for around £400-£450 what should I be looking for

any hints or tips please

 

tesco do some cracking deals on laptops have a look

 

This is a good spec for the money.

 

The one i'm posting on at the mo was a reconditioned one from PC world, good spec for the price, you would never know it wasn't a brand spanker, may be worth a look? i think it depends what they have in at the time

 

as per the other day, i agree

Or, if you dont like that for whatever reason then Ebuyer do some very good ones http://www.ebuyer.com/product/144181

You should look out for wireless, and usb ports(the more the better as alot of devices require usb nowa days) and obviously if you have a wireless router in your house wireless is a must, but you should get one with wireless anyway as its great to have
Dont get anything with a screen smaller than 15" unless you want something ultra portable/light, as web browsing on a small screen can get abit annoying personally, thats about it.

Either two we have posted will be ideal

 

What about this one?
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...3&category_oid=


or this

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...5&category_oid=

 

dont get one with vista thats for sure. We have nothing but trouble with ours

 

mines been fine, i like vista -but i dont know a huge amount about computers lol

 

ours was fine until about a month ago, we keep getting errors and things stopping working now

Sarah

 

I have no problem with vista, have it on 3 laptops and they work perfectly all the time, when was the last time Windows Update ran? Did you install any new software and then had the problems?

 

Ive ran updates and had them all, ive not installed and software and now ive got loads of internet pages that wont work.



Sorry to hijack the thread btw

 

DONT even entertain PC world....

go to www.ebuyer.com - they got laptops from £200 right up to £1000+ ones, something for everyone - you'll pick up a nice one and have some change left over

PC world will rape you for the laptop, a laptop bag, plus support, plus software blah blah blah

 

I swear i type in invisible text sometimes

The ones that ME and LEEROY put up are ideal.

Pcworld arent that good, yes, BUT the one leeroy put up is very well spec'd for the price, your getting ALOT for your money.

The two you put are no where near as good as the one leeroy put it, so dont bother with those.
If your want one from pcworld then it needs to be core 2 duo and at least 2GBs of ram, and around 200GBs hard drive space.
Or look on the link i provided, that is also a very good make/spec, your getting free delivery AND you'll get £10 change

 

just incase you missed what i said above, those two are rubbish compared to leeroys and my links.
The processor is older technology basically, and it will be alot slower

 

Lol ok cheers

its just that its not a brand the i know about


got to get it from pc world as i have a card from my insurance for £400 as my laptop got dropped and cracked the case still works fine tho

 

Acer is a well known laptop brand, another guy off here was singing its praises the other week.

 

my missus asks if its a pc world own brand

 

Not that I know of. As said above stay away from Vista thou.

 

It all depends on what you want the laptop for? gaming? or like 90% of people just the odd word document and internet browsing?
if its the latter then the pc is going to do sod all work, so you arent going to need the latest and fastest computer. i would be looking for a well known brand (can't go wrong with hp/compaq) with the most RAM, forget processor speed as you wont notice it as much as ram (vista is very memory intensive so 2gb min)

 

Acer are great ive had the acer pc im using now for about 18months and its not missed a beat im really happy with it, so much so that i ordered this on tuesday to replace my broken hp laptop.
http://www.acer.com/gemstoneblue/uk/

http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Asp...87/version.asp

 

Stay away from vista & acer.

 

whats so bad about vista and acer then?

 

Cheers for that

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