Looking to get a New Laptop. Help?

[benJee_VTR]

Right, im looking to get a new laptop and want to spend between £300 and £400. But if it's worth it, i could stretch to £500 max.

It's only for home use... web browsing, iTunes and dowloading.

Must have:

- HDMI out, so i can plug it into my HD TV.

- At least 200GB Hard Drive for my music.

- Half decent Processor (No more Sempron or Celeron)
I'm thinking more like AMD Athlon or Pentium Duel Core.

- Would be nice to have one with Windows Media Center, to use with my
Xbox360..but not essential.

- Not looking for a massive screen, or high end graphics card as im not going
to be gaming on it.


So far im looking at Packard Bell:

- http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/138073/?camp_id=ppc_google_long_tail_laptops_pb_easynote_ tj61rb030

- http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/338270/?camp_id=ppc_google_long_tail_laptops_pb_easynote_ tj65au031

And Sony Vaio:

- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-15-5inch-Notebook-Windows-Premium/dp/B002RSNWI0/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1260218403&sr=1-12



Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Or any experience with the above laptops :y:

[benJee_VTR]

Oh yea, PC World are doing up to £100 smackers off any new laptop with Windows 7, if you trade in your old laptop. So you can minus £50-100 off PC World's prices.

[Joe3490]

Tbh packard bell comes aint that great tbh, And sony ones you are paying for the name most of time, very flimsy,

[Mieran]

Have a look on the Dell website:

www.dell.co.uk/deals

[benJee_VTR]

Tbh packard bell comes aint that great tbh, And sony ones you are paying for the name most of time, very flimsy,

Really? Ive only heard good things about the Vaio ^^ Seemed pretty nice when i had a look in PC World today. And as my budget is only £400 ish, surely thats the best for the money?

What do you reccommend?

Have a look on the Dell website:

www.dell.co.uk/deals

Cheers mate, looks like some good deals. Not sure about the look and feel of the dells, but for the money, they seem pretty good.

[kennysevenfold]

This would be ideal

HERE (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-5536-Laptop-2-2GHz-4GB-500GB-HDD-15-6-HDM_W0QQitemZ300365585192QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Com puting_Laptops_EH?hash=item45ef2f1b28)

[McGuire86]

This would be ideal

HERE (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-5536-Laptop-2-2GHz-4GB-500GB-HDD-15-6-HDM_W0QQitemZ300365585192QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Com puting_Laptops_EH?hash=item45ef2f1b28)

wouldnt get one from ebay, plus have you seen his negative feedback ? mostly all of it is for the laptops, must be something dodget. also that laptop is usually £500 in most places and like £370 here ? hmm

[MunkyBoy]

No to Vaio.

I've had so many over the years come in to get fixed, they just seem to break!

Personally, I like those aspires, they are robust little bastards. If

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173536

How about that mate?

[Predator_R32]

As above

Sony vaios suck, i mean really suck, had mine 2 years and the keysare dropping off, dvd drive is tempromental, wearing out around casing and the left mouse button doesnt work

inface when i got it, it had to be replaced 3 times before i got one that was ok lol, stay away from them

I just bought a dell xps m1730, me sister just got a basic dell and my word the build quality is awesome

As mieran said go on dell and check out their deals, they have them on all the time

[SaxoMuffin]

IMO the brand for that money is probably HP, very reliable machines that is what we supply to our contracts at work.

But if you are willing to spend that bit more I would get this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1873158887.126025730 4@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccgdadejdemgmmjcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=866913&category_oid=#productInformationSection

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[benJee_VTR]

This would be ideal

HERE (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-5536-Laptop-2-2GHz-4GB-500GB-HDD-15-6-HDM_W0QQitemZ300365585192QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Com puting_Laptops_EH?hash=item45ef2f1b28)

Looks good, that. Decent spec for £349. Thanks mate :y:

wouldnt get one from ebay, plus have you seen his negative feedback ? mostly all of it is for the laptops, must be something dodget. also that laptop is usually £500 in most places and like £370 here ? hmm

Yeah maybe, although he has got 27,000 odd feedback with %99.3 positive.. but still, link below is from eBuyer, so should be better.

No to Vaio.

I've had so many over the years come in to get fixed, they just seem to break!

Personally, I like those aspires, they are robust little bastards. If

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173536

How about that mate?

Yeah looks nice as well as a decent spec.. think its the one tbh.

As above

Sony vaios suck, i mean really suck, had mine 2 years and the keysare dropping off, dvd drive is tempromental, wearing out around casing and the left mouse button doesnt work

inface when i got it, it had to be replaced 3 times before i got one that was ok lol, stay away from them

I just bought a dell xps m1730, me sister just got a basic dell and my word the build quality is awesome

As mieran said go on dell and check out their deals, they have them on all the time

Cheers matey, think i will stay away from the vaio after your advice, never would have thought they'd have been that bad!

IMO the brand for that money is probably HP, very reliable machines that is what we supply to our contracts at work.

But if you are willing to spend that bit more I would get this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1873158887.126025730 4@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccgdadejdemgmmjcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=866913&category_oid=#productInformationSection

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Cheers mate, little bit out of my price range, but the spec is similair to that acer.. also i like the HP ones in my first post too.

[Predator_R32]

Yeah vaios are really bad imo, really gone dowhill these days

id say get yourself to pc world etc have a look about, then come back online and buy the model you like on there

but dell, HP, asus, samsung are all decent

hiba used to be good but seem to be getting worse