Student laptop recommendations

Pretty much anything from £300 up is going to "do the job" but i would max out the ram if possible

Personally i'd avoid fujitsu like the plague, they're badly built and the aftersales support is absolutely useless and engineers incompetent, A fuji engineer we got at work asked us to download the tech manual for him.....

Can't go wrong with dell to be honest

Get a desktop. Laptops are easily stolen, are much lower spec, and get nailed by students in no time. You'd be looking at replacing it within 18 months whereas the desktop will rock on

Many companies offer Student Discounts with confirmation of placement associated with a wide variety of University.

You could try Apple!

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/hom...ng?mco=MTE2NTI

Dell Inspiron 1525 with a decent chip, 2 gig of ram, a web cam for video chat and what ever colour they want. Kate's got one and she loves it!!

An older powerbook G4 maybe?

buy apple - not cheap (education discount available) but can...stress can run all your windows programs and wont suffer from viruses. Have used one as a teacher for the last 7 years, wouldn't go back to a xp/vista machine.

[ethariel]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

However to the spec asked for , any £300 from Dell, Toshiba, Acer, Asus, Advent or whoever will do.

I would avoid the SCC ones, like the Acer EEE PC as they are a bit gimmicky and only a small step up from a PDA.

Stick a USB hub, mouse and keyboard into the budget as having these will make the thing more useable when its on his desk in his room.

Yep that just about sums it up for Surfing/Word Processing, though if you are looking at Video Editing then it would be desktop territory.

All IMHO tho!

Colin

[rictus01]

Well ended up getting one from the Dell outlet store, Vostro 1510 £271 + delivery

I also paid for a wireless mouse & keyboard ( and was impressed so much I bought myself one as well).

So he's happy as it gives him £100 or so to spend on other stuff.

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T5670 (1.8 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Business with Service Pack 1 - English
LCD 15.4" Widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with Anti-Glare Coating
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Glossy Black without Camera
MEMORY 2048MB (2x1024) 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
HARD DRIVE 250GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
GRAPHICS CARD IntelJ Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
OPTICAL DRIVE Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive including Software
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 6-cell 56 WHr Lithium Ion battery

thanks for the help guys.

Cheers Mark.

[timwilky]

Mark

Has your lad got his accommodation in Preston sorted. Halls or private landlord etc. If he need advice on areas etc. Give us a shout.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Mark

Has your lad got his accommodation in Preston sorted. Halls or private landlord etc. If he need advice on areas etc. Give us a shout.

Yeah thanks, he's sorted, on campus accomadation, I'm delivering him and his stuff up there on the 12th.

Cheers Mark.