13" laptop with good battery. £400

sswats · 9 Sep 2011 at 17:24

Its to replace my dead UL30A which I was happy with. That had a U2300 processor and 8+ hour battery life.

That had all the performance I need, I have a SSD drive that i was using in the Asus, so something with Sata2.
Doesn't have to be very powerful CPU wise. 3GB of ram is enough.

Budget is £400.

Scrutinize · 9 Sep 2011 at 19:22

This is easy unless you need much longer battery life,

HP Probook 4320s

XX826EA#ABU

Stock Code: W015734

Intel® Core™ i3-380M Dual Core Processor, 13.3" HD Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit, 3GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD, DVD Rewriter, 512MB ATI 5470 Graphics, Webcam Bluetooth & HDMI, 3-5 hour battery life, multi-touch pad, 2kg weight, Includes Free HP Carry Case, XX826EA#ABU - you can get the 3 year HP warranty pack off ebay for £13

£299 (after £100 cashback from HP granted)

had mine 1 month now and just submitted the cashback claim, it is built so much better than anything else for the money and then some being HP corporate / business kit (it was a £600ish machine when not discounted as well) with a brushed metal lid, palmrest & speaker fascia, solid spill resistant keyboard with minimal flex, and i can get 4hr + battery life.

cost me £17 to put an additional 4GB memory in so has 6GB in total, was quick enough on 3GB but 6GB is just better.

sswats · 9 Sep 2011 at 23:04

thanks.
Okay that's a very good choice,. But I was hoping for better battery life than that as I work offsite a lot.

Netbooks are too small to be of use..

Scrutinize · 10 Sep 2011 at 09:57

your budget is the problem. nothing worth looking at. so buy a second battery for the hp. the only alternative close to budget may be an acer timeline x but i discounted that as it is an acer

sswats · 10 Sep 2011 at 14:19

I'd be more comfortable with an Acer over HP.
HP's consistently rank bottom for laptop reliability. And I've had my fair share of headaches with them.

So which Acer specifically are you referring to?

Amp34 · 10 Sep 2011 at 16:52

Could always go a bit mad and see if you can get a (probably second hand) Dell M1330? With the 9 cell battery I used to get around 7 hours out of the thing doing just the basics and no wifi. It's a little old now but with an SSD it would fly.