What laptop please- lower end of the price scales....?
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Hi - I am moving house next week and wont have broadband sorted for a while I guess.
I therefore want to buy a laptop so my wife can go to coffee shops and surf the web looking for houses and checking her emails etc... We will probably also use it for watching DVDs on holidays.
I am not bothered about Vista. I cant stand slow machines. I would prefer a smaller machine. I can put it through my own LTD co and so will save on VAT and it will be tax deductable. BUT I dont really want to spend that much on it but at the same time dont want to end up with something rubbishy. I dont really want a refurbed machine etc ... I have a Toshiba for work which is ok but it feels cheap and gimmicky. I have had an IBM which was ok - straight and sensible. MACs look interesting but they seem to start at £700ish. I guess I would prefer to spend £400 plus.
Anyone got any recommendations - either a machine or a spec (eg processor)?
thanks !!! Gary
I therefore want to buy a laptop so my wife can go to coffee shops and surf the web looking for houses and checking her emails etc... We will probably also use it for watching DVDs on holidays.
I am not bothered about Vista. I cant stand slow machines. I would prefer a smaller machine. I can put it through my own LTD co and so will save on VAT and it will be tax deductable. BUT I dont really want to spend that much on it but at the same time dont want to end up with something rubbishy. I dont really want a refurbed machine etc ... I have a Toshiba for work which is ok but it feels cheap and gimmicky. I have had an IBM which was ok - straight and sensible. MACs look interesting but they seem to start at £700ish. I guess I would prefer to spend £400 plus.
Anyone got any recommendations - either a machine or a spec (eg processor)?
thanks !!! Gary
Novatech do a range of cheapy laptops... built quality on their LOW LOW end ones isn't that bad. Generic innards, generic replacement parts as far as laptops go you understand. Comes with Vista of your choice or... blank and a driver CD. Drop a copy of XP SP2 on it (legitimate copy obviously), feed it the drivers and bingo.
Dell, cheap n' cheerful, as generic as a Dell
Might want to get the NBD warranty or use your LTD to screw the VAT back and try to aim further up the range (say slap bang in the middle of their business range).
Both of these options are new obviously.
Hunt around ebay, I seem to remember seeing an old IBM T40 floating around for £200ish. Obviously no real warranty and the T40 can be twitchy (in my experience of the work issued one, even with my XP build and raw drivers) but it'll survive happily as an e-mail machine... get about 4 - 5 hours out the battery as well.
Dell, cheap n' cheerful, as generic as a Dell
Might want to get the NBD warranty or use your LTD to screw the VAT back and try to aim further up the range (say slap bang in the middle of their business range). Both of these options are new obviously.
Hunt around ebay, I seem to remember seeing an old IBM T40 floating around for £200ish. Obviously no real warranty and the T40 can be twitchy (in my experience of the work issued one, even with my XP build and raw drivers) but it'll survive happily as an e-mail machine... get about 4 - 5 hours out the battery as well.
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