£2500 to spend on a Laptop - Advice Please

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I have a budget of £2.5K for a laptop, which seems overkill so If I can spend far less then great, I'm looking for the fastest spec possible with a 17inch screen.

What do you guys suggest?
 
Are you gaming? If not a £600-£700 17" will be more than plenty, and have 2GB, 2ghz dual core Intel 2, and 160GB+ HD. £2500 on a laptop if you're not gaming is just a waste of money.

I like Acer's, because of the cost/spec, there's the Gemstore Aspire 77xx line. £700 inc vat gets you this

Product Description - Acer Aspire 7720 - Core 2 Duo T7300 - 17" TFT
Dimensions (WxDxH) - 40.4 cm x 29.8 cm x 4.3 cm
Weight - 3.6 kg
Localisation - United Kingdom
Platform Technology - Intel Centrino Duo
System Type - Notebook
Built-in Devices - Stereo speakers, subwoofer, wireless LAN aerial, Bluetooth aerial
Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 ( Dual-Core )
Cache Memory - 4 MB - L2 Cache
RAM - 2 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM ( 2 x 1 GB )- Low cost double memory offer, call for details!
Card Reader - 5 in 1
Hard Drive - 160 GB - Serial ATA-150
Hard Drive (2nd) - 160 GB - Serial ATA-150
Optical Storage - HD DVD-ROM - integrated
Display - 17" TFT active matrix 1440 x 900 ( WXGA+ ) - 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
Graphics Controller - ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 - 256 MB
Audio Output - Sound card
Telecom - Fax / modem - 56 Kbps
Networking - Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n (draft), Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
Wireless NIC - Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Notebook Camera - Integrated - 0.3 Megapixel
Input Device - Keyboard, touchpad, 4-way scroll button
Power - AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Battery - Lithium Ion
Operating System - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Manufacturer Warranty - 1 year warranty
Acer Aspire 7720 Gemstone Laptop - LX.AK10U.037
 
Dell Vostro 1700.

Take a look on Dell's site, spec one up for your needs.

Do you want to game on it?
 
I've not looked at laptop prices for a few years, I'm frankly amazed by how much cheaper they are now even for what is a high end system. I'll take a look at more reasonable priced ones suggested above and put the money elsewhere.


Thanks guys!
 
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Dell Inspiron 1720 may be worth a look too - you can get some really nice colour choices on those which make it a bit more unique.
 
sepulchre said:
I've not looked at laptop prices for a few years, I'm frankly amazed by how much cheaper they are now even for what is a high end system. I'll take a look at more reasonable priced ones suggested above and put the money elsewhere.


Thanks guys!
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The Dell Vostro 1500 was £330 including del + vat.

Core 2 1.6ghz
160GB HD
2GB RAM
15" screen

More than enough for the normal user. Crazy prizes. Wouldn't touch Dell with a barge pole though.
 
badbob said:
The Dell Vostro 1500 was £330 including del + vat.

Core 2 1.6ghz
160GB HD
2GB RAM
15" screen
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LOL, Thread started with a £2,500 Laptop recommendation, and here we have a £330 Qwidder!.

I'm not sure how much you'd have to pay, but I would try and get one with a Hard drive spin of 7200, and definitlley 2 Gigs ram. As for GFX card(S) last time i looked into "gaming" laptops, (2 years or so ago) the GFX card was fixed, unmovable. What about todays laptops?, more flexible in their approach to GFX card, and the possibility of upgrading them?.


£2,500 is a lot of money, but a XSL8-X6800 Rock will set you back £3,300:eek:


~Ant
 
LOL, Thread started with a £2,500 Laptop recommendation, and here we have a £330 Qwidder!.
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If you're not gaming, then little point spending £2500 though? ;-) I wouldn't go as low as a Celeron, but you cannot deny that a Intel Core 2 1.6-2ghz with 2GB of RAM is stonking fast.
 
badbob said:
but you cannot deny that a Intel Core 2 1.6-2ghz with 2GB of RAM is stonking fast.
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there is no mainsteam computer in the world faster than a person. hence they are all slow...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-032-DE

LT-032-DE_200.jpg


fastest laptop on OCUK, it seems via toms hardware, fastest laptop CPU.. soo pretty good bet.. wouldnt want to post non-OCUK links sorry
 
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