Laptop recomendations..please help..

Hi guys,


Can anyone recomend any laptop for max £500 for my kid sister for Uni, I wanted to get her a cheapish laptop and didnt want to get fleeced by pcworld. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Ta

Phil

[Wideboy]

stay clear of acer i had a bad experience with there laptops

Originally Posted by 5v5 rider

Hi guys,


Can anyone recomend any laptop for max £500 for my kid sister for Uni, I wanted to get her a cheapish laptop and didnt want to get fleeced by pcworld. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Ta

Phil

PC World - You might just get a bargain. I read in a Sunday business section that they'd bought too much laptop stock for the Vista launch...

On the other hand, don't hold your breath.

dunno how good it is but @ pc world you get a free laptop when you get orange BB for a year

Don't write of PC World mate, they can be quite competitive. Just don't go for all the 'extras' coz thats where the sting is. £40 for a check up and that kind of stuff.

I have a Packard Bell with a 17in screen which was 600 notes a year ago and I have had no trouble with it at all.

One thing to consider, computers go out of date very quickly so try and get one as future proof as possible, or better still, lease one. That way it can be upgraded every couple of years. Its up to you really what you want to do, but these days £500 will buy you quite a lot of hardware, just don't buy from ebay, or some shonky website....

You should get a dualcore with at least a 1GB of ram, this is pretty much the minimum needed to run the very resource hungry Vista. Go and have a chat with them, you don't have to part with your cash and you might get some good advice.....

And, no I don't work for them by the way.....

HTH

Gordon

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-5655...ort.y%3d9.aspx

Try tesco's theyre not that bad

Will she be needing it for games? Images? Movies? Photoshop? Just the internet? Microsoft Office? Size Hard disk?


Personally, I'd go Dell "for my needs". I don't use MS Office as I can use google Documents & Spreadsheets for free & Star Office is a free download. For my needs I'm going for the Duo processor as I do loads of cpu intensive work i.e. .net querying a 2 gb sql db.

Depends on her needs - basically a bit more info required!

Oh & steer clear of cheap bargains.....they're cheap for a reason.

Don't get a Sony Vaio.. I know of 3 inc mine that gave up after 18 months or so..

think twice before getting a laptop. I've had 3 and always think that a PC tower would have been a better buy! Laptops have limited life...and at such a premium cost!

Lovely gesture though

http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/

Try these out, ive recently bought a 17" lappy off them very happy with, superb screen can view from any angle no loss of picture quality, very nice bit of kit.

Jas.