What laptop?

[Hob&Jill 258]

I want to buy a laptop, ideally no more than 500 but could stretch a little if it was nessesary... what should I be looking at?

 

I appreciate this is probably a pretty vague question but I dont know enough to make it broader lol...

 

Boffins, Geeks and nerds please help me,

 

HJ

[higgins 75]

what will you want it to do for you,answer this first,tben someone will tell you what specs to look for,

Higgins

[Captain Keg 2]

good question from Higgins, but we have always used Dell both at home and work and they have been Bullet Proof

[Hob&Jill 258]

Just general things..dont play on any games...just internet, email, word etc.

 

hope this helps.

[medic1281 5]

You should be able to pick a good one up from the likes of pc world for about £350-£400. Not much point going much more expensive as any of the laptops will handle the basics that your looking for. I bought a cheap and cheerful toshiba from there for uni and it handles everythin i throw at it. Things to look at are screen size, battery life and things like wifi and if you like the look and feel of it. The spec doesn't really matter too much as you wont be workin it hard with just browsing and emails!

Anyway, thats just my opinion, hope it helps!

ATB

Phil

[Hob&Jill 258]

Thanks a lot medic. I thought as much, maybe I can spend a little less. Skint anyway..got a bit carried away in harvey nichols leeds last week

 

any ideas on best brands etc?

 

atb,

 

HJ

[mangy1983 51]

If you shop on Ebay some good deals can be found there and some good spec refurbished laptops can be gotten there for £200 or so with warranty

 

I would say the standard spec for laptops at the moment are:

 

2Ghz Core 2 Duo Intel Processor

2 Gb of memory

Hard drive capacity should be around 40Gb +

and for all you require for Word etc internal graphics should be ok

 

I bought a refurbished Dell gaming laptop for £1200 which would have normally cost around £1800 3 or 4 years ago and the processor spec and memory spec from above were the dogs b0110cks then but now they are the standard specs to go for. My laptop as stated in a previous post is pretty much bullet proof and in good working condition.

 

Another thing to watch out for is as software gets more technologically advanced even your web browsers, email clients and ms word they will put more of a strain on your laptops components so you should also think for the future not just the present.

 

cheers Callum

Edited November 3, 2010 by mangy1983

[JohnGalway 1,043]

I've a Dell Inspiron 9300 for the past five years or so. It's great, never a major problem with it. I'd avoid Acer, HP & Compaq.

[paulk73 151]

i bought my 2 kids a dell inspiron each for xmas 2 yrs ago. the hinges have gone on both of them. on one of them it was within the 12 month warrentee period. i took it back to currys, and was told because it wasnt the internals of the laptop, it wasnt covered in the warrentee. i went mad, there was loads of peeps in looking around and i told em that the aftersales service was crap, and that i wouldnt by owt from them ever again.

would never, by another dell. and would never by anything from currys. they messed us about rotten.

toshiba, are meant to be good. easy to work on and the parts are easy to get if you ever need them.

[shepp 2,285]

I know people with Dell computers and I think build quality is pretty poor. I would go for an Acer, great lap tops for the money.