Need a laptop for about £500

Ross_L_2

My god finding a laptop is soo much harder than building a PC! Purely due to a lack of pure choice. Also there seems to be a huge diffrence in price of going for a VAIO or a non-brand with a similar spec. SO PURLEASE any info you can think of.

So here's what i'm after.

£500 budget

2Ghz CPU (unsure of core 2 duo vs AMD X2? please advise. Also is the core 2 duo extreme affordable?)

1GB RAM expandable to 4GB (could buy with 1GB installed and by more seems a CHEAPER option??)

DVD-RW (poss blue ray?)

GFX - completely lost. But nothing with a shared memory (i don't need anything amazing I rarely ever play games - i haven't in TWO YEARS - but should something take my fancy it should be able to run it)

- decent sound card
- card reader
- wifi
- TV tuner - unsure but would be good.
- If poss remote.
all regular inputs.

PORTABLE - but 15" screen

USE:
DVD Burning
Web browsing
DIVX watching
MP3 Player
Microsoft Office


All help greatly appreciated, and let me know if more info from me is needed.

Thank you.

oxter

Would this not be better posted on Techie Stuff? They would have a clue what you are after. I'll watch the replies 'cos I'm after much the same. Have you tried the Dell website and then reduce the guarantee to the minimum for the best price? Hot Deals have some good ones listed as well. A guy MikeT posts all the Dell offers there.
Good luck

mk-donald

Well at the very least use the Aldi offering due next Sunday as a reference point with a number of unusual features - numeric keypad, TV, fingerprint security, eSATA, three year warranty.
http://www.medion.de/md96350/uk
http://uk.aldi.com/sunday_special_buys/index.html

bantamfan

as mentioned above, try this

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deal/54015/fujitsu-siemens-laptop-dual-core-2g

looks like a good deal.