How about this?

[Bennah]

Hi there,

I shall be after a new Laptop very soon, I want something much quicker than the Acer TravelMate Ive got now with a mobile celery

Im not after anything with fancy graphics, thats why I bought a PS3. Also, not really fussed about the colour of it nor little extra's like built it webcams and other little pointless things I would'nt use.

My main needs are something thats very quick. C2D of course, the quicker the better within reason on price. Decent amount of ram, 2GB atleast. HD space around 160GB-ish. 15.4", 1440x900.

Here is what I came up with....

That ends up @ £650inc VAT and Shipping. The Dell £50 offer ends 16th Jan, I will be ordering after that so the total will be around £700.

Im looking at spending around £700 so is this pretty much the best I could get?

I would love a Rock laptop but the budget cant be streched that much more

Thanks

 

[DELETED_36704]

That's a Dell Vostro 1500 right?

I just did a quick spec for you using this code instead: N0115011

Base: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache)
Microsoft Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic - English
Enhanced Service Packs
Base Warranty: - 1 Year Business Hardware Support
LCD: 15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife™
Colour Choice: Matte Jet Black without Camera
Memory: 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Hard Drive: 160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
Video Card: Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
Optical Devices: Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Primary Battery: Free upgrade from 6 cell battery to 9 cell battery

Same spec to yours apart from:
2GB ram instead of 3GB
2GHz CPU instead of 2.2GHz
Vista basic instead of Vista business

Price comes to £486.45 (free delivery + £20 off)

Or £569.95 without discounts.

 

[Bennah]

That is super cheap. No problem with the Vista change. There wouldnt be huge difference anyway.

The ram isnt a problem either. Dell have a special upgrade offer on till the end of Jan.

The only thing is the screen.

Where did you get that code from?

 

[DELETED_36704]

Really sorry, i didn't notice the screen was a different res.

I got the code from a popular UK deals website, obviously i cannot link you directly. If you wish to configure the system above go to the euro Dell site and enter the code into the search bar.

They charge £41 extra to change to 1440x900