Throwing the gauntlet down

[Kazz]

Okay people I am throwing the gauntlet down for whoever wants to pick it up.
I want a laptop (see made that choice) and need it to just surf the net (ie come on catsey/dogsey) send emails and thats about it really. As I will have the main computer for that sort of stuff.....oh it must hav sound too (see I noted that Angie ;) )
Top price about £450 :-D see what you can find me.

[Moli]

Have a look at the PC World site Kazz, they start from 249pounds...

[angieh]

I'd have a look at Dell website too Kazz.

[dandysmom]

I'd have a look at Dell website too Kazz.

A friend has a Dell laptop and loves it! He also says tech support is super...'course that's here.

[Mags]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000VZZ70C/

I noticed this one on Amazon, Kazz, and Acer are meant to be a good make .....there is a really good discount on it at the moment but it is just slightly over your budget.

Acer Aspire 7720G Notebook Laptop
Core 2 Duo
T7300 2.0GHz
17" TFT
2048MB RAM
2x160GB Hard-drive
DVD±RW with HD Capability
GeForce 8400M Graphics
Integrated Webcam
WiFi
Windows Vista Home Premium

Was £799.99, now £499.99

[Annestaff]

Asda have some laptops in stock at the moment, think the Toshiba ones about £349 :D

[angieh]

http://www.pc-order.co.uk/uk/dell-offers/?cat=2&tracker=Brand&gclid=CNa92YHYl5YCFSNPMAodAlhd5w

There are offers!

[fancyabrew]

plenty of bargins to be had

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dfh&~ck=betafrbsd

[yola]

Mags, I had an Acer and it was seriously underpowered and not at all reliable. I might have just been unlucky though. This was in the days when I just used the home PCs for surfing the web, listening to music and sending emails.

With laptops it's all about getting the highest-specced one you can afford. We also bought a Compaq for a member of staff several years ago and it ended up being a bit of a rubbish machine; I suspect due to spec rather than build.

I had a work DELL PC and I found it to be excellent. They will build it to your needs so you don't end up paying for things you don't really need.

[PoshPuss]

OH gave me a surprise pressie of this laptop for Christmas. He went with friend of his who is very computer savvy. this is a Toshiba ad to be honest it does more than I allow it to coz I'm a bit timid to experiment. I surf the web, email and Skype my sister in the States and thats about it. But this can download anything , youtubes, etc. movies if I want, but I don't. I have burned CDs on it, copied files etc. I dn't need to store a lot of music but it can do. I had it 2 years ago this Xmas, so its come down in price. It cost £500 then . It's a Toshiba Equium with Windows xp.
It suits me, so there ya go :)

[calismum]

I have a dell and toshiba.

Dell is much more robust and better build quality than the toshiba.

Toshiba is slightly higher spec as it is newer machine.

I'd say both were good buy.

Try looking up some reviews on different laptops and see what you get back

CM

[fancyabrew]

plenty of bargins to be had

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dfh&~ck=betafrbsd

I'm an IT manager for my sin's and I always recommend DELL Outlet to members of staff asking about PC's. All our kit I get from DELL. All the PC’s on the Outlet are things that have been returned to DELL for some reason, such as the spec was wrong. All the stuff is brand new and you have the same warranty as new stuff, it’s just that DELL can’t sell the stuff as new, hence some BIG savings! You can get a lot for your money. Only trouble is the site changes daily so there might not be anything that catchs your eye today but you might tomorrow, so you have to be quick!
£454 inc VAT and shipping will currently get you this
INSPIRON 1525 (System Identifier. 0115HLWJ)
Inspiron 1525 CORE 2 DUO T5750 2.00GHz
English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium
________________________________________
System Price £387.12
Dell recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

Operating System: English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium
Memory: 2048MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Hard Disk Drive: 250GB HD (5400RPM)
NoteBook Screen: Display LCD 15.4 WXGA
Modem: Internal 56K Modem
CD Read-Write Drive: DVD+/-RW
Software: BT, AOL, Tiscali ISP Combination
MISC: Battery Inspiron Primary 6 Cell
Image Restore - Vista
MS Vista Premium Logo Label NB (small
Vista OnLine Getting Started Guide (WW
LCD Back Cover Jet Black Matte
2.0 Mega pixel web camera
Internal Keyboard Uk/Irish (QWERTY)
65W AC Adapter
Dell Wireless 1395 Mini-Card 802.11b/g EMEA

[smudgley]

My laptop is a compaq.

Seems fine.:cool:

Does what I need it to. :cool:

[Moli]

Have you decided yet Kazz???