Laptop Advice

[Rob P]

I am after a laptop for £800-£1000 for a family member. He basically wants something which is small and light, has a CD-RW and a good battery life.

Because its only for occasional use and he has a good home system the power of the machine is not too important.

Can any PH'ers recommend a good model or offer any advice?

[tvradict]

My girlfriend just bought a Dell Inspiron thing for about £700. Everything you specced! Good battery life too apparently.

Think it was £741 inc a printer!!

[mustard]

Try these guys...www.itcsales.co.uk/acatalog/Laptops___Notebooks.html

Good prices and advice

I bought one of their factory refurb Dells and been very pleased with it


>> Edited by mustard on Saturday 31st January 11:24

[Rob P]

I am amazed at how many websites selling laptops dont tell you the weight/dimensions!

So far Tiny have a good system which is very light and thin for £800

Dell Lattitude X300 have a dogs balls system at £1300, only weighs 1.3kg...about a third of the rest

[nighthawkEP3]

I also bought a dell inspiron lappy the other week to use for sat nav and picture storage when out with my digicam.

Have now decided to use it in a fuller capacity as a second machine with a wireless 54G network .

The inspiron 1100 isn't the lightest lappy around, but seeing as I'll not carry it round that much it's no problem and it's certainly not the heaviest one i've used.

battery life is around 4 hours in optimum conditions.

under 700 delivered

[Andy M]

You should definitely check out an Apple iBook.

www.apple.com/uk/ibook/

[Rob P]

Thanks for the advice guys, choice has been made....dell have got my business

[agent006]

Rob P said:

So far Tiny have a good system which is very light and thin for £800

NO. No No No No No No No No No No No.

and no again.

[Rob P]

agent006 said:

Rob P said: So far Tiny have a good system which is very light and thin for £800 NO. No No No No No No No No No No No. and no again.

Dont worry, saw it on the flesh at it was crap!

Strange that no-one likes them but we have a old Tiny desktop which has lasted 5 years no trouble at all.