OT decent laptop under £350?
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Way off topic, but need a bit of advice.

I'm looking at buying a decent laptop. It doesn't need to be powerful enough to run games etc, but should be quick enough for daily stuff and cost less than £350?

Anyone know of any good deals going?

In the 13's at last!.. Just

the lenovo laptops seem pretty decent & a good price. ebuyer currently have a cash back offer on them atm.

failing that you can get a cheap dell for 300 ish

We just bought a Toshiba in currys of all places for £349 for my Niece for christmas there was a few with the same spec but the Toshiba seems to have better built quality http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/toshiba-satel...056578-pdt.html

a quick google too http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/aug/2...computer-laptop

Saw an advert last night for a 750Gb Toshiba for £349 from Argos of all places with supposedly £99 of stuff with it free (laptop bag, other such rammle).

I've had three Tosh laptops now, always have been good for me, never had any hardware failures, first one got pinched, second one did about 8 years including a few 12 second runs in the DON datalogging (which is what finished it off I think) and had the current one about 4 years. Will buy another as and when I need a replacement.

Edited by Tom Fenton on 7th Dec, 2012.

I've had a couple of laptops off these guys. http://www.tier1online.com/

They have new and refurbished ones. I got a grade A IBM thinkpad for £127 about 4 years ago. still going strong.

I also got a new Toshiba for around £350 (list price £800), it's been great.

Lot's of choice anyway.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Ill sell ya one

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Ebuyer have a load of Lenovo deals on. I've forwarded the email on to you.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Yeah and if I find him on my patch again his gunna loose a pair of knees!

On 7th Dec, 2012 Tom Fenton said:

On 7th Dec, 2012 John said:

The screens are a bastard to change in em though eh?

No it was easy, I just contacted the IT dept to sort it

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Thee n whos army tha gret poof?!

On 7th Dec, 2012 MikeRace said:
Yeah and if I find him on my patch again his gunna loose a pair of knees!

On 7th Dec, 2012 Tom Fenton said:

On 7th Dec, 2012 John said:

The screens are a bastard to change in em though eh?

No it was easy, I just contacted the IT dept to sort it

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Thy pair o feckin clots, I'm gonna bray thee thick 'eads together in a bit....!!!

Theres gunna be a reyt bray up this weekend haha,

btw on a more constructive note:

Ive never really liked Toshibas, got alot in my schools along with HP's and Dells, and out of the 3 I get most grief with them, either failed HDD or failed Wireless Cards...

Im not saying theyre babbarr as its only 1in50 but its always the toshibas.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Cheers chaps. I wasn't expecting such a hive of activity from such a dull, off-topic subject. Lol

Thanks for the link John.

Mike, this will be a present. Do you have any new stuff or is it all covered in the remains of packed lunches?

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Haha usually yes! I sometimes get some good gear when a school shuts up shop etc.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Can i tag-onto this thread please.

Im needing a new laptop for myself but the penny are tight. I do feck all on it apart from surf net but i have thousands of pics on there and im starting to get more now with the camera.

Ive started messing with RAW pics and the laptop just shits itself, so would need somthing capable to sort all them and would love a hi res screen ???

Thanks rick

Any advice gents

Sorry Rick I know nothing about advanced spec for big image processing, I guess Matt Woods would be the man to advise about this. However what I can recommend is an external USB hard drive to store all your files on, this will help the lappy a bit by freeing up some HDD space to use. They are quite cheap and big sizes, o have had mine a few years now it's 500gb but I'm sure there will be much bigger now.

Hahaha!

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

I bought an hp pavilian last year for a present, and not had any problems with it at all, its seems a good sturdy laptop..been dropped a few times now!

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