Which cheap laptop?

[thekirbyfake]

Looking to buy a cheap (£500ish?) laptop.

Mainly for surfing and storage not important as I has an external hard drive.

Quick, small, light. Must have wireless. Bluetooth preferable.

Any ideas?


ETA - this seems dirt cheap. Any opinions?

Edited by thekirbyfake on Sunday 2nd July 17:39

[jazzybee]

Stretch to a Centrino if possible, and at least 512Mb Ram. check out www.ebuyer.com for some good deals. You could get a laptop with 256Mb ram and buy an upgrade memory chip - do the upgrade yourself - very straightforward.

[KingRichard]

Just bought a Compaq Presrio from PC world for £799, but that needs to be used for work and hold a database on it etc... so was a bit different. Couple of chaps at the office have Dells which I think were about this level and seem ok, although one guy has a real pain getting his to recognise the wireless networks in office and then to recognise Blueyonder at home.

[KingRichard]

But I'm really not a techie at all, so probably best to ignore my advice

[wedge girl]

KingRichard said:

Just bought a Compaq Presrio.

I've got the V4000 £499 - does the job for me.

[Mikej]

If I'm reading it correctly it's not really WIFI enabled as it says WIFI is via USB

[KingRichard]

wedge girl said:

KingRichard said:

Just bought a Compaq Presrio.

I've got the V4000 £499 - does the job for me.

Err, hang on *looks under lappy for model number...*

V5000... so pretty much the same i'd wager (yes, wager is my latest word I'm trying to use more in conversation)