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Anyone recommend a decent laptop?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by bon300187, Feb 15, 2008.

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    I'm thinking of getting a new laptop, my budget would probably be around the £400-£500 ($1000) region.

    Can anyone recommend a decent make/model or deal that's on at the moment.

    Richard
     
    bon300187, Feb 15, 2008 IP
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    dairyman Notable Member

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    To get value for money and economy, the dell note books are good. Go to dell site do the configuration yourself:)
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Yeap I would agree, go for Dell for no frills no thrills laptop that are value for money. If you are looking for something for fanciful of course there is always Apple, Fujitsu and Toshiba also made great and light laptops.
     
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    To be honest it be used for mainly work purposes so I don't need all the fancy things. Just need it for office/dreamweaver/photoshop and all of the other applications I use on a day to day basis.

    I will take a look at dell's website to see if anything catches my eye.

    Thanks
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Another one that comes into my mind, no frills no thrills but with everything built in would be Acer notebooks.

     
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    onlineravi Banned

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    Yep you shuld look at something which is of value to you . When you are going to invest some $$$ in that thing , make sure you have the best thing from the market..

    well , i would recommend Dell as they have good laptops
     
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    I think the one I have at home at the moment is an acer, seems to be good but could do with more memory I think.

    What do you all think of windows vista? I haven't actually ever used it yet.
     
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    Acer Laptops are nice built , now every laptop or PC is coming bundled with Vista , so can't say much about it as I have not used it till now even though my friends use it and I have full system configuration needed for the same.but still do not want to use it ..
     
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    I have heard a lot of mixed reviews about vista, if I was to make a choice I would say I've heard more negative comments opposed to positive which puts me off upgrading.
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    You won't have much choice if you are buying a new laptop, all comes with Vista, I don't think they will load XP for you.

     
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    I know, thats why I am in two minds of what to do. I suppose soon everyone will be using vista regardless whether they want to or not :D
     
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    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    If you are not in a hurry, no point upgrading, computer technology changes too fast, a few months down the road, a new generation and faster and better processors at cheaper prices. Also by then more Vista bugs would be iron out.

     
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    I probably will end up doing that, at the moment my laptop is ok for what I need to do. Can just get a little slow when I try to multi-task with it :cool:
     
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    Maybe ThinkPad X300 will be the best laptop but it will be around $2,700 -_-
     
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    I don't think I will be paying that much on a laptop for what I need it for. Especially in this industry, today's brand new laptops only last a few months before they are outdated or in need of upgrades :D
     
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    I have DELL INSPIRON 1520, with 256 nividia card dedicated, 2gb ram, 1.5ghz c2d, and it works great! Even for gaming. RECOMMENDED.
     
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