Cheap laptop recommendations?

truescot

There used to be a "Best Budget Laptop" thread but it is now well out of date so hoping for a bit of advice.

My old Toshiba laptop (bought refurbished 5 years ago), has eventually got to the end of its natural life and I need a new one. I am not a heavy user and my prevous machine was basic spec but fine if it hadn't just died on me. I need a laptop for browsing, online banking etc and I also use word and excel along with powerpoint for lecture presentations. My itunes is also stored on there, and I would prefer a machine with CD/DVD drive. And thats it.

To give an idea, I looked at this today but it was out of stock in my local store.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-notebook-15-g260sa-15-6-laptop-red-10107474-pdt.html

Any words of wisdom greatly appreciated...

20aday

My Mum got this laptop earlier on in the year:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-es1-512-15-6-laptop-black-10124040-pdt.html

I'm not sure if you'd prefer a stronger processor but it's more than ample for what you plan to do with your laptop and for a Celeron chip it performs quite well.

deskhelp

yes Acer laptops are cheap and reliable got a couple in office and they are just working great.

carsong

Cheap laptops are really great in condition and as well as they are tested and reliable. I am also using cheap laptop . Try to buy from reliable source
Electrocomputerwarehouse

grumpycrab

Good value cheap laptop here (CPU benchmark 3000). Should be fine for browsing, emails. Office should be ok (do you have a license already) but running one program at a time would be a good idea.
http://www.medion.com/gb/shop/medion-akoya-computers-medion-akoya-e6237-15-6-laptop-md99018-30018077a1.html?wt_mc=gb.intern.StdProducts.welcome.on-ma&wt_cc1=10_1&wt_cc3=DEAL%20OF%20THE%20DAY
How big's your itunes library? The disk with this is only 500GB.

This has a DVD drive and VGA+HDMI out.

Similar in spec to that PC World HP (both much better than that horrible Acer.)

AndyPix

grumpycrab wrote: »

The disk with this is only 500GB.

Haha , imagine hearing that said 20 years ago !!

I remember all crowding around the rich kids desktop and "oohing and aaaahing" at his MASSIVE 20mb hard drive !!

How times have changed

GunJack

grumpycrab wrote: »

Good value cheap laptop here (CPU benchmark 3000). Should be fine for browsing, emails. Office should be ok (do you have a license already) but running one program at a time would be a good idea.
http://www.medion.com/gb/shop/medion-akoya-computers-medion-akoya-e6237-15-6-laptop-md99018-30018077a1.html?wt_mc=gb.intern.StdProducts.welcome.on-ma&wt_cc1=10_1&wt_cc3=DEAL%20OF%20THE%20DAY
How big's your itunes library? The disk with this is only 500GB.

This has a DVD drive and VGA+HDMI out.

Similar in spec to that PC World HP (both much better than that horrible Acer.

that's pretty good value

chillsky

I picked up this laptop at tesco for £129
http://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-aspire-es1-111m-116-laptop-intel-celeron-2gb-ram-32gb-ssd-black/336-9409.prd

Currently at £149 still a bargin - buy a 128GB SD card and stick it in , map it to a drive and your sorted for software installs etc.

ClarkeKent

I have always bought cheap laptops at the bottom end of the market and they have always performed fine, branded like HP, Acer and Dell. Just not worth spending over £200-£300 nowadays.

You can't go wrong with this below
http://www.ebuyer.com/669147-hp-255-g3-quad-core-laptop-k7h92es-abu

Great for surfing, docs and the rest and it is only one of a few that doesn't come with those awful mirrored glass style screens. Your tech types will see not enough power etc, but I use mine loads and with video etc. Works great.

Free upgrade to Windows 10 next month like they all will plus these look really smart. Absolute bargain