Best time to buy a laptop?

[saxodan]

Right im getting a new laptop for uni

I have £400-500 to spend saved up.

Do I wait until September to buy one or do I take advantage of all these summer deals?

dan

[Baz]

wait till Christmas sale lol

[saxodan]

wait till Christmas sale lol

And miss 3 months of uni work.. lol good thinking

[boz]

dosnt really matter mate. you can get some cracking latops for pritty cheap. they are out of date as soon as you buy it lol
a new better one allways comes out a week or so later. sods law

[Tupps]

Wait till around august time mate.....gives you a month to get all your stuff loaded on

Keep an eye out for bargains though

[xsmile_be_happyx]

id buy one now, so that you have it :P

[mark16v]

Think currys have the usual Bank Holiday deals, E-Buyer (not E-Bay) is a good place for cheap Acer Laptops for around your budget, make sure it has the new Vista not the older Windows matey ;)

[bullit]

i bought mine the other week. toshiba equium.

[CampDavid]

August.

Buying early is for chumps

[Matt_e]

i'd wait till nearer the time

[saxodan]

id buy one now, so that you have it :P

will be full of porn by sepetember time ...

lol
think I will wait until August and get a DELL

[xsmile_be_happyx]

lol use your computer for the porn ;)

[saxodan]

lol use your computer for the porn ;)

porno on the move is more appealing..
lol

need to get en external hdd too to store all music and pics etc

[xsmile_be_happyx]

suppose ahh well, still buy one early ;)

[Natalie]

I bought mine at around this time of year before I started uni. Touch wood it's still going 4 years later. It will probably break now lol

[Hopcraft]

Mac Book End Of

[Easty]

be careful. My mum bought a new laptop for £379 from currys, she only uses it for surfing the net and the odd bit of typing.

It came pre-loaded with vista, and it was so slow it was laughable.. took 2 mins to open up IE...

Put XP Pro on it now, and it flies. It's a Celeron 1.3 GHZ, with 512mb RAM... YES, i know its well underspecced for vista, but why do they install it when it blatently won't run.

Just a warning :)

[bullit]

Buying early is for chumps

sales mean nothing to me

[Hanuman]

go pc world website, click refurbed laptops, i bought a MINT SPEC ONE

1.8 intel core duo so farrrr superior to all these intel4 3ghz n what not
1gig ram
160gig hd
dvd re writer
graphics card
1 year warrant
NEVER BEEN USED!!
allfor 360 beat that!!

played fm07 in lightninnnnn speed

refurbed ones from pc world, currys, commet are the way to go if u find a good spec one with a new processor like a core duo(only just older than core2) but alotttt better thaneverything else bar core 2

and the refurbed doesnt mean old faulty old returned it justmeans the laptops they never sold and i confirmed this so ur gettin a brand new laptop, makes senes... do it

[Kevvv]

PC world were advertisin a Toshiba Vista ready Laptop with 1gb ram and 80gb Hd, for 399. Had a 1.8 ghz core duo as well, top buy imo.

[saxodan]

Mac Book End Of

Work on Macs, why pay over the odds when I wont use half the features?

Better of buying a mac mini.. plus most of the networking stuff I do wil not be copatible etc etc

be careful. My mum bought a new laptop for £379 from currys, she only uses it for surfing the net and the odd bit of typing.

It came pre-loaded with vista, and it was so slow it was laughable.. took 2 mins to open up IE...

Put XP Pro on it now, and it flies. It's a Celeron 1.3 GHZ, with 512mb RAM... YES, i know its well underspecced for vista, but why do they install it when it blatently won't run.

Just a warning :)

I know a thing or two about pcs, wouldent buy anthing without 1gb or Ram and its not all about the processor, things like fsb and leve 3 cache are importannt

just wanting to know the best time of year for cheap prices

[Ste]

Usually at about 8am - 9am is the best time...


Mac for laptop imo and just put XP on it as a second OS. And 800 quid for the one with the decent CPU but smaller HDD Mid range one.

January is best time.