I want a cheap laptop

Pete.g

Now all I know about pc's and specs is that I turn it on and away I go.

I am after a laptop to use wirelessly so while the mrs is watching her soaps I dont have to sit the other end of the house to be on the pc.

I've had a look on ebay but to be honest it all goes str8 over my head I dont want to be spending a fortune as litterally all i'll be doing is surfing the net. No gaming ect.

Can anyone recommend a laptop in the £2-300 price range that will do the job. Or indeed anyone selling one?

Thanks,

Pete.

Fonz_2

From what I remember PC world are doing a pretty well specced laptop for £349 at the moment with Vista home premium and 1gb of ram - seems like a bargain

Pete.g

do they? Didnt want to go in there and get fobbed off with something that I dont really need.

Fonz_2

Here it is...

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1571160108.1178538487@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccehaddklidgfelcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=519892&category_oid=-27751

(hopefully that link works!)

If you reserve online, print out the voucher for free 512mb extra RAM and take it into the store it comes in at £349 with 1GB of RAM

Spec probably won't play the very latest shoot em up games but is more than needed for web/email/etc

Donnie

If it's really only for surfing the Internet. It might be just work picking up a second hand model for £100 or so.

There's lots of them here in Thailand. Only Windows 98SE/Millenium/2000 Pro for that price.

Aiadi

Pete.g wrote: »

Now all I know about pc's and specs is that I turn it on and away I go.

I am after a laptop to use wirelessly so while the mrs is watching her soaps I dont have to sit the other end of the house to be on the pc.

I've had a look on ebay but to be honest it all goes str8 over my head I dont want to be spending a fortune as litterally all i'll be doing is surfing the net. No gaming ect.

Can anyone recommend a laptop in the £2-300 price range that will do the job. Or indeed anyone selling one?

Thanks,

Pete.

Check this one out. I think it is excellent value for money:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/125319

Or here:
http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/index~modelcode~TOS-L30-113.htm

You could also get £10 back if you go through google checkout.

Hope this helps.

Tallymanjohn

PCWorld have a Compaq for £399 (being heavily advertised on TV) - bought one a couple of days ago & can't really fault it for the price. It's the cheapest one I could find with both dual core and Vista Premium. You'll find most laptops are wireless these days. Only possible complaint I have is that there are no memory slots free so you're stuck with 1Gb (which Vista needs) unless you 'throw away' a memory chip.

Pete.g

Thanks all for the input there is certainly a few to look at there.

Pete.

ellybelly89

my gf just bought the compaq she loves it. i bought the 17in acer from pc world 2 months ago. cant fault it apart from vista driver errors but thats not the laptops fault!