processor, 1Gb RAM, 40Gb HDD. Maybe an hour battery life. For £169 to £199??

PC: Pentium 4(?), 1GB RAM, 40 GB HDD, 15" Monitor. £99 to £149.

30 day warranty...

Sorry but this is just old hat, that should be knocked out at half the price at the most.

What are they thinking?

On the front page it suggests that the laptop will look similar to this:



Though once you click through to purchase, you get this:



Huh? What happened? Bait and Switch?

Same with the PC.

From this:

to



Dodgy.

TakeThis

khampson wrote: »

Ok thanks for that, I don't mind spending £300 plus if someone can point me out a decent laptop for the extra cash, I don't understand computer setups although I have no trouble operating them, so ok I will push my budget to 300 to 400, please suggest a good laptop for me please

There is a specific thread for sub £350 laptops here. Seek it out.

Browntoa

2nd the above, someones elderly 2nd hand tat , probably find the same for £40 on Ebay !!

khampson

What about this 1?

http://www.laskys.com/computing/laptops_and_pdas/laptops/fujitsu_lifebook_ah531__211847.html

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ACER Aspire AS5749-2334G75Mikk £249.99 from Argos Outlet.

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium
- Intel Core i3 (i3 - 2330M, 2.20 GHz, 3 MB) -
HD 3000 Graphics
39.6 cm (15.6") LED - 16:9 WXGA - Active Matrix TFT Colour LCD - CineCrystal -
4 GB DDR3 SDRAM -
750 GB Serial ATA -
DVD-Super Multi DL drive -
1.3MP webcam -
Maximum Battery Run Time 4.50 Hour -
1yr Warranty C&R -
HDMI Port,
multi-in-1 card reader (Secure Digital™ (SD) Card, MultiMediaCard™ (MMC)),
McAfee Internet Security Suite Trial,
Microsoft® Office Starter 2010

stardak

You can get laptops on dell now for like £3.17p : )