laptop advice please

[craigw]

Hi guys,

Can you pls help a frind of mine. he needs the following:

needs a laptop, minimum 512 ram 2.4+ ghz pentium rather than celeron 40+ gb hard drive 533+ mhz fsm, wireless, cd and dvd re writer,

any suggestions & any goodm deals you know of/sites to check pls, thx.

[craigw]

come on kiddos, I was counting on you......

[shadytree]

How about a Sony Vaio ?

[GregE240]

Craig, sorry mate I haven't done pre sales for a while now, but a couple of recommendations for brands:

Toshiba are very good, as are IBM. Don't let the fact IBM made some Thinkpads that were real nails afew years ago cloud your mates judgement, they really are very good now.

Dell are good too. Their after sales is excellent.

In my opinion, HP have gone downhill a bit. This Compaq EVO I'm using here is awful.

Sony I can't comment on, not exactly a mainstream player I don't think. Style over substance perhaps? Maybe thats a bit harsh.

[Plotloss]

Tosh or IBM I would suggest.

The BMW and Mercedes of laptops...

[craigw]

thanks gents, will pass it on.

[Big T]

Plotloss said:

Tosh or IBM I would suggest. The BMW and Mercedes of laptops...

Second that...since we went Compaq EVO, they have caused more probs than the Thinkpads...Can't go wrong with the Toshiba's either.

How about DELL for a good price? No experience with them though.

[dans]

Hi Craig - There is a samsung P28 which is exclusive to www.microanvika.co.uk (or their shops on Tottenham Ct Rd) it has a pentium M 1.6, 40GB 512MB 15" screen 802.11g etc and it is only £799 including VAT from them. it is a hell of a lot of laptop from a known brand for not too much money. it is not a pretty as some of them, but I have bought 6 this week and all seem to be great. good luck