Good second hand/ refurb laptop ? around £300 budget

kobracai

Fightsback wrote: »

Very (i.e. the Littlewoods group) give 12 month free interest but make sure you pay it off within the period as it's nearly 40% APR after that time. Have a look around for more interest free places.

Cheers Fightsback, very useful

yes, 12 months to pay back that sum is MORE than enough

I do like Currys though as they have physical shops and I handed the laptop in to repair under warranty in the past. I just prefer physical shops in case there's any trouble you can just pop in (or am I just being baised / old fashioned?)

Thinking back though, I had this laptop for roughly 18 months and bought from Currys and I had to take in to repair quite a few times (all under warranty though, except this one time now)

JP08

For the short term, if your stuff is just the basics (I'm guessing mainly internet, word processor, spreadsheet ?) and cash is really short, then picking up any old second hand laptop capable of running XP and slapping a copy of Linux on it would get you out of trouble. Eg the discussion on this thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5391924

At a pinch you can get Microsoft office going, though on an old machine, running under Wine on Linux it isn't a ball of fire. For more basic docs, etc, LibreOffice will suffice.

kobracai

Has anyone got experience with this site? they also have a finance option for this laptop, seems a bit too good to be true

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/J4T67EAABU-HP-250-G3_1685371.html

NiftyDigits

If no money, buy what you can afford.

Latitude E5420m £58.80 plus postage.

Fightsback

NiftyDigits wrote: »

If no money, buy what you can afford.

Latitude E5420m £58.80 plus postage.

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 2.2GHz
Memory 2Gb
Hard Drive 250Gb
Video Intel HD 3000*

*Amazing, time travelling graphics.

Fightsback

kobracai wrote: »

Has anyone got experience with this site? they also have a finance option for this laptop, seems a bit too good to be true

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/J4T67EAABU-HP-250-G3_1685371.html

Finance price from them on that on their 5 months deal:

£272.95

So cost of finance is £13 which is cheaper than curry's £25.

poppasmurf_bewdley

Argos on eBay have an excellent selection of new and refurbished laptops at bargain prices. Many are returns or end of line models.

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Argos?aspectFilter=%7B%7D&sortOrder=BestMatch&inCategory=175672

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http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Browse/ID72/33372853/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CTechnology%7C33006169/c_2/2%7C33006169%7CClearance+Technology%7C33372652/c_3/3%7Ccat_33372652%7CLaptops+and+PCs%7C33372853.htm

henm2

This refurbed Thinkpad X200 at £183 should do the job. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WINDOWS-7-Lenovo-Thinkpad-X200-Tablet-Laptop-Core-2-Duo-Warranty-CHEAP-Webcam-/370916356683

NiftyDigits

Fightsback wrote: »

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T6670 2.2GHz
Memory 2Gb
Hard Drive 250Gb
Video Intel HD 3000*

*Amazing, time travelling graphics.

Definitely Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD

At around £60, within the OP's current budget.
Buying crud on credit with a twelve month warranty isn't the greatest moneysaving idea I've ever seen.
Buying cheap will give the OP more time to figure out what they did with the ACER.