A question for computer experts.

[Golfmmad]

Can anybody help?

My Daughter is looking to buy a new lap top for around £500.
She just doesn't trust the likes of PC World, so I thought I'd ask on here for usual good advice.
She's not interested in an AppleMac as is just for personal use.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Golfmmad.

 

[RGDave]

Tesco were doing a very good deal on Dell laptops last week.
Great spec for the price. They also had a compaq one with more RAM.

 

[Aztecs27]

Dell or Acer.

 

[Golfmmad]

Thanks Dave, just told her and said she'd check it out. She likes Dell but the one she now has is over 6 years old.

Golfmmad.

 

[Andy]

Have a look at the Acer Aspire 5724-i5 £499 in Comet saving £280.

Pretty dam good spec 4 the money 2.

Andy

 

[Golfmmad]

Thanks Andy and Aztec, duly noted.

How good is this forum!

Golfmmad.

 

[fundy]

always worth looking at Dells outlet site, can often get a much higher spec machine for less money on there

 

[Leftie]

Tesco Direct.

Hard to beat imo.

 

[SyR]

I bought my wife a Dell Inspiron from Tesco Direct for £345. She's very happy with it and it seems powerful enough to cope with all she needs it for.

 

[Bacardibatman]

as Andy says the 5742 acer is quite a good deal and a fair heap of pc for the £
decent cpu, 4gb mem 500gb HDD

dells are also quite good

is she going to use it for any specific tasks or is it just general use, school/college work ?

does she want to lug it about alot? - if so look for a lighter one, easy to transport around (cant exactly say my dell xps m1710 or asus g73 are easy to lug around,still alot easier than my gaming rig tho)

 

[brendy]

always worth looking at Dells outlet site, can often get a much higher spec machine for less money on there

This man knows the score. I have bought several inspiron 1720's from the outlet which were allegedly grade a scratched refurbs. All have great processors, 4gb ram, ample hdd space and Nvidia m9600gs graphics, runs win7 64bit pro and simply never lags. I have even installed a few games on it and it really doesnt disappoint.
Cost under 500 including vat and postage too. Slightly lesser models can be gotten a lot cheaper too, even less again if you don't mind the odd scratch.

 

[Smiffy]

I bought my wife a Dell Inspiron from Tesco Direct for £345. She's very happy with it and it seems powerful enough to cope with all she needs it for.

Snap!
I've just bought Sam a Dell Inspiron for Christmas and she absolutely loves it. I've had a couple of goes on it and it flies along at a fair old rate.
The one I got her was about £370.00 and has a dual core processor, plenty of memory and a 320GB hard drive.
My first dabble with Dell, but would recommend so far on ease of ordering, very fast delivery and quality of product.
Rob

 

[RGDave]

Snap!
I've just bought Sam a Dell Inspiron for Christmas and she absolutely loves it. I've had a couple of goes on it and it flies along at a fair old rate.
The one I got her was about £370.00 and has a dual core processor, plenty of memory and a 320GB hard drive.
My first dabble with Dell, but would recommend so far on ease of ordering, very fast delivery and quality of product.
Rob

Dells come with a recovery partition - yes?

Do they also come with DataSafe installed?

Anyone know if the windows 7 Home Premium has an inbuilt backup and restore option - I suspect not?

Either way, make sure you take opportunities to back-up.

 

[Gillespie16]

I would go for Dell, they are good laptops.
And i argee with Dave Tesco have good deals on laptops.

Gillespie16

 

[MVP]

Well a dell is a safe bet, id personally stay away from fujitsu siemens as they generally break about 5 mins after the guarantee runs out, me and a few mates have had that problem, Me and my mrs have both got apple mac laptops now, u cant beat em theyre almost bulletproof. But yes a dell is well worth a look!

 

[richart]

My two girls have just got HP's, and i have had no complaints yet.

Was going to get an HP desktop for the office, but my Dell has suddenly started to work again. Must have been the threat of a good beating.

 

[Dodger]

Dells are crap.don't go near them,they take ages to load up and there are better, faster ones out there for the same or less money.

 

[Andy]

Naming names is pointless.

What counts is motherboard, cache, bus speed, processor and RAM. Unless you compare like for like at component level your kidding yourelf.

Buy the highest spec processor, fastest bus speed and most RAM you can. Forget about Hard Drive sizes as they do nothing but store data and can be easily changed.

Andy

 

[RGDave]

fujitsu siemens as they generally break about 5 mins after the guarantee runs out, me and a few mates have had that problem,

I agree. I bought 2 desktop ones for work....they both lived under 2 years.

 

[Gazp]

I just brought an Acer 7551 from comet for £399....£650 in PC World. It's got 3gb memory & 250gb hard drive and a webcam.