cheapest Windows 8 laptop in the UK £199

kaya

The fact that it is windows 8 would put off anybody who has used it before

KxMx

I went recently from XP to 8 and yes it was a shock and I hated it at first.

Getting used to it now though and quite like it- I don't think it's a great leap forward for OS in general- if Microsoft wanted a touch screen friendly OS it should have been aimed at touch screen devices and not computers- but it is more than use able and I think people need to give it a go, learning by using it and keeping a guide such as "For Dummies" handy.

Most of the time when I use it it's in the "like Windows 7" view anyway.

deal_finder_2

To be honest, I've always preferred windows 2003 it was so easy to use.. Why do they have to make things even more complex.. ughhh!!

bod1467

Win 2003 was only ever a server OS (AFAIK) - never a desktop OS.

Lum

Some people ran it as a desktop OS, most notably gamers, because it stripped out a lot of the fluff of XP, supposedly leading to better performance.

I have no idea how much better the performance was, but I'm sure for the price of server 2003 vs XP you could have bought a faster graphics card or something.

MandyAW92

Win8 is a problem but other than that the device looks OK for £199

NiftyDigits

MandyAW92 wrote: »

Win8 is a problem but other than that the device looks OK for £199

Perhaps you can explain why you think it's OK for £200.
I happen to disagree, especially when you can pick up a fully fledged laptop for £230 these days.

MandyAW92

I think it's OK beause the Lenovo comes with everything a casual user would need in a laptop. It also doesn't come doesn't have a terrible or a brilliant price. I suppose what i should have said is average not OK

Nada666

Lum wrote: »

Netbooks are not laptops!

I'm really getting sick of people buying them and expecting them to be a perfectly usable laptop that can do everything a proper laptop can, mainly because the biggest offender is my bosses boss who then has a moan at me when it's slow to compile a gigantic visual studio project and takes ages to encode videos.

(Ignoring the spam nature of the OP's posting behaviour...)

A netbook is more a laptop than a laptop is a machine suitable for anyone needing to compile or encode, surely?

For ninety percent of users all is needed is a browser and decoding video. I think the machine is definitely a laptop.

Screen resolution is fine (it's all you get sub £800 nowadays). I would rather a 12" machine with a 768 screen than buy a 15" machine with a only a 768 screen.

Graphics chip is fine (6310 decodes 720p and streams 720p)

It is, of course, last generation (or even two) but at £200 is fine - I'd rather pay £200 (or £280 or £320 new) and be surprised by how much I can do than bump my price up to £400 and end up disappointed by what I can't do.

Nada666

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Perhaps you can explain why you think it's OK for £200.
I happen to disagree, especially when you can pick up a fully fledged laptop for £230 these days.

Really? In what way? Are you really saying you can buy a laptop with an IPS 1680x1050 screen and separate graphics chip for £230?

I'd love to see what your idea of 'fully-fledged' is.