laptop under 299.99

chib

How about this for £200 delivered? It's refurbished, but will be boxed like brand new and have a full years warranty. A big improvement over the Celeron/2GB RAM efforts.

Dell Inspiron 15 - 3521
Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-3217U (3M Cache, 1.8 GHz, UMA)
Windows® 8.1 (Free upgrade to 10)
4 GB Memory (1x4GB Dual Rank RDIMMs) 1600 MHz
500 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
8X DVD+/- RW Drive
15.6in HD (1366X768) WLED with TrueLife
Dell Wireless-N 1705 + Bluetooth 4.0



http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&puid=55eee4ea

catoutthebag

Looks alright but want to go 13 inch

Anymore ideas otherwise already the Acer from tesco in an hour

Leo2020

Fightsback wrote: »

Yes you can, wager.

My mistake looks like their is a version now - someone is using the opensource code to make money. Looking at the reviews you have to pay to save any images you make, lots of negative reviews so looks like the OP will still be better using an alternative.

Fightsback

Leo2020 wrote: »

My mistake looks like their is a version now - someone is using the opensource code to make money. Looking at the reviews you have to pay to save any images you make, lots of negative reviews so looks like the OP will still be better using an alternative.

Are you aware that you can run an alternative Linux on a chromebook (ChromeOS is Linux based anyway) and thus GIMP ?

No unpleasant third parties required.

catoutthebag

catoutthebag wrote: »

Just found potential winner

http://www.tesco.com/direct/acer-aspire-es1-311-133-laptop-intel-celeron-4gb-ram-1tb-black/426-2535.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=426-2535

WINNING

I bought this. 4gb ram, 1tb dual core. Good price and reviews. I don't think I need or can afford i3 processor - the refurbishment one you linked to disappeared.

So do all windows users upgrade to win 10? Free?.😨 no idea how it works since this will be 8.1

[Deleted User]

Hi,

yes you will get a free upgrade, there are a few threads about Win10 on this forum, have a look.

Leo2020

Fightsback wrote: »

Are you aware that you can run an alternative Linux on a chromebook (ChromeOS is Linux based anyway) and thus GIMP ?

No unpleasant third parties required.

Well I suppose if the OP wanted to run an alternative system they could but I didn't get the impression that they wanted to.

Many people are happy to stick with Windows and I can't blame them as it general works and it is easier to get support with it.

I've run Ubuntu before and I had to do a bit of playing around with it to get it to do what I wanted (some things were simpler in Windows - although this may have changed as it has been sometime since I used a version of Linux). If something goes wrong with a PC running Windows then chances are you can find someone to help you, if running Linux you will find it harder to get assistance.

Anyway the OP has now chosen a laptop running Windows so they are free to use Gimp without changing to Linux.