Basic Laptop Advice

FishPolice · 14 Jul 2006 at 23:52

Does anyone know of any noob-friendly sites where I can get my head around the basics of laptops -or can anyone here offer some advice?
The missus is looking to get a cheapo laptop to use with SAGE accounting stuff -fancy graphics not needed in the slightest. Probably looking for something around the £250 mark so I expect she will be looking to purchase 2nd hand from fleabay etc.
Basically we need to know what models/manufacturers are good, which ones to avoid, which manufacurers cater for the cheap end of the market. That sort of thing.
Any help much appreciated

Kezmo · 15 Jul 2006 at 00:00

Id say look at acers or a dell, probably find more help/info@ http://www.notebookforums.com/

semi-pro waster · 15 Jul 2006 at 00:18

The Members Market on here can be pretty good for that sort of thing although you need 250 posts to get access now, you might be able to ask a don if they can waive that requirement as you joined quite a while ago but I don't know how strict the limit is.

Other than that I'd be looking secondhand, maybe local listings or something like that. I recently picked up a Compaq Presario 2100 from Craigslist(no idea if they have a local section near you) which is an XP-M 2400, 768mb Ram, 60gb hard drive with onboard graphics for almost exactly £250 and it would cope with SAGE fine.

daryll · 15 Jul 2006 at 00:22

Id def recommend Dell, ive never had any problems with them. You should check out the Dell outlet, you can often get yourself a bargain on there

benjo plz. · 15 Jul 2006 at 00:32

daryll said:
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Good recommendation, but carefull, the donnage aren't going to like it

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FishPolice · 15 Jul 2006 at 00:49

daryll said:
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got it thanks (now you better edit your post before you get a holiday!)