Best Spec Laptop for £300 - Ideas?

johnydeath

Hi, there are a lot of laptop deals around but has anyone come across a blinder of a deal for £300?

I know if you add another £50 you can get a lot more for your money but I really want to cap it at £300.

Just need it for internet browsing and light office work, can be XP or Vista but would like a min of 1Gb RAM.

Thanks

indierocker85

This is your best bet for £300, spec aint so bad in my opinion. But the £300 is a web exclusive price (£337 in store) so you must do the transaction wholly online, I think

Also, if you use a cashback site you can flay a bit more off. Currently quidco pay the best at 5%.

point3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-5315-Hard-drive-Accelerator/dp/B000VPJDPM

Delivered for £299.99
Triple Nectar points at the moment

johnydeath

Thanks,

The Acer looks the better spec. I'm looking down the refurbs at PC Robber, I can get a Compaq 1.7 (1600) Athlon TK53 with 1Gb, 120Gb and brightview screen for £339, or an Intel Core 2 Duo for just a tenner more.

I know I said £300 but I think I really have to finance a little more to get that much better spec.

Also with a 5% off code brings to £328 delivered and I might be able to squeeze in Quido for some more discount although I guess this will be denied after using the code.

calen1979

If you don't mind waiting a while for it and paying around £360, I can recommend the Inspiron from the Dell Business website.

For that price, if you spec it right (and they still do free delivery) you can get:

Intel Core2Duo
15.4" Screen
90W Battery (super long life)
2GB RAM
Creative Built In Soundcard (Audigy, or Xi-fi i think)
80GB hard disk
DVD-RW
Windows XP or Vista Home Premium
A nice-ish graphics card built in.

I've seen these laptops and they're quite impressive, much, much better than the dire stuff at PC World.

If you wish to reduce the cost slightly you can lower the RAM to 1GB and fiddle with the settings to bring the price to exactly £299 (to qualify for the free shipping) and then with VAT on top it'll come to approx £350, personally I'd stretch your budget a little.

Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite, but i'd recommend XP still for a home laptop, it's the most stable, and to be honest you're not going to be using it to play the latest and greatest games out there!

The shipping for this model, however, will take it into next year - they have had loads of interest in it, because it's a great deal!

Hope this helps!

Daz

*** EDIT ***

Also, it's worth looking on Quidco too as there's 5% off there, and possibly more depending on what deals they do....

natalie1974

I bought the Acer one 2 weeks ago after my 2 yr old decided my old laptop would be a great replacement for a potty :eek: ! I use it to surf the web and play games on and so far so good ! :j

johnydeath

Thanks All,

I've gone for the PCRobber Compaq F560EM refurb, ok it's an Athlon 64x2 not an Intel but it's fine for me with a good spec - 120Gb drive, 1Gb RAM and a brightview screen. Looks like these might be the overspill from a recent Orange/PCRobber deal.

Delivered with various 'ahem' discounts comes to just under £320, the non-refurb is £390.