Best laptop sub £900

benjammin

Two questions, what are the best laptops sub £900. And where is the best place to buy it?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=84822 £834.98

this looks good, but I'm not willing to buy from ebuyer.
this IBM also is impressive javascript:winpop('ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=17480&specialStatus=1')
but only intel extreme graphics.

Are dell recommended? I'm always hearing mixed reviews, but apparently their warranties are good and you have better aftersales assurance.

I'm very concerned about buying a laptop from certain websites because of the aftersales. whereas i wouldnt be concerned about something cheaper, with a laptop i want decent aftersales

I'm after a centrino laptop... i'm not too bothered about how much ram as you can upgrade it, im more concerned about the speed of it. preferably ddr2, but 400mhz speed ram at least.

Toxteth_OGrady

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TOG

margaret_3

benjammin wrote:

Two questions, what are the best laptops sub £900. And where is the best place to buy it?



Are dell recommended? I'm always hearing mixed reviews, but apparently their warranties are good and you have better aftersales assurance.

I'm very concerned about buying a laptop from certain websites because of the aftersales. whereas i wouldnt be concerned about something cheaper, with a laptop i want decent aftersales





I must warn you about Dell. Their after sales service is dreadful. I have an extended next day on-site guarantee but the two times that I've needed them, it has taken at least three weeks for them to honour the guarantee and send someone out. They expect the customer to investigate the problem and then get back to them and this goes on and on.
Although my guarantee has another six months to run, I got fed up with Dell and have bought myself a Fujitsu and I'm delighted.
A colleague had a Dell PC and when he had a problem they treated him in the same way, in fact worse. They kept him hanging on for so long that when he reported back to them on the latest result, they said ----sorry but you're out of guarantee, even though it was their fault.
Do keep away from them.
I hope this helps.
Margaret

HLK

I would also recommend Fujitsu...

try http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=FJSYA047ZV

for the AMILO M1425 - £804 or a few punds cheaper at https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk

helen21_2

Hi there

have a look at toys r us, i purchased the one for £799 and am very pleased

SPEC-
Intel Centrino Pentium M 1.7GHz & 2MB L2 cache (400MHz FSB)
512MB FAST DDR RAM
80GB hard disk drive
Hard drive speed 4200 RPM
56K V.90 Data/Fax/Modem
Wireless LAN 802.11g
DVD Re-Writer, CD Re-Writer & DVD ROM (SUPER COMBO) (+/-)
15” XGA TFT Screen
LCD Screen Resolution 1024x768
Integrated ATI Radeon 9650 Graphics with 64MB Shared DDR RAM
2 channel digital Audio Out/ 6 channel Analogue Out (On Board)
3 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x Firewire/Mini DV (IEEE 1394), 1 x VGA monitor out, 1 x modem (RJ11), 1 x LAN (RJ45), 1 x PCMCIA SLOT, 1 x headphone out, 1 x microphone in plus 7-in-2 digital card readers – Multimedia, Secure Digital, Memory Stick/Pro, Compactflash I & II & Microdrive
Weighs 3.2kg inc. battery
Up to 4 hours battery life
Microsoft XP Home Edition, Medion Home Cinema Suite, Nero CD/DVD Burning Software , Microsoft Works Suite 2005 including Word, Encarta 2005, Money, Photo Premium 10, Autoroute 2005 plus Works 8 including Spreadsheet, Database, Calendar, E-Mail, Internet Tools and My Organiser plus Etrust Anti Virus

Toxteth_OGrady

Hellooooooooooo

All take a look at the first sticky at the top of the page in this board

The Great Cheapest Decent Laptop Hunt

There's 24 pages of top advice you can plough through.

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TOG

benjammin

i've been through that thread. half of it is months out of date!!
thanks fo the useful replies.

acupples

To be controversial...
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Andrew

Kazza242

I must warn you about Dell. Their after sales service is dreadful. I have an extended next day on-site guarantee but the two times that I've needed them, it has taken at least three weeks for them to honour the guarantee and send someone out. They expect the customer to investigate the problem and then get back to them and this goes on and on.
Although my guarantee has another six months to run, I got fed up with Dell and have bought myself a Fujitsu and I'm delighted.
A colleague had a Dell PC and when he had a problem they treated him in the same way, in fact worse. They kept him hanging on for so long that when he reported back to them on the latest result, they said ----sorry but you're out of guarantee, even though it was their fault.
Do keep away from them.
I hope this helps.
Margaret

I'm surprised you've received such shoddy service from Dell. I've dealt with them frequently over the last 3 years, as my company purchases all computers from them and I have a Dell home PC. From my experience, they have always been very good with their after sales support, expecially if you have the next-day business service. In fact, one of the people I support (as I work in IT) ran into problems with her Dell laptop modem on holiday in Devon. Dell took the address from me and sent an engineer to her hotel the next day.

I think the quality of the support you receive may depend on the support centre your call is routed through to. I usually deal with the Dell centre, based in Ireland, who are superb.

margaret_3

I was interested to read of your experiences Kazza.
I've had two technicians out to me---sent by Dell but not Dell employees----and they both said that they got lots of complaints about Dell' poor customer support.
I paid £221 or thereabouts for the next day on-site guarantee but they NEVER honoured that even though I threatened them with court action.
I ran away from them!

Kazza242

Margaret - I don't blame you. I would do the same if I were treated like that. I know it's off topic, but one of the worst for customer support is HP/Compaq. They deliver absolutely diabolical customer support in my experience and that of my colleagues. It takes them 4 weeks to deliver a replacement part and then they deliver the wrong one! This happens all the time, so my company will be taking their business elsewhere.