Which sub £500 laptop?

[sparkythecat]

Mrs S wants a laptop. Wants general office functions, photo editing, wireless internet and occasionally watching DVD's. Have narrowed the choice down to the ACER Aspire 5612WLMi
and the Toshiba Satellite Pro A120.

Excluding Dell, has anyone's got any better sugestions

[ThePassenger]

Novatech do a range of laptops. Mitac chassis (generally), built like tanks and keep going.

[madmat]

fujitsu siemens ones would be my recomendation there is one in the 450 region which might be worth checking out.

[mcflurry]

Toshiba recently did an offer when if your pc broke down during the 3 year warranty they would refund the warranty payments.

I guess that means they are prepared to stand by their products

[tinman0]

Personally I'd go Toshiba.

I'm stuck whether to go Toshiba next. I'd like to go back to Apple, but I rather like the new Toshiba tablets with docking stations.

[LordLanky]

I'd personally avoid the Novatech ones - seen a couple go wrong and you are obliged to go back to Novatech cos of the rebadged nature of the product. It makes it harder to solve yourself (via Google!).

Acer make some nice economical laptops - the thing to watch though is the estimated battery life - I get frustrated when these companies make a laptop that only lasts 1.5hrs at BEST! Some of the Acers run for 4hrs.

As already mentioned Toshiba's are good, and the HP (Compaq) units you can play footie with!

[LordLanky]

Just stumbled across a "Deal of the Week" for the Acer that you mention in your initial mail:
www.computershopper.co.uk/dealoftheweek/109387/acer-aspire-5612wlmi.html
£399.97

[sparkythecat]

LordLanky said:

Just stumbled across a "Deal of the Week" for the Acer that you mention in your initial mail:
www.computershopper.co.uk/dealoftheweek/109387/acer-aspire-5612wlmi.html
£399.97

Thanks for that. Think I'll be buying it.