Where's the best place to find.......

[Chris]

...... cheap laptops??

The Girlf and I are looking to buy ourselves a nice Christmas Pressie in the shape of a laptop.

What sort of stuff should we be looking for?? We want it to be fairly quick and have a fairly big memory (preferrably 1024).

I think we've got a budget of about £450.

Can any of you help?

Cheers!

Chris :)

[Clouds_mate]

Im currently on the look out for one too chris, Saw a good one at comet i think. 1.6ghz CPU, 80GB hdd and 1gb of RAM perfect for wireless internet around the house. Thikn that was about £400 - they have a lower spec which is £350 with 40gb hdd and 512mb of ram too

[seat-craig]

dabs.com is good

[Chris]

Im currently on the look out for one too chris, Saw a good one at comet i think. 1.6ghz CPU, 80GB hdd and 1gb of RAM perfect for wireless internet around the house. Thikn that was about £400 - they have a lower spec which is £350 with 40gb hdd and 512mb of ram too

We,ve seen a Packard Bell in Currys Digital for £399 and that has 1gb RAM, 60gb HD, 1.6ghz, good for wireless. Might have to go for a trip to Comet on the weekend then!!

Chris :)

[VTS_16v_Boy]

Dell are quite good, not sure if they sorted the problem out with the batteries that just burst into flames, but aslong as you've got a cupa tea near to put it out you should be fine :-)

£399 sounds a good price all jokin aside

[Chris]

dabs.com is good

Just had a quick look and the cheapest 1gb RAM laptop they do is £460.

Thanks anyway!

Chris :)

[Clouds_mate]

Dell are quite good, not sure if they sorted the problem out with the batteries that just burst into flames, but aslong as you've got a cupa tea near to put it out you should be fine :-)

£399 sounds a good price all jokin aside



Dell battery recall was a bitch with over 300 users having them.



Chris - sounds the same one im on about. Yeh it is nice, my Gran gave us the penny for one but just wanted to get it closer to xmas as it is a present lol

[Chris]

Dell are quite good, not sure if they sorted the problem out with the batteries that just burst into flames, but aslong as you've got a cupa tea near to put it out you should be fine :-)

£399 sounds a good price all jokin aside

Heard bad things about their Customer Services..... like that fact that it's in India apparently!

Chris :)

[jclaydon]

Hhhhhm. One of my mates just bought a new laptop, he got a really good price for a really good spec machine. I'll try and get a link for you both.

[mick2404]

Try here... his links change every week:

http://www.ecodes.paidlinks.co.uk/Dell.htm


I bought my girfriend this :

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/117785

about a month or so ago... seems to be excellent.. she's had no bother with it at all... and it comes with xp pro and dvd writer, 15" screen :)

HTH

Mick

[dannyjay]

www.ebuyer.com

Fricken awesome place to buy from! :Y:

[Jonny_H]

bowlers in manchester on a saturday...

[Chris]

bowlers in manchester on a saturday...

I'm from Kent!

Chris :)

[sax51]

dell have a tv offer on at the moment 19 inc screen dvd rw cant remember rest £399 all in

[DevilDamo]

Dell's prices are very good... I had a flick through one of their brochures today. But what's top of the range now will not be top of the range in weeks to come. It changes sooo quickly.

If I was to get another desktop or a laptop, then I'd be looking at getting a Dell.

[Curran]

i will be looking to get a new laptop soon.

dell are good because their laptops can be upgraded easily where as others cant. there are a couple of others that i know of that can be but i have forgoten which.

[Dan]

Aparently woolworths were selling some hp laptops half price this week, supposed to be very good too. They were reduced from £800 to £400.

[Chris]

Aparently woolworths were selling some hp laptops half price this week, supposed to be very good too. They were reduced from £800 to £400.

Hmmmm.... Think I'll have a look on the Woolworths website if they have one then!

Chris :)

[Tupps]

here it is matey

http://www.woolworths.co.uk/ww_p2/product/index.jhtml?pid=50766118

or this one has 1gb ram for same price

http://www.woolworths.co.uk/ww_p2/product/index.jhtml?pid=50788631

[Clouds_mate]

the spec isnt worth £800. The one with 1gb of RAM at currys/comet (cant remember) is better

[Chris]

Yeah , just had a look at the one at Woolies and it's only 512 RAM..... I'm really looking for 1GB RAM..... I think me and the girlf are gonna go to Comet at the weekend to have a look at the one Leckie mentioned..... but keep the options coming peeps!

Cheers!!!

Chris :)

[Chris]

Here's the one from Comet: -

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=362972

Here's the one from Currys Digital: -

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0139044051.116427806 2@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccefaddjhfidlgmcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&sku=876045

What do you all think??

Chris :)

[Chris]

Or there's this one from Currys too: -

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0139044051.116427806 2@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccefaddjhfidlgmcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&sku=186712

Chris :)

[jclaydon]

Heres the link i was looking for.

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/

Theres some pretty decent offers on for the christmas period on there.

[Clouds_mate]

All have very simular spec but this..

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=362972

has a faster CPU all wouldnt be really noticable tbh tho.


Have a gander at some online reviews and see if they are any common faults with them

[Clouds_mate]

Bare with me, I have a link in my deleted items (1588 emails in there)

They sell reconidtioned laptops with a garentee.

[Chris]

All have very simular spec but this..

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=362972

has a faster CPU all wouldnt be really noticable tbh tho.


Have a gander at some online reviews and see if they are any common faults with them

I'll have e look on Ciao to see if they have them to compare.

Chris :)

[Chris]

They don't list Advent or Packard Bell on Ciao....... is there any other comparison sites they might be on?

Chris :)

[Clouds_mate]

http://www.computerbargains.co.uk/shop/customer/home.php?cat=250

[Gav]

have you tryed play.com. just had a look on they got a few. you can always get extra ram. doesent cost much these days if you look in the right places.

[Chris]

Just had a look on Play and they seem to be quite expensive for what you get!

Chris :)

[Tupps]

try www.ebuyer.com

they seem to have some good deals on just about everything

[Clouds_mate]

That link has already been given Tuppie ;)

[AdamW]

Where in the world....................PC World

[AdamW]

Love the look of the Apple Macs laptops......its all about the gloss white..

But at 1200 nicker.....can find better things to spend it on

[Chris]

Where in the world....................PC World

The only 1gb they have in our budget is the Advent one mentioned above from Currys.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1857337610.116428126 4@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciaddjhejhhfkcflgceggdhhmdgmi.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=186712&category_oid=-27751

Chris :)