Cheapo Laptop

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Anyone bought one? or something similar around the £300 mark?

Just need something for the kids to play games and use MSN

 

[Whois-Search]

PCworld doing £299 at the moment:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/summer-sale-laptops

At least you can take it back there.....

 

[deconstruction]

i am very wary of cheap laptops.

someone in my office bought one for £350. better spec than my 2-3 year old laptop overall. but mine still runs much better.

could just be theirs is full of cr*p and needs a good clean who knows.....

 

[FC Domains]

I just bought 22 laptops from Dell at £229 (+VAT so that's £269).
They all worked just fine. Vostro 1000
(1GB RAM, 60GB HD, 1280x800 15.4", 54g, AMD CPU, Windows XP)

 

[deconstruction]

good to know.

what do you use them for? just day to day office, email etc?

i suppose it doesn't help i hammer mine with photoshop and a million other apps all open at the same time :mrgreen:

 

[uglygit]

the evesham does'nt say what type of speed the celeron is running at, I would go for a dell, for £399 they have a duo core laptop (this is customisable as well)

 

[accelerator]

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.

Rgds

Accelerator

 

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thanks all for the feedback