Spec me a £400 laptop

Butters · 10 Jan 2008 at 14:04

I've had a really good offer of a HP 6820S Intel Celeron 530 1.73 GHz 17" WXGA 1x1GB 120GB DVD+/-RW, Wifi, BT, ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 384MB, and Vista HP.

The winner for me here is its £50 cashback so makes it around £350 with delivery and the fact it has seperate GFX.

I'm not a hard core gamer but I do like MOHAA and want to be able to relieve the processor and memory of any uneccessary strain. I'm also not too fussed about having such a large screen.

What say ye?

Any other options available in this price range?

Bradmax57 · 11 Jan 2008 at 13:14

Butters said:
I've had a really good offer of a HP 6820S Intel Celeron 530 1.73 GHz 17" WXGA 1x1GB 120GB DVD+/-RW, Wifi, BT, ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 384MB, and Vista HP.

The winner for me here is its £50 cashback so makes it around £350 with delivery and the fact it has seperate GFX.

I'm not a hard core gamer but I do like MOHAA and want to be able to relieve the processor and memory of any uneccessary strain. I'm also not too fussed about having such a large screen.

What say ye?

Any other options available in this price range?

Lenovo N200, I bought one and it came with much better spec than was advertised, 15.4" 1680x1050 lcd with webcam, bluetooth, fingerprint reader, c2d 1.46ghz, 1gb ram, 120gb hdd, dvdrw and nvidia 7300 vista HP, all for £379.99

since then ive bought a T7300 cpu and a 250gb hdd off the bay

Butters · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:34

tis ok,

I found a great Dell deal. C2D 1.86Ghz, 2Gb DDR2, 160Gb HDD, Truelife display with 2m webcam built in, alpine white case and cover all for £399.

Thanks

Bradmax57 · 11 Jan 2008 at 15:46

Butters said:
tis ok,

I found a great Dell deal. C2D 1.86Ghz, 2Gb DDR2, 160Gb HDD, Truelife display with 2m webcam built in, alpine white case and cover all for £399.

Thanks

thats not bad, onboard vga i presume?

Butters · 11 Jan 2008 at 16:15

Bradmax57 said:
thats not bad, onboard vga i presume?

yer, but thats all i nedd atm tbh

DiscoKandy · 12 Jan 2008 at 23:40

got any more details on that Dell deal matey

Perfect_Chaos · 13 Jan 2008 at 07:28

theres a code flying about to get 10% off any XPS dell, i think u can get a 8600m GT 2.2ghz 2gb ram for less than 500 quid.

i think u have to spend 499 minimum to get that 10% off tho.

Bennah · 13 Jan 2008 at 18:25

Butters said:
tis ok,

I found a great Dell deal. C2D 1.86Ghz, 2Gb DDR2, 160Gb HDD, Truelife display with 2m webcam built in, alpine white case and cover all for £399.

Thanks

That does'nt seem too bad actually. If like me, you dont need great graphics then thats perfect.

Tempting me to get a new laptop now

Btw what OS is it?

DiscoKandy · 14 Jan 2008 at 13:45

Perfect_Chaos said:
theres a code flying about to get 10% off any XPS dell, i think u can get a 8600m GT 2.2ghz 2gb ram for less than 500 quid.

i think u have to spend 499 minimum to get that 10% off tho.

I keep hearing about all these Dell/Vostro deals, but when I actually go the website and do it, it comes out way over what people are quoting.

Must be doing something wrong :confused:

sja360 · 14 Jan 2008 at 14:03

dell automatically select 3 year business return warranty, make sure its only set to 1 years warranty.

Bradmax57 · 14 Jan 2008 at 14:16

i cant seem to find one with 8600gt etc under £500

was that inc VAT & Delivery?

Butters · 15 Jan 2008 at 20:12

Ok, heres the thing.

I went to the dell site and looked at the Inspirons. The first one was £399 and was Pentium dual core, 120Gb, 2Gb mem and X3100 gfx. No built in webcam, no truelife display.

So I clicked on the next model up, £449, 1.66ghz (correction to the above), 160Gb 5400 drive, 2Gb, X3100, built in 2mp webcam, truelife display.

Then I went back to the first one and customised it to be exactly the same spec as the £449 one. The first one came out at £523. :confused:

Then at checkout I got £50 off! w00t!

Oh, just saw above, these are both Vista HP btw.