Uni Laptop for £500

Dan G · 18 Oct 2007 at 15:33

Hi all! I'll be buying a laptop soon ahead of going to university, so I'm looking for something dependable and less than £500. I'm not so concerned about speed, but I need it to have a good battery life, and be stable as a stable thing.

I'm leaning towards Asus but only because I know of their motherboard reputation, not that I've ever owned one myself! [DFI here]

Thinking of getting a PDA-phone with it as well - would it be worth it? I already use a WM2003 phone and couldn't live without it, so would I be gaining anything? Edit - budgeting up to another £200 for the PDA-Phone

One last thing - are all the OCUK laptops including OS in the price? I already own Vista, so I don't really want to buy it again!

Cheers all!

TheVoice · 18 Oct 2007 at 17:42

Dell Vostro 1400 or 1500 are good ones. The 1400 is 14", which makes it a good size for lugging to and from Uni/the library (talking from experience here; I have a 630m).

naudiz · 18 Oct 2007 at 20:32

I was looking at them myself actually, but once you add VAT etc they get quite expensive, looking at a Fujitsu Seimens myself, AMILO Li1718, quite a good spec for 450 quid

Naud

waxapple · 18 Oct 2007 at 20:33

Dan G said:
One last thing - are all the OCUK laptops including OS in the price? I already own Vista, so I don't really want to buy it again!

Cheers all!

Get one that comes with Linux for a cheaper price then.

M3G4UK · 18 Oct 2007 at 21:59

I've got a Dell Dimension 1520. Lovely little machine. Get the larger battery and you'll be able to squeeze around 5.5hrs of battery life out of it!!

TheVoice · 18 Oct 2007 at 23:37

naudiz said:
I was looking at them myself actually, but once you add VAT etc they get quite expensive, looking at a Fujitsu Seimens myself, AMILO Li1718, quite a good spec for 450 quid

Naud

£505 incl. VAT for this spec:

Components
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista® Business - English
Base Warranty - 1 Year Business Hardware Support
14.1" Wide Screen WXGA (1280x800) TFT Display
Matte Jet Black without Camera
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
128MB nVidia® GeForce® 8400M GS with 90 watt AC adapter
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
Primary 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (56 WHr)

The Evalue code is N1014002.

Elephant08 :P · 27 Oct 2007 at 16:22

TheVoice said:
£505 incl. VAT for this spec:

Components
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista® Business - English
Base Warranty - 1 Year Business Hardware Support
14.1" Wide Screen WXGA (1280x800) TFT Display
Matte Jet Black without Camera
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
128MB nVidia® GeForce® 8400M GS with 90 watt AC adapter
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
Primary 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (56 WHr)

The Evalue code is N1014002.

A damn good spec for the money.