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Old 16-09-2007, 12:48:09 PM     #7 (permalink)
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In my opinion a cheap, or under specced laptop, is always a false economy. Compared to a few years ago laptops are much better value, so why not consider spending a little more for something that will probably be used every day.

Regarding the one you found:

512MB is not enough memory for Vista, go for 1GB minimum.

What's the video card? If you're playing games, the video card is important, I couldn't see what it was, but it's probably not up to the job for high frame rate games.

Then there's customer support. What's Evesham's like?

I like Toshiba laptops, and for not a lot more money, you can get a much better machine, e.g.

Toshiba Satellite A100-065 - Core 2 Duo T5200 1.6 GHz - 15.4" TFT £457.97

For good places to buy laptops, see my site at:

http://www.wirelesslaptops.co.uk/

and the links on the right.

The Toshiba range is available from laptopsdirect and warrant serious consideration IMO.

As usual though DYOR.

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