New Laptop

Was thinking of buying a Laptop for in the house to save having to sit at the desktop in the office to surf the net. The laptop would really only be used for surfing the net and looking at photos. Any ideas as to what make and where is the best place to buy?

dell . check them out online
might not b the cheapest but best value for money

Try these , look for the toshibas or hp/compaq , etc just got a hp one with a 17" screen and good spec for £300 , really good quality , most are clearance and brand new [dont bother with advent , packard bell , will only last 12 months]

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/stor...&show_all=true

Just posted in another thread. In my experience Dell have drifted on quality a little lately. HP and Toshiba are really good.

See faulty laptop thread for the full text but don't (do not) DO NOT buy a Packard Bell and Acer aren't too clever either. Acer seem to age quickly.

And have a look on Tesco Direct for good deals.

Is that a good deal in PC World, sign up for mobile broadband and get a free laptop , or are they just dumping the crap ones ?

They're stitching you up with an expensive 3g deal with a tight "fair usage" policy. No such thing as a free lunch in my experience.

Iv got a sony vaio bloody good machine with the wireless internet just wander about the house even in the summer can sit in the garden on a nice day and surf the net no probs

For exactly what you what you cannot beat the asus EEE range of umpc's
I have had the little 701 for web browsing for the last 18mths or so and its been fantastic- Great wlan range - unfortunetely our 3yr old has destroyed the screen
This week I purchased the EEE 1000H and I cannot recomend it enough

utube - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=47__AI...eature=related

They do seem to be getting quite popular, those small form comptuers. I could see them being ace, if they were a tad more robust, for monitoring/control of equipment on the farm.

What's battery life on them like?

The battery life of the eee 1000h is about 5hrs -Its advertised at more - but I have had 5 in general use-
the last one I had was very robust with the ssd but No experience of the 1000h yet

Originally Posted by andybk

Try these , look for the toshibas or hp/compaq , etc just got a hp one with a 17" screen and good spec for £300 , really good quality , most are clearance and brand new [dont bother with advent , packard bell , will only last 12 months]

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/stor...&show_all=true

They are all advertised as refurbished - What age will these be? and will they have been faulty ones returned? There is a 12 month guarantee with them and do seem good value.

andybk,I have an old ( very old ) advent 7001 laptop. No 1 son had it a school,then he upgraded and he passed it to me. It has travelled hundreds of thousands of miles in aircraft and Toyota Landcruisers,and has stopped functioning once only. It was repaired in the middle of Central Asia for the princley sum of a bottle of Vodka,and is sending this post to BFF. What more can I say,one day when it decides to cease working I will replace it,but until then .................

Dells good just not alot of consuer support if any problems etc. Using acers at the moment, look for deals anywhere, PC world, etc.

[johnny400]

recently got an ADVENT 4211, same idea as your EEE, great for web browsing and even doing word docs and spread sheets etc.....10.1 inch screen, weighs about a 1kg, only thing dosent have cd drive....go to pc world, got mine in duty free....but recomend

been looking on here www.laptopsdirect.co.uk

seem to have some good deals going.

Originally Posted by johnny400

recently got an ADVENT 4211, same idea as your EEE, great for web browsing and even doing word docs and spread sheets etc.....10.1 inch screen, weighs about a 1kg, only thing dosent have cd drive....go to pc world, got mine in duty free....but recomend

Must be an echo in here?

After having two HP/Compaq laptops fail within a month of purchase (one as a replacement for the other) I can no longer recommend HP as a "premium" brand, and I gather that many others have found the same thing recently.
I ended up with a Fujitsu/Siemens "Amilo", which I wasn't intending to get, but which has behaved perfectly for over 6 months.

RGSP

[lexion610]

have a dell inspiron 1525 and is very good, quite light and good (ish) battery life. has survived multiple drops and never failed. i had to reset it to factory settings because i did something but was very easy to customise back to my own settings. highly reccomended

I would reccomend HP. If you search MyVouchercodes.co.uk and use a cashback site such as Quidco.com, then by ordering from HP you can save 15% and get 8% cash back. So a £600 laptop costs £510, which you get 8% cash back on, costing you a grand total of £469.20!! Total saving of 22%!!

and get the v a t back aswell