Best £700 laptop

jonnyc90

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I'm looking to buy a laptop for some school and university work and other stuff like surfing the net. I don't want to use it for gaming or anything, but DVDs probably. Just wondered if there are any deals or laptops to look out for this time of year.

Got about £700 to spend, but can stretch either way.

Thanks, JonnyC90
 
You could pick up a nice Dell xps1530/1730 for that kind of price range. The rock laptops look very nice as well and come with decent 3 year warranties to boot.
It might be worth waiting until late january for the revised Santa Rosa T8000 series cpus coming out from Intel.

Rob H
 
thats way too much money for what your planning to use it on, you can get a nice compaq or acer for 400 notes, no point at all spending that much, 700 is quite a high end laptop these days
 
Sorry forgot add that I want a relatively long batttery life, and not to be carrying around something huge.

So £500-600 would be enough then?

Jonnyc90
 
I'm almost sure that I have settled on the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo PI2515, seems fine for my purposes.
For just less than £500.

Jonnyc90
 
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HP G7015EA
HP laptop featuring Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB storage, Windows Vista Home Premium and a 15.4" widescreen display.

I recommended the above laptop to a mate this morning & he is off over Coventry to pick it up now. Reduced from 600 quid to 399 quid. A Bargain if you ask me.
 
malc30 said:
HP G7015EA
HP laptop featuring Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB storage, Windows Vista Home Premium and a 15.4" widescreen display.

I recommended the above laptop to a mate this morning & he is off over Coventry to pick it up now. Reduced from 600 quid to 399 quid. A Bargain if you ask me.
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I want to keep the laptop I buy as light as possible with longer battery life than 2 hrs. The Fujitsu Siemens has nearly 4 hrs of battery life (claimed). Plus it is a 1.8GHz opposed to 1.46GHz.

Nevertheless the HP still looks like an interesting deal.
 
Sounds great to me mate. My mate keeps his plugged in most of the time so battery life wasn't an issue. Damn cheap though. Let us know what the one you buy is like as i get many requests to spec laptops.
 
malc30 said:
Sounds great to me mate. My mate keeps his plugged in most of the time so battery life wasn't an issue. Damn cheap though. Let us know what the one you buy is like as i get many requests to spec laptops.
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Will do, its just starting up for the first time now, taking ages like usual.

Jonnyc90
 
I bought my sister a HP TX1340 for Christmas
2MB, 120GB, DVDRW
12.1" screen that can be turned around to make a tablet PC.
AMD CPU
£700

I had a quick play with it yesterday. The handwriting recognition is pretty good - it recognised my illegible scrawl. The TFT display has the usual problems of slightly limited viewing angles when in tablet and portrait orientation.
 
IBM T61 or X61 arnt too bad, unsure on the cost per unit as we buy in bulk... but good battery life, good screen, good RTB and call out guys, easy to get drivers and built to a decent standard.
 
colinuk said:
LOL........................... and LOL again....
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What's so funny? He asked for lightweight with long battery life. No way would I ever lay £700 notes down on a Dell/Sony/HP laptop. Apple wins by a mile.

They do run Windows you know.

Sure you can buy cheaper, but you get what you pay for...
 
^^ From above
HP G7015EA
HP laptop featuring Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB storage, Windows Vista Home Premium and a 15.4" widescreen display.

I installed this for my mate & have had a play with it & i have to say it is an Exceptional laptop for less than 400 quid.
 
malc30 said:
^^ From above
HP G7015EA
HP laptop featuring Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor, 2GB RAM, 160GB storage, Windows Vista Home Premium and a 15.4" widescreen display.

I installed this for my mate & have had a play with it & i have to say it is an Exceptional laptop for less than 400 quid.
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Doubt it is either lightweight or has great battery life but still it is a good deal!
 
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