What Reasonably price laptop would you recommend

[Viking Warrior]

IM looking to buy a reasonably priced lap top for some one as a present

 

Anybody like to recommend a particular make or model. There seems to be a fair few out there. Im looking for something with a minimum 160GB HD 3g of ram etc Vista home premium

 

 

Places like pc world have a few tosh satellites, but they do not look that robust.

 

 

So your advice warmly welcomed

[saint_stevo]

Can you give us an idea of what it is likely to be used for? Gaming etc?

 

Price limit? Can you put a number on it rather than 'reasonably priced' as that is open to interpretation.

 

usually a few kicking about on http://www.hotukdeals.com

[saint_stevo]

Would you consider a refurb?

 

Some cracking deals on em

 

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0282089449.1229029898@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccckadeflkmejdjcflgceggdhhmdfoh.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=606741&category_oid=-28487

 

for example, a big fan of HP laptops also

Edited 11 December, 2008 by saint_stevo

[St Landrew]

Aldi are doing a couple of laptops at excellent prices. If you're worried about their quality, they hold 3 year guarantees, and are certainly NOT refurbished items that may have already gone wrong once or twice.

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

how about this!http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?Description=UK_CL_Laptops+-+Toshiba&CatIds=21797,35750,90634&webid=397643&affixedcode=WW+

[mdearlove]

Yep the Aldi Medion laptops are very well built and get rave reviews from the PC mags.

Their current ofering is this one - http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/s2210/uk/flash.html although if you are buying for a male they might not appreciate the crystal butterfly on it!

 

MEDION® AKOYA® S2210. The dresscode

for the season.

 

Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor T3200

(2,0 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cache, FSB 667 MHz)

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium

with new Media Center user interface

(incl. Service Pack 1)

Swarovski style - over 300 original

Swarovski crystals embedded in the notebook lid

Huge memory - 3 GB DDR2 SDRAM

Massive storage space - 320 GB

[Viking Warrior]

Thanks to those who have responded.

Its for a female, I doubt she will use it for gaming apart from patience type card games.

 

Cost price between 300 -400 pounds

 

Im not keen on the fujistu semiems range. I have heard good and bad comments on dell and HP

[saint_stevo]

HP are awesome. Lovely laptops, nice and robust.

 

Also, i have configured and played with about 250 dell laptops in the past year and not had any major problems with any of them either.

 

You hear good and bad things about everything! Some people just like to moan

[saint_stevo]

Fixed up some-ones Medion laptop yesterday, looks cheap and nasty, plasticy and no frills, but ran like a dream, 4gb RAM, 200gb HDD and the bloke got change out of 300 notes. If your not a ponce and dont care how it looks, then could be a good shout.

 

Shame i am and i do

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

Thanks to those who have responded.

Its for a female, I doubt she will use it for gaming apart from patience type card games.

 

Cost price between 300 -400 pounds

 

Im not keen on the fujistu semiems range. I have heard good and bad comments on dell and HP

Picked up a Toshiba L300D-12L for £259.99 for my son for Xmas at Staples (last one so could'nt resist) Here's some specs!

Toshiba Satellite L300D-12L - Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 1.9 GHz - 15.4" TFT

Dimensions (WxDxH) 36.2 cm x 26.7 cm x 3.8 cm

Weight 2.5 kg

Localisation English

System Type Notebook

Built-in Devices Stereo speakers, wireless LAN aerial

Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 / 1.9 GHz ( Dual-Core )

Cache Memory 1 MB - L2 Cache

RAM 1 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM - 667 MHz ( 1 x 1 GB )

Hard Drive 160 GB - Serial ATA-150

Optical Storage DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM

Display 15.4" TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) - TruBrite

Graphics Controller ATI Radeon X1250

Memory Allocation Technology Shared Video Memory (UMA)

Audio Output Sound card

Telecom Fax / modem - 56 Kbps

Networking Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g

Notebook Camera Integrated

Input Device Keyboard, touchpad

Power AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )

Battery Lithium Ion

Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic

Manufacturer Warranty 1 year warranty

[Essruu]

Picked up a Toshiba L300D-12L for £259.99 for my son for Xmas at Staples (last one so could'nt resist) Here's some specs!

 

 

That's a great help for him then.... post some specs and be all smug about your purchase, even though it's not going to help him one bit.

 

: r o l l :

[saint_stevo]

why not get an Apple product?

 

After a simple re-mortgage, you should be able to afford one

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

That's a great help for him then.... post some specs and be all smug about your purchase, even though it's not going to help him one bit.

 

: r o l l :

Last one in that store numpty! Why dont you GFY Apple fanboy!