What laptop?
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Luca1973

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12,044 posts

281 months

Monday 5th March 2007
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Very simple. I've got about £800 to spend on a laptop.

Will be used for web and the odd game.

Anyone got recommendations?

Been looking at Toshibas and Acers.

Cheers,

L

mattyb123

2,206 posts

241 months

Monday 5th March 2007
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I would give acer a miss - toshibas are really rather well constructed though

madras

329 posts

240 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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Luca1973 said:
Very simple. I've got about £800 to spend on a laptop.

Will be used for web and the odd game.

Anyone got recommendations?

Been looking at Toshibas and Acers.

Cheers,

L


no competition : Lenovo N100. get the one with the Core Duo and nVidia graphics card. has 1680x1050 res on a widescreen too - awesome. I just bought two. get 2G of ram as well.

bga

8,134 posts

282 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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madras said:


no competition : Lenovo N100. get the one with the Core Duo and nVidia graphics card. has 1680x1050 res on a widescreen too - awesome. I just bought two. get 2G of ram as well.

For £800?

madras

329 posts

240 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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bga said:
madras said:


no competition : Lenovo N100. get the one with the Core Duo and nVidia graphics card. has 1680x1050 res on a widescreen too - awesome. I just bought two. get 2G of ram as well.

For £800?


no for £600

bga

8,134 posts

282 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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madras said:
bga said:
madras said:


no competition : Lenovo N100. get the one with the Core Duo and nVidia graphics card. has 1680x1050 res on a widescreen too - awesome. I just bought two. get 2G of ram as well.

For £800?


no for £600

interesting, mates rates or something you would like to share for the greater good

.Mark

11,104 posts

307 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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Possibly DABS.com I know I got a great deal on a Lenovo from them for my Mum. yes

s27

501 posts

315 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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www.aldi-stores.co.uk/images/data_product/134191018245df1083aecad.pdf

What are the views on this then, appears good value.

SP


Edited by s27 on Tuesday 6th March 10:05

madras

329 posts

240 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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bga said:
madras said:
bga said:
madras said:


no competition : Lenovo N100. get the one with the Core Duo and nVidia graphics card. has 1680x1050 res on a widescreen too - awesome. I just bought two. get 2G of ram as well.

For £800?


no for £600

interesting, mates rates or something you would like to share for the greater good


yes dabs. www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4CFJ&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=lenovo+n100&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

get this memory for it, cheaper, take it to 2G (max)
www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4B16&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=ddr+ii+sdram&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=4294963789&v=2#infoarea
or just get one of them and take it to 1.5G, both dimm slots are on the back for easy access. has built in web cam, and bluetooth too. And 256MB nVidia graphics card. I think it says only 64MB (and no it's not robbing memory from the 2G installed either)

core duo 2 also available for about 200 more I think, not worth it. Same with the R60, almost same spec but about 200£ moe and no widescreen high res display. IT's a BARGAIN, snap it up!

Luca1973

Original Poster:

12,044 posts

281 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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Thanks for the replies so far chaps. Any more thoughts?

bga

8,134 posts

282 months

Tuesday 6th March 2007
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madras said:
bga said:
madras said:
bga said:
madras said:


no competition : Lenovo N100. get the one with the Core Duo and nVidia graphics card. has 1680x1050 res on a widescreen too - awesome. I just bought two. get 2G of ram as well.

For £800?


no for £600

interesting, mates rates or something you would like to share for the greater good


yes dabs. www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4CFJ&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=lenovo+n100&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

get this memory for it, cheaper, take it to 2G (max)
www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=4B16&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=ddr+ii+sdram&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=4294963789&v=2#infoarea
or just get one of them and take it to 1.5G, both dimm slots are on the back for easy access. has built in web cam, and bluetooth too. And 256MB nVidia graphics card. I think it says only 64MB (and no it's not robbing memory from the 2G installed either)

core duo 2 also available for about 200 more I think, not worth it. Same with the R60, almost same spec but about 200£ moe and no widescreen high res display. IT's a BARGAIN, snap it up!

cool, thanks!

Luca1973

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12,044 posts

281 months

Wednesday 7th March 2007
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Going for this HP unless anyones got any reasons not to.

www.microanvika.com/laptops-notebooks-and-computing/product.asp?TXT=INFO&PNO=HEW14723

Cheers

madras

329 posts

240 months

Wednesday 7th March 2007
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it's got a smaller screen with lower resolution, slower front side bus for the cpu (533Mhz - so your 667Mhz memory wont run at that), only 1MB of level 1 cache and it's £200 more with the same 2G ram, says it's only got 128MB graphics card too.

has got a larger hard drive and it looks nicer than the lenovo though -doesn't look like a bad buy. I've never liked compaq/hp laptops, I think IBM Thinkpads/lenovo's are far better built and this lenovo seems to have pretty good build quality.