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| Author: | forquare1 [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | <£350 Laptop |
Hi all, I'm being taken out later by my brother to find his girlfriend a new laptop. She wants to spend as little as possible, with the absolute maximum being £350. What are the sort of specs we'd be looking at for that kind of money? CPU, RAM, HDD, graphics, etc? Any guidance would be great, we're going out at about 2:30 I think... Thanks in advance, Ben |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: <£350 Laptop |
£350? Some [LIFTED] Celeron thing I expect. You'd be better off going second hand with that kind of money. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:39 am ] | |||||||||
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You're pulling my leg? PC's cost a fraction of the cost of an equivalent Mac I'm constantly told, so where are they? I need one now! 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:41 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yeah but for £350 for a laptop you're taking the piss. Especially since that's the top end of your budget. £400 would get you into low-end C2Ds at least. |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: <£350 Laptop |
I would suggest that a Netbook would be a more reasonable expectation for that budget. If you do find a laptop available at that money you will probably end up regretting it, as it will leave a lot to be desired. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: <£350 Laptop |
*sigh* OK, is this going to last? How future proof is it? I'm presuming it'll run a 64-bit OS and take at least 4GB of RAM even if it doesn't come with that much? e're looking at about 150GB hdd? Do those presumptions seem realistic? |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: <£350 Laptop |
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/lapt ... ese15.html That's not unreasonable. Remember you'll end up paying a premium in a shop. Edit: That price doesn't include the OS btw, but if you can persuade her to go with Linux… |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:52 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: <£350 Laptop | |||||||||
Thanks Jon. I know that a shop will charge more, but hopefully she won't want to buy today, only look and see (then we can get it online later). I doubt she'll go with Linux, she'll be getting any technical advice from my brother, who struggles to use a computer as it is, he won't be happy with something different, so neither will she unfortunately  Saying that, if she waited a couple of months and got Windows 7 she probably wouldn't be happy because that was different too...
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:34 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I got my girlfriend a good spec laptop for £350 with bag, AV security (AVG professional) and laptop lock from Dabs, it's more about waiting for the right time to buy and looking for the best deal http://www.dabs.com/products/hp-6735s-a ... -5GFB.html With all the accessories and postage it came in at £355 As for a cheap but decent one: http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_ ... rce=ldawin |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: <£350 Laptop |
She fell in love with a Toshiba thing, according to the specs I remember it had a single code Semphron running at about 2.5GHz, could take up to 8GB of RAM and had a 250GB hard drive, she spent a bit under £300. Although there were better laptops for her money, she liked the look of this one... |
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