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Alright guys wanting to purchase a laptop. But don't want to spend loads on a decent one more like £600 max?

I want the laptop to handle a lil bit of everything,

So what you think of these ones:

L1

L2

L3

Or if anyone know any other decent laptops for £600 or less...

Cheers

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Number 1 or 3.

3 you get 20GB more harddrive, 1 you get the funky fingerprint security.

Hard choice, but for less money the smaller 60GB harddrive & fingerprint one grabs me better. (1)

To be honest performance wont be much between these two.

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just a word of warning, my mate got that hewlet packard i think, exactly one year ago, and last week 4 days after the warrently ran out it's refused to turn on.

he has taken it to uni and that so i dunno how abused it's got but the majority of the time it's being sat in the same place at his house.

anyway, maybe just something for you to read up on before you take the plunge.

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Rather than start a new thread..... I need a laptop too. Haven't got a chuffing clue what one to go for? (Ebay = confusion etc)

Needs to run Photoshop CS, comfortably! That`s about it... oh and be super cheap! ;)

All I know about is ram (512mb - min).... A link would be fab!

Thanx (Y)

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Alright guys wanting to purchase a laptop. But don't want to spend loads on a decent one more like £600 max?

I want the laptop to handle a lil bit of everything,

So what you think of these ones:

L1

L2

L3

Or if anyone know any other decent laptops for £600 or less...

Cheers

I can just say one thing.

laptop is shit!!!

ok, its easyer too handle and everything but after a year they broke! its not only my'n who has broke, got friends who is sick of fixing and spend money on their laptops!

so im telling u this because, if u get the chanse buy a real computer instead...

True words from me who spending alot of money on my'n >_<

//Suss

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I was in the same position, before I found the solution. Really happy with my Dell Inspiron 1300, at the time their cheapest laptop at £399. I notice that they do a variation of specs for even less now too (See link below).

Buying a second hand laptop was a waste of time I found in terms of the specs and the often additional cost of buying a new battery at £40.

My usual places for buying electrical equipement (Supermarkets!) don't want to offer anything under £600. I'm well aware that many dealers will try and over sell you a spec that just isn't needed. 50% more price with only 5% more benefit. Very difficult to beat Dell's spec for the money.

Things I was looking for and got in my laptop:

Fast enough for what I do: Windows stuff, Email, Some solidworks, future vid editting.

Built in wireless capability so no dongles needed that will be vulnerable

Wide-screen would be good

DVD reader/writer drive

Reputable dealer with support.

Look alright.

The Spec is the same as the one listed on the far left of the link:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products...;l=en&s=bsd

I'd recommend you pick up a newspaper and see if Dell have special offers on. Literally every day they had full page ads in most papers. Our laptop had free shipping, but I notice that it doesn't at the moment. Worth checking the price of this, it could be £40 or more.

Now I've got the laptop the PC never gets used. It's very convenient to be able to carry it around the house running on the battery, and at all points it picks up the internet. So easy to store away under the sofa when we need some room on the coffee table. So on convenience and space efficiency it has relegated the PC to the shed under various bike parts. Laptops ***!

Steve

Rather than start a new thread..... I need a laptop too. Haven't got a chuffing clue what one to go for? (Ebay = confusion etc)

Needs to run Photoshop CS, comfortably! That`s about it... oh and be super cheap! ;)

All I know about is ram (512mb - min).... A link would be fab!

Thanx (Y)

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lol only want the laptop to take to uni and bach home, as I got other pc at second place.

first thing. They all have shit graphics cards so you're not going to be playing any 3d games newwer than quake 2 on them.

so....

I'd go with the Acer cos ...

the Acer Aspire my missus got 2 years ago is still working fine, the build quality on that is excellent

it's not an athlon

it has the biggest screen

it has a dual core processor

don't worry about the disk space - you can always go buy an 250GB external drive for under £100 to keep your porn & shit on. The important thing here is the CPU cos upgrading that is basically a no-no on a laptop. The one in the Acer is pretty shit hot, the one in the HP isn't shit hot and running an Athlon in a laptop is asking for a badly burnt lap.

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I'll get slated but for games an the odd bit of what you mentioned cant go wrong with a decent pc , like the acer mentioned about. Most local computer shops will have some gaming and adivce nerds in them check them out but dont touch pc world unless your really wanting a wallet raper

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