Laptop

[Bushey Boy]

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?

[Fred Elliot]

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

stay clear of Dell

[Ralphy]

£1200 on a laptop  :shock:

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

[STFCBird]

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

[Bushey Boy]

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?

[Fred Elliot]

we use Dell lappies for work and they are shoite

[Ralphy]

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?

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.

[STFCBird]

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

[Ralphy]

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.

[Bushey Boy]

So is that good?

[Fred Elliot]

very good Ash

[Sussex]

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

[Peter Venkman]

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.

[Peter Venkman]

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

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

[Ben Wah Balls]

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.