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laptop for £300
leoniestacy
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Hiya has any seen any good laptops for around £300 mainly for internet, word docs, and a few downloads
Many thanks
Many thanks
£2014 in 2014 challenge v-£30 c-£176.23 £201.23/£2014
cs-£46.51 ms-£40 slp-14.32 sb-£30 TCB -£35 gm-£30 dy-£50
cs-£46.51 ms-£40 slp-14.32 sb-£30 TCB -£35 gm-£30 dy-£50
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Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
I think I'd rather pay the extra £60 to get the i3 rather than put up with a castrated CPU, and Medion don't even get a mention in the reliability stakes
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it0 -
Quiet_Spark wrote: »I think I'd rather pay the extra £60 to get the i3 rather than put up with a castrated CPU, and Medion don't even get a mention in the reliability stakes
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/
It's out of stock anyway.
Medion are under the Lenovo umbrella now.0 -
Yup - and even before Lenovo their kit was always well screwed together (aldi sold their stuff instore, felt better than most Acers). The celeron is plenty powerful enough for what the OP wants. By all means, get an i3, but I doubt you'd notice any difference if you're just watching youtube clips, printing documents and downloading mp3s etc. That (£70 by the way) could be put towards something else, like a decent pair of headphones.
Look out for refurbs on argos ebay, wife got a HP core i5 ivy bridge laptop for £260 back in May/June, came looking brand new.0 -
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1079920.htm
hdmi, usb3.0, webcam £300, dvd writer.0 -
need a portable one, ie light, in that price range, welcome suggestions. thanks. 13/14" pls.0
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Medion sell direct, including refurbs. I bought mine (17" with i5) , reduced as it was an older model (Windows 7, which I wanted anyway), with £50 off during a promotion plus £16+ from Top Cashback (though they were slow at paying the latter).
Customer service is good and as I complained that the description of my model was incorrect (due to translation and changing website problems), I got an extra £30 on top of the above savings.0 -
I would go for Acer if it was really about economics. You can get quite nice specifications for the value with Acer. Asus is good and not that expensive but it's also not that cheap as well, but yes, it's quality. I think personally I would just find something I like and then I would search for a nice deal.0
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