new laptop

rexel

I am lloking to buy a new laptop and wand to spend £500-£600. I use an old desktop and want to move on. Have you any idea what i should buy. Should get something good for that money.I have went to currys how do i tell which is good or better

Mikebellows

What do you want to use it for?

punksluck

Asus K55VD-SX234H

Bough one last week. It is a solid bit of geeky laptop wizardry! I love the sleek aluminium case it's built in.

Comes with Windows 8, an Intel i5-3210M processor, 750GB hard drive and 6GB ram, more than enough for anyone who plays games or uses photoshop.

It's the best £500 I've ever spent, and I'm usually very hard to please.

I think you can get one on DABS.com for a good price. I bought mine from a local store.

Saint_Andrew

Please, give us a little Information from which you'll be using this laptop. If you're just going to browse/watch movies and do light tasks - you will not have to spend more than £350. However, if you're a gamer and use heavy processing task you'll be looking at £550 + with a decent i5 or i7 CPU.

Saint_Andrew

This is an amazing price for the specs of this machine. I've been using this for the past 3 months and it works well. Runs cool and quite, along with a good mid-range CPU. Even down to the integrated Graphics - Intel are getting better.

4GB DDR3 standard
500GB HDD respectively

£380
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Laptop-Silver/dp/B009QZCYU4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367510336&sr=8-1&keywords=acer

rexel

I will download the odd movie mostly browsing. Don't want it to be old. Hat in twelve months

grumpycrab

rexel wrote: »

Have you any idea what i should buy.

Consider that modern laptops are not as reliable as desktops and, from my experience, are less reliable than laptops used to be. Whether this is a concern is upto you. Samsung do a "buisness" laptop with a 5 year warranty.

NiftyDigits

rexel wrote: »

I am lloking to buy a new laptop and wand to spend £500-£600. I use an old desktop and want to move on. Have you any idea what i should buy. Should get something good for that money.I have went to currys how do i tell which is good or better

If you are 'moving on' from a Desktop, do you want to move on to a smaller and lower resolution screen?
Because with any of the laptops above, that is exactly what you will be doing.
You can buy a laptop designed as a Desktop replacement(larger screens), but you'll find they are relatively heavy with a relatively short battery life.

We had a recent thread covering just this subject and the best laptop at that price point to come out of it, was this SONY VAIO E17 for £499.99.

That model has a Full HD 17.3" screen coupled with dedicated graphics.

grumpycrab

NiftyDigits wrote: »

SONY VAIO E17 for £499.99.

That should be a good make. To save me looking (I had a quick look) how long's a "Standard Sony Warranty Included"?

NiftyDigits

grumpycrab wrote: »

That should be a good make. To save me looking (I had a quick look) how long's a "Standard Sony Warranty Included"?

Have no idea. You'll have to ask SONY, but it's up to two years dependent on the model.

Cisco001

With £500 - 600, you can go for intel i7

These two are the best spec I manage to find under £600
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_CX61_1356341.html
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_V3-571G_1337250.html

However, for your use, you can simply go for i7 or i5 machine with integrated GPU

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AW6ZKJI/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_C850-1H8_1346510.html