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Laptop is 4 years old and pretty much is shot so need a new one.  Its used mainly for business and needs the following:-

Use of outlook
small management software (which I have)
Windows etc (word and excels all I use)
Internet

Have a budget of us to about £1200 but obviously would rather spend less (around £500 - £600 be ideal)

I use it solely for work, the odd bit of surfing and posting on this forum (need a life)

Any ideas?

£600 will buy to a decent model mate, it's not like to game on it

stay clear of Dell

£1200 on a laptop  :shock:

Mate, you can get a shit hot one for £600-700

I've always had Dell Lap tops and always had Dells at work. Never had a problem.

Im not technical at all so just based it on what I spent last time.  I bought a PC from Dell which has been spot on?

we use Dell lappies for work and they are shoite

My sister has a Dell, not failed yet.

I was looking at laptops yesterday in Currys. £600 gets you 200 GB hard drive, dual core processor and 1-2 gb of RAM.

100's and thousands of people use Dell, if they are good enough for Jack Bauer they are good enough for me  :mrgreen:

Ash, this is a top of the range one on the Currys site....

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0031595834.1195206569@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdcaddmiekkhdfcflgceggdhhmdfnn.0&page=Product&fm=1&sm=0&tm=0&sku=023573&category_oid=-27405

For £699, look what you get.

So is that good?

very good Ash

I love my Dell laptop. She's called Bart.

Whatever you go for avoid Dell, laptops or desktops, terrible reputation, poor reliability and inferior chips and motherboards, yes you can get a good one but they are rare.

Acer do great cheap ones that will be good alround with a 17 inch screen, 2gb memory 120gb HD, gaming capable graphics DVD writer for around £550 tops, ebuyer.com or dabs.com will sort you out.

this one only has a 15 inch screen but has got £100 cash back on it.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128182

That laptop is shit for £700, that's not close to top of the range.

My one, which is a Dell and I'm very happy with, was £800 including delivery and is much quicker, 17" screen with very high resolution for multitabling poker, two 160gb hard drives and much better graphics, that one doesn't even seem to have a graphics card so vista will run pretty bad. Also looks pretty ugly to me.

This one from Dell for £730 is a lot better but probably more than you need. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/RBIredirect.aspx?rbi=GKiitGAbBa2SB+6V9bxpR1iJq0ljnDjVqzoNJ99egnoqsfSqsWpewzPh8khI9QppUAVhZYPavcoGvJwA4+RJsKvMBvItqpUdkHnjdcawY+nBPCR4JYeTv3M1s6xWUhBu/PgUe0QQ/i28ogehOeu8w9/pOJxU1PEwkPgNvdGNceJOsgS3oLvRnKHIehYyFiQQ4h2AEjmxkkmxs3iczFiPJw==

I looked around for a while and Dell's are by far the best value, especially if you buy when they have a big discount on which they do a lot of the time, sony vaio's look the best but cost a lot more. Also, if you ring up to cancel your order from Dell they will often give you a £50 discount if you change your mind. I wouldn't buy a desktop from them but for laptops I think they're pretty good.

vaio's have a tendency to blow up/catch fire/melt. dell laptops came recommended to me when i was looking.

BWB - my laptop was £150 cheaper, has a bigger screen and a slightly slower processor (1.73ghz). ash doesn't really need a machine with a 256mb graphics card either...

this (http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/amilo_li_18xx.html) is my laptop, was £470 from PC World *spit* - only downside is the onboard graphics now my desktop PC has died.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-560
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-581
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-024-SA&groupid=959&catid=954&subcat=

My Dell laptop is shite and I'm not talking spec wise. Don't buy from Dell.

Yeah but why do you think it's shite and how long have you had it? I only really had the choice of a Dell, Vaio or Macbook Pro because I needed 1920*1200 resolution, had heard bad stuff about Vaio's and they were way more expensive and the Macbook was even more overpriced so was a pretty easy choice.



This one's pretty good for the price, would probably be ideal, not sure how well Vista would run but you could always get XP instead. Vista is great if you have a quick pc but probably not worth it if you don't. I don't think he needs really good graphics either, just meant you can get a lot more for £700. If he was going to get a Dell, this one would probably be good enough. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/RBIredirect.aspx?rbi=GKiitGAbBa2SB+6V9bxpR1iJq0ljnDjVqzoNJ99egnoqsfSqsWpewzPh8khI9QppUAVhZYPavcoGvJwA4+RJsIlEAWlbMh0Cb4Y2SnkSiXvEN8vwSf9btlkqnoa5B86TqMy8ShuFabWNh1Piwb/xNRH0f4zL/b1Mrft5IqXeZ+jpD6g2+RulLxpPqpSMoBodl2algWecCfSv/DrKhTMPnA==

why don't you look into the subject you lazy gimp

I've had my Dell for years. Reason it's shite is not down to spec, because that would be silly slating it for that.

*It's poorly designed.
*It has cheap components.
*Replacement parts are ridiculously expensive in proportion to the initial cost.
*My battery died after 13 months.

I've no idea what they're like to use now but many people I know aren't happy with them.

Fair enough, yeah my housemate had an old one and it seemed pretty crap but I like the design of mine and components seem pretty good, it's an inspiron 1720, I don't like the design of the XPS ones much though.

Si's right. The build quality of Dell's are crap. That's how they afford to undercut everybody elses prices by 20% to 30%.

HP are very reliable and last time I looked they done cash back offers as well.

I will have a second hand P4 laptop for sale in about a week, certainly good enough for most things.

If you're going to spend around a grand (not that you need to) look at www.rockdirect.com

If I can fix your old one can I have it?

I've already tried that too Ben  :(

yeah but you suck at fixing computers.

It was a dodgy power supply but Bushey's going to keep it for music and stuff.

lame

I know. Here's a question I will pose to you Ben - can your computer take DDR2 RAM?

Fuck knows. Is that the old school sort?

NO BEN YOU'RE THINKING OF PC133. PROBABLY.

SOMEONE BUY ME A NEW PC. I WANT  TO PLAY GAMES.

Speak in caps lock again and I'll ban you. I drank lots last night and now I've got to work out trains and stuff.

I CAN'T TURN CAPSLOCK OFF :(

oh wait i was pressing tab.

sorry ben

Clown... :mrgreen:

My Dell Inspiron of 2.5 yrs is dying...  The battery has been shot for ages and the harddisk (80gb) is down to about 50gb because of bad clusters - am looking to get a new one for Xmas, will probably go for the Sony Vaio.  Have a budget of around £600 though so won't be anything too fancy but I only surf the net/word process/Football Manager!

I don't think I'd buy another Dell to be honest, but I've had no experience of other manufacturer's laptops.  The battery dying was a big issue as it's no longer really that portable!   :|