Buying a laptop...

Shostakovich

Shostakovich

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in the coming weeks/months...

Does anyone have any great recommendations? I wanted a VAIO but they can be noisy and although good, their screens can get annoying reflections...

I am suprised how small the market is, with little choice over what to get. I would ideally like one on a budget, but still have a decent screen, as I will use it for a lot of student work, so don't need performance...

Is this the right forum for it? I could not see anywhere else more appropriate..

Thanks
 
As said above Toshiba laptops are really good value for money,

While i've always found VAIO to be the opposite. As your mainly paying for the Sony name.

Toshiba also do a warranty that if anypart fails they will refund you the whole RRP of the laptop and repair it for you. For 3 years.
 
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As said above Toshiba laptops are really good value for money,

While i've always found VAIO to be the opposite. As your mainly paying for the Sony name.

Toshiba also do a warranty that if anypart fails they will refund you the whole RRP of the laptop and repair it for you. For 3 years.
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Is that a warranty you pay for?

Toshiba seem to be quite a lot more than Dell..

For £379, you can get this:

AMD® Sempron™ Mobile Technology 3500+

Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic - English
Operating system

512MB 533MHz Single Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x512]
Memory

15.4" Wide Screen XGA TFT Display: 1280x800
Harddrive

80GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Optical Drive

Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
Graphic Card

256MB ATI ® Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory™
Modem
 
Dell Inspiron 1501 : AMD dual core 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, DVDRW, Vista laptop - £352.57 delivered !


Reduce warranty to minimum to get this price. Go via Quidco for further savings.


AMD® Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL50

Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic - English

Collect & Return, 90 Day Service only

15.4" Wide Screen XGA TFT Display: 1280x800

1024MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)

80GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive

256MB ATI ® Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory

Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software

4 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (29 Whr)

Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-PCI Card (for AMD Processors)

Microsoft® Works 8.0 - English
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Upgrade tot he 6 cell battery battery and the better screen for about £35 though, the screen is the only sub par (but still perfectly useable, just crap viewing angles) aspect about them imo.
 
Surely that spec wouldn't struggle with Vista? Why would it?

In a nutshell, I am after:

Something with a nice screen (this is the single most important thing as I hate laptops, until these new screens came out - whatever they are called - what are they called?)

Speed/Graphics good enough only for word processing/DVD watching casually.

Hardwearing, as I will be taking it across London as a student

And because of this, cheap so I won't be afraid to take it out the house, or cry too much if it were to break.

I would like to spend about £400? But more if necessary for a nice screen.
 
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I currently use this for work, which is really good I have found (running XP).

The screen is very good.

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/home/products/notebooks/amilo_pi_1505.html

But I don't think the build quality is up to much -- already things have snapped off through wear and tear. But is is a good laptop, and roughly what I am looking for. What sort of alternative is there? £500 is ok.

Here is a review that seems very accurate:

http://www.vnunet.com/personal-computer-world/hardware/2171115/group-test-fujitsu-siemens
 
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