Laptop for a student

Hey all,

My GF is currently thinking about a getting a new laptop and has found the Toshiba L655D-133.

Has anyone got or would recommend this laptop? Or even suggest something different? Maximum spend is £500.

Thanks,
Luke.

not sure if that is a competitors link, if so it needs to be removed :(

on the overall laptop i dont really know much about them, but as a student myself, im looking at netbooks purely for portability to and from university for word processing.

My choices at this time:

HP Mini 311c - worth a look at :)

Acer AO721 - worth even more of a look at.

Both sub £300 and the acer supports max of 4gb and the mini only 3gb :)

hope this kind of helped. :)
 
Some people may think I work for Acer :p but I really cannot recommend this laptop enough:

Acer TravelMate 8371 -

Intel® ULV Core 2 Duo 1.4Ghz (ULV SU9400, 3 MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
13.3" (Acer CineCrystal, 1366x768 HD, High Brightness, LED Backlit)
Win Vista Business 32 bit
4GB (DDR3 1066MHZ)
320GB 5400rpm Western Digital
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 with 512MB Dedicated RAM
5-in-1 card reader (SD//MS/MS-Pro/MMC/xD-Picture card™)
3x USB 2.0 ports
Kensington lock slot
8 Hrs Battery Life
1.7Kg

Upgrade to Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit if possible, and it runs brilliantly! The laptop is very slim and not that heavy so quite portable for a student. The battery also lasts for ages so no need to carry the charger around! It's priced at around £350 which is a very good price for the spec, if you have another £100-£150 lying around though I would buy a SSD hdd and stick that in to give it a nice boost and use the 320GB as a spare storage USB drive, which is easily done with an enclosure. :)
 
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Some people may think I work for Acer :p but I really cannot recommend this laptop enough:

Acer TravelMate 8371 -

Intel® ULV Core 2 Duo 1.4Ghz (ULV SU9400, 3 MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
13.3" (Acer CineCrystal, 1366x768 HD, High Brightness, LED Backlit)
Win Vista Business 32 bit
4GB (DDR3 1066MHZ)
320GB 5400rpm Western Digital
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 with 512MB Dedicated RAM
5-in-1 card reader (SD//MS/MS-Pro/MMC/xD-Picture card™)
3x USB 2.0 ports
Kensington lock slot
8 Hrs Battery Life
1.7Kg

Upgrade to Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit if possible, and it runs brilliantly! The laptop is very slim and not that heavy so quite portable for a student. The battery also lasts for ages so no need to carry the charger around! It's priced at around £350 which is a very good price for the spec, if you have another £100-£150 lying around though I would buy a SSD hdd and stick that in to give it a nice boost and use the 320GB as a spare storage USB drive, which is easily done with an enclosure. :)

oo not my thread but that sounds like a nice little laptop, any chance you could post 1 or 2 pics just for an idea on size, i really could do with something portable and decent enough spec for university and college.

Cheers :)
 
I've been preaching that for ages, get a CULV 13'' laptop for uni. If you don't have a desktop in your room, then they wont be very comfortable for extended work, though but you can get close with USB peripherals and docking stations. 13'' laptops don't have optical drives neither. And they are not speed demons, but that's not really their point!

If you want to carry it around like a netbook, they are basically ideal. If you want a workstation that you can occasionally move about, then a 15'' will be better suited.

This Acer model has a mediocre dedicated GPU, but that's better than nothing, which is what you usually get with notebooks of that ilk (I do miss some graphics capabilities on my UL30A, for Guild Wars, Titan Quest, stuff like that, which is just about running on a GMA4500HD).
 
For the same price as the Tosh you can get a better spec'd HP from the same website you posted.

Check out the HP Pavilion DV6-3050SA Red finish (also available in White & Black)
 
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