Laptop buying advice needed.

[Manchester1894]

Have a Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop thats falling apart. Keyboard has a key missing so using a usb keyboard, CD laser has gone so cannot transfer CD's to walkman, takes ages to boot ("C: volume is dirty" appears.), power lead is dodgy at the back. Screen also occasionally goes blank(closing laptop for 20 seconds and opening resolves this)

I need a new one.

Spec at the moment is: 15.4" Intel Pentium M 1.80GHz XP Home Ed. 512 RAM. 60G Hard Drive. That cost me £550 in May '06

Dont have a budget but was thinking £600ish. Or more if I can find 0% finance for 12/24months.

Cheers guys/gals

 

[pee dubya]

Laptops are actually coming down in price quite a bit recently, you should be able to get a decent spec one if you look around a bit. Have a look on ebuyer or something, they're usually quite cheap.

 

[Manchester1894]

Ebuyer? I'll take a look.. used it before at all?

 

[pee dubya]

Nope, but i've heard people recommend it, there's a forum on the site aswell if you want to ask people who know a bit more than i do.

 

[Manchester1894]

Cheers P.D.

 

[shinpads]

have a look on www.dabs.com they have some great laptop deals on there, have used them many times and never had a problem with them.

 

[Clarkey311]

Acer 5920G is quiet a weapon at £450

 

[smeeagain]

dont go after the highest spec ,for ram gig processer etc
instead go after the best built one you can find,after all they wear out
buttons etc mine cracked across the case where i kept pickin it up !
so get the strongest one you can find

 

[Wheelsy]

Asus EEEPC 1000. Do yourself a favour.

 

[GREATMADMAN]

Yeah the Asus EEE PC's are fantastic, i'm saving up for on for college. Try www.pcspecialist.co.uk, they're pretty reasonable.

 

[Niall Quinn's Disco Pants]

Buy an iBook, once you've tried an apple you'll never go back to pc's. Bit dearer than a pc, but you'll struggle to get a virus or pop ups anywhere near them!!!

http://www.gbmdt.co.uk/

Try the above link, they do interest free over 12 months and offer great after sales service.

 

[Kaiser Soze]

Dell XPS M1350, paid 500.00 with very high spec including fingerprint recognition, built in webcam, bluetooth etc etc..

In colour of your choice too.. very happy with it.

 

[Knight1979]

I hate Mac snobs. Then I bought a powerbook 3 years ago. I will never touch a PC again.

 

[C_T_I_D]

Get one which is very heavy because if you log onto bluemoon and read some of the posts on here you may wish to throw it out the window!