Recommend a laptop for £400ish

Clairvoyant · 18 May 2006 at 13:24

as above, Looking to have a 15" screen and 512mb Ram.

Thanx in advance

Ender · 18 May 2006 at 13:59

quick search comes up with this -

Dell Inspiron 1300 Celeron M 380 - XP Home (N05131) (LT-009-DE)

- Intel Celeron M 380 1.6Ghz
- 1MB L2 Cache
- 14.1" WXGA Widescreen Panel (1280x800)
- 512MB DDR2 Memory (2x256MB)
- 40GB IDE Hard Drive
- Internal 24xCDRW/8xDVD Combo Drive
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsift Works 7.0
- 1yr DELL collect & return warranty (Call DELL on 0870 9080800 and have the work number from the original packaging handy)

Note - All Dell laptops are built on demand, during busy periods this may cause a delay of between 2 and 5 days in despatching your order.

Price: £339.95 (£399.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Its a 14 inch screen but at that money thats the best you can get (at least from ocuk i think)

lemonkettaz · 18 May 2006 at 14:00

i have £550 to spend on a laptop... would the dell 640m be good for the money?

i think its a couple down from the 1300...

Ender · 18 May 2006 at 14:08

The 640m works out to be £646 inc vat, the 6400 though looks decent enough (though i have not tested it myself) spec wise- no real graphics capability though if thats a problem.

GuruJockStrap · 18 May 2006 at 14:38

Ender said:
quick search comes up with this -

Dell Inspiron 1300 Celeron M 380 - XP Home (N05131) (LT-009-DE)

- Intel Celeron M 380 1.6Ghz
- 1MB L2 Cache
- 14.1" WXGA Widescreen Panel (1280x800)
- 512MB DDR2 Memory (2x256MB)
- 40GB IDE Hard Drive
- Internal 24xCDRW/8xDVD Combo Drive
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsift Works 7.0
- 1yr DELL collect & return warranty (Call DELL on 0870 9080800 and have the work number from the original packaging handy)

Note - All Dell laptops are built on demand, during busy periods this may cause a delay of between 2 and 5 days in despatching your order.

Price: £339.95 (£399.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Its a 14 inch screen but at that money thats the best you can get (at least from ocuk i think)

Managed to find exactly the same laptop and spec as above but with a 15.4" display for £381.24.

The only problem is that it comes with 256MB RAM. No problem really as you can get a stick of Crucial 256MB for £22.31.

Everything you need for £403.55.

Ender · 18 May 2006 at 14:40

there you go then, go with gurus suggestion

lemonkettaz · 18 May 2006 at 14:40

i can stretch to £650....

i dont need gaming at all. just to run footie manager.. any ideas

(sorry for stealing the limelight for a bit from OP.. but im at college and somereason i can only reply.. not start threads... stupid restrictions on the network)

Ender · 18 May 2006 at 14:51

it should be able to run football manager easily enough, being that the game is all to do with running maths calculations im right in thinking? (dont play it myself

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lemonkettaz · 18 May 2006 at 15:29

Ender said:
it should be able to run football manager easily enough, being that the game is all to do with running maths calculations im right in thinking? (dont play it myself )

is the dell 640m.. worth it over the 6400?

6400 bigger screen less ram.. cdrw £540inc vat

640m smaller screen more ram.. dvdrw £646inc vat

Datamonkey · 18 May 2006 at 21:14

HP Pavilion dv5016ea

Amd 3000+ Sempron
15.4" widescreen beautiful screen
1gb ram
40gb hdd
dvdrw.
wifi and ethernet

only downside i dont like is its only got 2usb ports.

£570 new from high street.

very good build quality, much better than the dells,, i hate the plastic used on the dells the keyboards flex, the housing bends under slight touch.

£570