Best WM7 budget laptop?

[Stig]

As title really. Would be handy to have integrated webcam/speakers, wifi a must of course, but doesn't have to be massively heavyweight performance wise. Mostly used for web surfing/email/skype etc.

Would like it to run WM7 (not sure why really as everything else I have is XP Pro - but maybe I just fancy a change )

Any recommends gratefully received!

Edited by Stig on Thursday 25th February 10:56

[lestag]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/822770#pr...
something like this or tosh or HP
dual core, 3gb ram min, win7 premium
i just recommended something similar to this to a client - HP DV6-2114sa 15.6" Home Computing laptop
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.js...
if you use youtube or similar a lot or DVD video i'd punt for this

[TheD]

Dell are doing the 1564 for £398. It has the i3 cpu and 3 gb of ram

[Stig]

Should have been more specific - it's for the wife so trying to keep budget to sub £300

[lestag]

Stig said:

Should have been more specific - it's for the wife so trying to keep budget to sub £300

bad husband!

i really hesitate to recommend anything that is not dual processor and 3GB RAM minimum, preferably with a 512MB dedicated Graphics card.
Mainly because:
of the way the internet is going "media rich", dedicated video card recommended
1GB RAM to get Win 7 going and multiple tabs in browser can kill another 0.5 - 1GB
dual core , as most processes cannot use multi core and that way if one process goes 100% you won't really notice, but will be able to easily kill it off

of course if you are going to replace it in the next year or two with a new one then a single core 3GB with shared video RAM will do just fine

[pmanson]

Have a look at the Compaq 610/615.

I have one for work and a 2nd for home use.