What Laptop

[_Dave_]

Missus is looking for a new laptop, about £700, must have large hard drive, dvd writer etc.

Any suggestions anyone?

[UncleDave]

This looks a reasonable choice

Depends what uses she wants it for really... and that one above would only be good if 60GB hard drive is sufficient. If you post here the main use for it, gaming, dvd writing, graphics etc.. I'm sure someone can give a better idea..

Try eBay search for what you are looking for.. set prices from £500 to £750, set minimum hard drive size required, then see what you think of those. Most of the ones on eBay are actually new and come with a guarantee. And are quite a bit cheaper than the same thing from elsewhere..

You can compare prices on the bay with other online shops at www.kelkoo.co.uk

Dave.

[Mr E]

Just bought my sis an iBook. It's lurvely.

[_Dave_]

Thanks Uncle!

She's not interested in gaming, mainly music, movies and word processing etc, must have a good graphics card and wireless connectivity, will have a look on ebay although I'm not keen on spending that much on ebay after having been burnt in the past.

Cheers

[UncleDave]

From the dreaded PC World, a Reconditioned Sony

or.. Compaq from Dixons but only 40GB HDD

This looks ok but £50 over budget for 1.6Ghz

This is AMD which I would prefer over Intel, but the Graphics card is only 64 (Compared to I think all of those above)

But to be honest, for £700 as long as the seller isn't a scoundrel and you avoid Packard Bell etc.. you can't go wrong

Dave.

[nightdriver]

I have just bought a Compaq M2357EA from PC World. I'm quite impressed with it. 60GB hard drive, 1.6Ghz AMD 64bit processor, 1024MB Ram, wireless, etc etc. The screen is fantastic, All for £699.
Defintely reccomend it.

[ATG]

_Dave_ said:

Thanks Uncle! She's not interested in gaming, mainly music, movies and word processing etc, must have a good graphics card and wireless connectivity, will have a look on ebay although I'm not keen on spending that much on ebay after having been burnt in the past. Cheers

Dell D800 went on e-bay tonight for £420 (512MB RAM, 40GB HDD, 1.6GHz Pentium M) so its not going to bend spacetime, but it has a very pretty 15.5 inch 1920X1200 display, poetically dubbed a WUXGA.

[dern]

I bought a dell inspiron 6000 laptop for about that money which is excellent. You could delete some of the options I chose and get a better graphics card and stay in budget I think.

Mark

[loafer]

I've used this site in the past and they seem pretty cheap this one looks like a good deal Link