laptop

beattiesman

looking for a new laptop needs to have a slot for sd card & also a dvd player have a budget of about £250 .

tronator

beattiesman wrote: »

looking for a new laptop needs to have a slot for sd card & also a dvd player have a budget of about £250 .

Is it only me, but more and more posts appear here asking "please search for me, I'm too lazy"...

This I found in 5 seconds
http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Computer/cat/Laptops?sort=price+ascending

Nada666

tronator wrote: »

Is it only me, but more and more posts appear here asking "please search for me, I'm too lazy"...

This I found in 5 seconds
http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Computer/cat/Laptops?sort=price+ascending

Rubbish.

What has 'searching' got to do with it? People want advice - they cannot tell the difference between many different processors with similar names but completely different performances. It does not matter that it takes five seconds to search when it does not matter if you stare or browse the results list for five minutes or five hours you have no idea what the differences are.

Of course, for many it does not matter which laptop they choose - for intended use anything will work. But people need advice on what is a good value laptop. A googled list of laptops is pointless (just as is a googled list of apps for some task or other.)

tronator

Nada666 wrote: »

Rubbish.

What has 'searching' got to do with it? People want advice...

Sorry, but read it again and tell me where the OP asked for advice. The one-liner didn't give that away. The OP didn't even bother to use some kind of punctuation...

Nada666 wrote: »

- they cannot tell the difference between many different processors with similar names but completely different performances.

The choice is not that big given the OP's budget.

Nada666 wrote: »

It does not matter that it takes five seconds to search when it does not matter if you stare or browse the results list for five minutes or five hours you have no idea what the differences are.

Then the first post should have included all these information. Also what the laptop will be used for would help. We're not mind readers.

baxie

http://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-aspire-es1-512-156-laptop-intel-pentium-4gb-ram-1tb-black/634-3494.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=634-3494

My Mother bought one of these, seems a decent machine, I set it up and was impressed by it. However the price has shot up from what she paid to £299.

There is however the same machine with a 500Gb drive instead of the 1Tb for £229.

Fightsback

For £250 you'll get one of these:

NiftyDigits

Take a look at Argos Outlet. Lots available, including i3 and i5 processors within budget.

Samsonite1

I would recommend Lenovo ThinkPads - they are very well built - something like this:
http://www.ebuyer.com/660261-lenovo-thinkpad-e555-laptop-20dh000tuk

HPs are also pretty good too. There are many more but those two brands offer good choice and quality.