Give me a hand spending £500 please

Jonny L

Jonny L

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Hey guys,

My mum has come to me asking for help to find a laptop for the amount mentioned above. She is a teacher and therefore has a school laptop (which is brand new, her old one was diabolical), however, because of the poor grade of IT support at her school and the awkward way in which they have set up the laptop, she is unable to connect to the internet at home without messing up her settings for school. The system is also set to syncronise every time she logs on at school (she was not in fact told this but found out about it after losing 4 hours of work from the previous evening) so has to keep all of her work on a series of memory sticks which is not ideal.

Anyway, so she would like a laptop for home.

Ideally the laptop should be quite nippy as she will be using it a lot.

Its main uses will be for email, spreadsheets and data bases, timetabling software such as Nova T, quite a lot of word processing and I would imagine general internet use as well.

It would be nice to have a 15" widescreen, although anything bigger would be a bonus :)

Blur ray is not necessary but DVD is.


Thanks in advance for any advice guys.
 
At that sort of price you could get a pretty good spec for a 15 inch laptop, maybe something like a dell studio might suit the needs, i haven't owned one myself but i know a friend who has one and he seems happy with it and they also seem quite popular on forums, or else something like the machine in my sig which was bought for £480 in december.

hope this helps
 
mic551 said:
At that sort of price you could get a pretty good spec for a 15 inch laptop, maybe something like a dell studio might suit the needs, i haven't owned one myself but i know a friend who has one and he seems happy with it and they also seem quite popular on forums, or else something like the machine in my sig which was bought for £480 in december.

hope this helps
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Thanks mate, I have a dell studio 15" myself, which I bought last summer and paid £600 for it. With this in mind when I looked at them I thought that perhaps I could now get one of a similar spec for my mum with this amount of cash but it seems quite the opposite, they now seem more expensive for what they are?
 
maybe a couple of others you could look at:

ASUS M51A-AP082C Laptop
Lenovo N500 Laptop

Both of these can be had for under £500 if you know where to look. Not sure what there like but the spec seems good
 
If your going to go for the studio, ring them, because you will get a much better deal :). If you dont get what you want, hang up and try again. Knocked about £120 off my inspiron 15, and got bits thrown in.
 
Dell Inspiron will be great for her. The warantee is decent, and as my amigo says, always ring them up for extra discounts. :D
 
NeoVo said:
If your going to go for the studio, ring them, because you will get a much better deal :). If you dont get what you want, hang up and try again. Knocked about £120 off my inspiron 15, and got bits thrown in.
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crikey mate I had no idea you could barter with dell. How much was yours to start with then? I'm taking a fresh look at Dells now as they're meant to be alright and my CEO's XPS M1330 is very nice.
 
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