Daborn Meister Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I need a laptop but i dont have a clue what i should be looking at I have up to £380 to spend and ill use it for things like office, music, internet and i would like it to have vista, wireless, possibly bluetooth and a fair sized hard drive.Please do not try to sell me anything Any help will be appreciated.Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Please do not try to sell me anything Why? The one I was selling had warranty and was as good as new... in fact, had you have bought it you'd have saved £100. It's sold now anyway...Unless it really HAS to be a laptop, I'd advise against it for that money. Mine was £349 and to be frank wasn't much use for anything other than general PC duties - ie if you're looking to run complex stuff or games, forget it.It's down to personal choice, but after using Vista on 3 different PC's, my new custom built desktop has Windows XP on it - I f**king hate Vista with a passion.You should be able to get a good dual core / 160gb hard drive / 2gb ram lappy for that anyway, though from experience I wouldn't buy one for less than £700 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daborn Meister Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I just like vista However, could you get a better spec for the same price as a laptop with vista by using xp?Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 The only place you can buy a computer with a legit XP install is from asus, but I doubt you want an eeepc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Vista is quite system draining and as a result laptops run a little sluggish using it, unless you spend the extra.I'd much rather have XP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Mike, this is by no means a criticism against you, but jesus, vista is fine if you're not a pussy and run it with the windows classic skin. if you have low end hardware it's a pain to run it on full aero and stuff, drop it down to the old skin and suck up the old school. XP runs better from the word go, but if you spend a day titting with vista and getting it right for your needs it'll be all fine and dandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish-Finger-er Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 I need a laptop but i dont have a clue what i should be looking at I have up to £380 to spend and ill use it for things like office, music, internet and i would like it to have vista, wireless, possibly bluetooth and a fair sized hard drive.Please do not try to sell me anything Any help will be appreciated.Joe so your just going to be using it for regular stuff, surfing the web, itunes etc. morrisons have got a cheapo laptop thatll do all that £250, intel dual core processor, 160gb hd, and 1gb ram, all i can remember from the thing in the paper about it, but itll do all that fine, was almost tempted to buy one myself, whack a 500gb harddrive in it, and just use it for general film watching and music etc whilst i was away, rather than carting mothers laptop round with a external HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 ye morrisons and aldi are selling sound laptops for price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Mike, this is by no means a criticism against you, but jesus, vista is fine if you're not a pussy and run it with the windows classic skin. if you have low end hardware it's a pain to run it on full aero and stuff, drop it down to the old skin and suck up the old school. XP runs better from the word go, but if you spend a day titting with vista and getting it right for your needs it'll be all fine and dandy.Man, I had mine literally as minimal as it would go - it looked more basic than Windows 95 in the end!It still took twice as long as XP to load, programs weren't compatible etc...I've used it on 3 machines - one underpowered, one half decent spec and then my ex-laptop - even on the half decent spec one (My Mrs pc) it doesn't run well. I just can't get on with it, it hates games and it hates music software. Day-to-day tasks like Internet & Photoshop it's fine with, it just seems like they haven't quite finished it yet, almost like it's still Beta and needs tweaking.It looks to me like they've released it, realised it's not that good and decided to throw all their money into Windows 7 or whatever it's called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Perhaps I've just struck gold, but vista 64 is very easy to live with.It might be the case that it's just not good for laptops, I'd like to see a portable version of windows 7 when it's all done though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 As much as some of the Vista features f**k me off sometimes (i have disabled most of it now) mine runs very fast on my laptop (hp dual core 2ghz, 3 gig ram) and has been reliable so far. I pretty much only use my laptop for photoshop and it breezes it really well, far better than my mates new macbook which seems a bit silly!Anyway, laptop advice, i recently bought the above hp mentioned for 500ish (i got money off by being sneaky, which took it down to 350) and its great, apparently the cheaper versions of mine are also supposed to be great for the price. Up your budget to 400 and there should be plenty of capable machines around, i think staples have a good laptop on offer atm for a very nice price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 As much as some of the Vista features f**k me off sometimes (i have disabled most of it now) mine runs very fast on my laptop (hp dual core 2ghz, 3 gig ram) and has been reliable so far. I pretty much only use my laptop for photoshop and it breezes it really well, far better than my mates new macbook which seems a bit silly!Anyway, laptop advice, i recently bought the above hp mentioned for 500ish (i got money off by being sneaky, which took it down to 350) and its great, apparently the cheaper versions of mine are also supposed to be great for the price. Up your budget to 400 and there should be plenty of capable machines around, i think staples have a good laptop on offer atm for a very nice priceThat backs up my statement of Vista being fine for general computing. If all I did was photoshop and internetz, I'd have kept that laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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