Student laptop recommendations

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Woz

Went mad before Christmas and bought a couple for the kids and one for the current Mrs Woz (well, for myself really but needed an excuse) for around £300 each from Currys.

Nowt whatsoever wrong with any of 'em.

Keeping her on her toes?

[yorkie_chris]

Whatever you get make sure you chuck all the standard software and OS off it right handy, I've yet to see a new computer that I could use for more than 3 minutes without deleting about 40 useless bloatware programs.

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Whatever you get make sure you chuck all the standard software and OS off it right handy, I've yet to see a new computer that I could use for more than 3 minutes without deleting about 40 useless bloatware programs.

Not a problem Chris, probably go back to XP and trim that down as well, he'll need all the office stuff and several of the programs he currently has on his desktop, so a day or two's work to sort it out I suppose.

Cheers Mark.

[rictus01]

Arrived today (due on the 8th), actually very impressed, bit of a faff sorting the wireless out, but that's more Vista than the laptop, got a few nice touches like the card reader and web cam, anyway one well chuffed teenager.

Cheers Mark.

[Nicky S]

Originally Posted by rictus01

The Mrs and I are treating my youngest to a new laptop for Uni, I'm more the practical type so don't really do the new stuff, looked up my work provided one and it was £1,300

So what will he need?
he doesn't want a giant one so no 17" screen things and it'll be for general use (as in he doesn't know what he'll use it for), 80gb HD is more than enough as he has a 250gb usb thing currently.

Budget £350 - £500

Options and recommendations please.

Cheers Mark.

first off dnt buy **** just because its cheap. u buy somthing from dell if it brakes u send it back to dell and dnt see it for ages or never see it again and get a new one. dnt buy from pc world coz there monkeys. ur best bet is a acer or a toshiba they are the worlds best makes and the best reliable. if you look throught there sites :
http://www.toshiba.co.uk/
http://www.acer.co.uk/public/page74....crc=2553782219

and find what you want and for the price you can then shop around but if u dnt wnt to wasit money on a **** laptop that will die get a acer or a toshiba.

you myt think im talknig **** but its up to u ant it its ur money. need any help giv me a yell :P

[Nicky S]

Originally Posted by rictus01

Arrived today (due on the 8th), actually very impressed, bit of a faff sorting the wireless out, but that's more Vista than the laptop, got a few nice touches like the card reader and web cam, anyway one well chuffed teenager.

Cheers Mark.

and u got vista bad move

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Nicky S

first off dnt buy **** just because its cheap. u buy somthing from dell if it brakes u send it back to dell and dnt see it for ages or never see it again and get a new one. dnt buy from pc world coz there monkeys. ur best bet is a acer or a toshiba they are the worlds best makes and the best reliable. if you look throught there sites :
http://www.toshiba.co.uk/
http://www.acer.co.uk/public/page74....crc=2553782219

and find what you want and for the price you can then shop around but if u dnt wnt to wasit money on a **** laptop that will die get a acer or a toshiba.

you myt think im talknig **** but its up to u ant it its ur money. need any help giv me a yell :P

Why would ANYONE take advice from someone who cant even get a keyboard where every key works reliably????

Also, Rictus is not a numpty when it comes to IT I think he was just really looking for ideas on suppliers in the 1st place.

And as for the "Oh No VISTA" people - you try and source a decent laptop where they dont add a surcharge of about £50 for upgrading to XP.

[Nicky S]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Why would ANYONE take advice from someone who cant even get a keyboard where every key works reliably????

Also, Rictus is not a numpty when it comes to IT I think he was just really looking for ideas on suppliers in the 1st place.

And as for the "Oh No VISTA" people - you try and source a decent laptop where they dont add a surcharge of about £50 for upgrading to XP.

it dnt cost to downgrade u can only do it whith serton vista . and lol upgrade it downgrade :P

[jambo]

Originally Posted by Nicky S

and u got vista bad move

Having actually used Vista at work I really do fail to see it as a "step back". XP got all the same flak when it came out "Oh don't do that, stick with Windows 2000" like it or not over the time that Mark's son is at Uni, more and more programs are going to go to Vista only. Flattening it to put on an OS that you're more familiar with is fine and if that's what he chooses to do, great. But to stick with the supplied Vista Business is by no means a bad shout. As he's doing a computing degree it may end up with some mad setup with virtual machines, and a custom install of Linux anyway... But that'll be his son's doing, and thus, up to him to fix when it doesn't work

Jambo

[Nicky S]

Originally Posted by jambo

Having actually used Vista at work I really do fail to see it as a "step back". XP got all the same flak when it came out "Oh don't do that, stick with Windows 2000" like it or not over the time that Mark's son is at Uni, more and more programs are going to go to Vista only. Flattening it to put on an OS that you're more familiar with is fine and if that's what he chooses to do, great. But to stick with the supplied Vista Business is by no means a bad shout. As he's doing a computing degree it may end up with some mad setup with virtual machines, and a custom install of Linux anyway... But that'll be his son's doing, and thus, up to him to fix when it doesn't work

Jambo

makes senc but no one told me that any of u lot sort of new what you were talking about so i said it as u didnt know anything and easyest way. but vista will take a long time to fix i mean it has 3 millon more lines of code then xp that a lot of code