Author Topic: Laptops (Read 4321 times)

zpyder · **on:** March 04, 2011, 18:06:18 PM

Laptops

on: March 04, 2011, 18:06:18 PM

A colleague at work is looking to replace her 6 year old laptop. Max budget is around £400. Wondering if anyone could shed any light on what are the best deals/models currently at that kind of price range?

Pete · **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2011, 19:06:06 PM

Re: Laptops

Reply #1 on: March 04, 2011, 19:06:06 PM

Acer or HP

Ebugger were doing an Asus dc Intel with 4gb of ram a while back, dunno if they still got it but it's a nice laptop.

XEntity · **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2011, 19:07:43 PM

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Reply #2 on: March 04, 2011, 19:07:43 PM

Personally I'd say get a Dell Inspiron 15 i3 £429 I know a few peple who have ended up with these now, but I am a Dell fanboy

Dmx Dimension is the best place to find all the deals Dell have on...

http://www.dmxdimension.com/dell-uk/inspiron-15-deals-codes-coupons/

XEntity · **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2011, 19:24:16 PM

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Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 19:24:16 PM

Also this has just come up on HUKD, looks a pretty sweet deal to me!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-g62-b50sa-15-6-laptop-red-intel-i3-4gb-ram-500gb-hdd-only-386-99-dixons-onlin/890474

And HP laptops are pretty good from my experience

Eggtastico · **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2011, 20:00:15 PM

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Reply #4 on: March 04, 2011, 20:00:15 PM

I was going to say anything with 500gb & 4gb of ram if you can.. which is exactly what ^^ does

Rivkid · **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2011, 20:48:45 PM

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Reply #5 on: March 04, 2011, 20:48:45 PM

At risk of a flame war ....

I absolutely have to recommend against Dell (despite using a Dell screen, Dell E6400 laptop and Dell keyboard to write this....)

All our work kit is Dell (we moved from Acer and Toshiba for political reasons...) and the fail rate stats went through the roof! I mean literally - we're talking 150% higher than before. We pay for NBD 3 year cover and we had to start getting the users to phone Dell directly to raise call outs because we were spending all our lives on the phone to them! Thats been across 3 models so far - D630's, E6400's and the new E6410's (which I must admit are very quick!).

Personally I'd always buy HP - I've never had one fail yet.

XEntity · **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2011, 21:26:54 PM

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Reply #6 on: March 04, 2011, 21:26:54 PM

I must admit that the D630s are a little crap, but then they are old!

I'm on a Vostro 1700 and not had one problem with it, I'm surprised you are having problems with the E6400s, they are quite sturdy and not had any problems with those at work?

Never had any major problems with Dell kit, but good to get an idea on a larger scale, never had experience with a large deployment of HP kit

Binary Shadow · **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2011, 21:39:50 PM

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Reply #7 on: March 04, 2011, 21:39:50 PM

Id recommend HP and lenovo

solid kit

XEntity · **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2011, 21:45:35 PM

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Reply #8 on: March 04, 2011, 21:45:35 PM

I've heard that the Lenovo kit isn't what it used to be when it was IBM (My T21 is still working and in use by my grandad!)

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