Sub-£300 laptop bargains.

Harrietxxx

Snapelover wrote: »

My daughter, 12, wants to buy herself a laptop. She is aware that it is going to cost her quite a bit of money but is prepared to save what is required for something decent. But what us decent? Can anyone give us some advice.

She wants to be able to use the internet, run windows Vista and just general PC things like ms office etc. One that is going to last a while and something that is fast with plenty memory/ram (I'm not really sure what I'm talking about but I'm sure someone can guide us both).

Hi Snapelover,

I too am looking for a laptop for my 12 year old and one for my 15 year old. I have decided to go for one of the Toshiba Satelite in the first post which has cashback of £50 at the moment. I think it has everything that a teenager needs with the exception maybe of a built in webcam. If it looks good when I get it then I plan to order a second one. I think I may need to buy some student package for word, excel etc as these don't come as standard I don't think.

HTH

Snapelover

Harrietxxx wrote: »

Hi Snapelover,

I too am looking for a laptop for my 12 year old and one for my 15 year old. I have decided to go for one of the Toshiba Satelite in the first post which has cashback of £50 at the moment. I think it has everything that a teenager needs with the exception maybe of a built in webcam. If it looks good when I get it then I plan to order a second one. I think I may need to buy some student package for word, excel etc as these don't come as standard I don't think.

HTH

Just clicked on the link and

Claim £50 Cash Back from Toshiba for purchases made between 18th February 2008 and 18th March 2008


so we are too late. :mad::mad::mad:

Nytehawk

I have just had delivered this refurbished laptop which IMO is good value for money: HTH

This is a refurbished product and comes with a full 12-month warranty. A refurbished product is a product that has been returned by a customer and has since been refurbished to new. It has been data cleansed, professionally checked and tested, and reboxed with all applicable accessories. That means you can buy with peace of mind and make great savings.

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5300<LI class=indentFeature>1.73GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB Cache
• [URL="javascript:showEditorial('Genuine-Windows');"]Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium[/URL]
• 1GB Memory
• 80GB Hard Drive

• DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
• 15.4" Widescreen Display
• 128MB Shared Graphics
• Wireless Enabled
• Up to 3 Hours Battery Life

Former_MSE_Lawrence

Snapelover wrote: »

Just clicked on the link and

Claim £50 Cash Back from Toshiba for purchases made between 18th February 2008 and 18th March 2008


so we are too late. :mad::mad::mad:

I thought the same upon seeing the microdirect site, but actually, it just seems that Toshiba have a different form for each month the offer's on. This month's form expires on the 30th (purchase date), so there's still more than enough time if you want one.

Hope this helps.

Jockthearab

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/168978/acer-aspire-5720-play-com-289-99/

Just saw this (Acer Aspire 5720) when I got in from work & checked out the hotukdeals site. Seems a bargain, ordered one for my daughters forthcoming birthday...if she's good she gets to keep it, if not, it's gonna be mine!

Snapelover

Nytehawk wrote: »

I have just had delivered this refurbished laptop which IMO is good value for money: HTH

This is a refurbished product and comes with a full 12-month warranty. A refurbished product is a product that has been returned by a customer and has since been refurbished to new. It has been data cleansed, professionally checked and tested, and reboxed with all applicable accessories. That means you can buy with peace of mind and make great savings.

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5300<LI class=indentFeature>1.73GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB Cache
• Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
• 1GB Memory
• 80GB Hard Drive

• DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
• 15.4" Widescreen Display
• 128MB Shared Graphics
• Wireless Enabled
• Up to 3 Hours Battery Life

Any chance you could say where you bought it from?

Harrietxxx

Snapelover wrote: »

Just clicked on the link and

Claim £50 Cash Back from Toshiba for purchases made between 18th February 2008 and 18th March 2008


so we are too late. :mad::mad::mad:

No, It's definitely been extended to 30 April

Nytehawk

Snapelover wrote: »

Any chance you could say where you bought it from?

Just Pm'd you

spv4u

The upto £50 cashback from Toshiba is still on till the end of the month, as it was extended, check out laptopsdirect.co.uk and they ahve details and application forms on their site.

Acer laptops tend to have webcams built in, but alot of the main brands now have them built in, but dont pay over the top as you can pick them up for next to nothing these days.

As for MS Office dont pay the over inflated prices!!! go here http://www.openoffice.org/ it is a free office suite that can open, edit and save in MS format. It is totally free and made by Sun Microsystems (they made java big on the web). My company uses this on store workstations to reduce the Microsoft Licience costs.

Martin should add this to his weekly news letter as it is a great alternative to the MS Office product.

If you go with this product perhaps you could spend the extra on a slightly higher spec laptop??

Mark

RichTeaBiscuit

Nytehawk wrote: »

I have just had delivered this refurbished laptop which IMO is good value for money: HTH

This is a refurbished product and comes with a full 12-month warranty. A refurbished product is a product that has been returned by a customer and has since been refurbished to new. It has been data cleansed, professionally checked and tested, and reboxed with all applicable accessories. That means you can buy with peace of mind and make great savings.

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5300<LI class=indentFeature>1.73GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB Cache
• Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
• 1GB Memory
• 80GB Hard Drive

• DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
• 15.4" Widescreen Display
• 128MB Shared Graphics
• Wireless Enabled
• Up to 3 Hours Battery Life

Fancy sharing the secret with me too? If it does have 12months warranty it sounds like a good deal.