Laptops

[True Blue]

I'm after a laptop for around 600 quid. Where do you reckon I can get the best one for my money? It's just for general use, but I'd like to be able to play video on it at a decent quality.
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[Rookie]

I got an Acer with Turion processor for about £410 (I didn't pay VAT though.) It's a budget laptop, but it's the most performance you're going to get for the money.

Check out www.ebuyer.com, they have very cheap laptops.

[True Blue]

I'm not really getting al these different processors that are on the go. How does a 1.7GHz M processor compare to, say, a 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4?
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[T1z3R]

check out the lappys on the europc.co.uk site mate, can get you good price on one since we share their bulding
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[Rookie]

The new Athlon processors are Sempium (equivalent of Centuron) and Turion (equivalent of Pentium) and the new M processors from Intel are specifically laptop designed. Laptop processors are designed to perform well at lower speeds so they don't get too hot, so a 1.6ghz Turion or Pentium M is a good speed processor.

[Silver]

[jay_666]

My sister got one of these from tesco after spilling a cup of tea over her old one
https://www.tesco.com/electrical/product.aspx?R=8213744
Also, try www.ebuyer.co.uk there very good usually!
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[True Blue]

Cheers Silver, that graph was the comparison I was looking for.

I was looking at this one for 719, delivered. You think it seems ok?

Base:
Intel® Pentium® Pentium M 750 (1.86GHz 2MB L2cache 533MHz FSB)

Microsoft Operating System:
Genuine Windows®XP Media Center Edition 2005

Memory:
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)

Hard Drive:
80GB (5.400rpm) IDE Hard Drive

LCD:
15.4" Wide Screen UltraSharpTM WXGA (1280 x 800) LCD Panel


Video Card:
ATI Mobility™ Radeon® X300 64MB HyperMemory®


CD/DVD Drives:
8X DVD+/-RW with Software (No Media)
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[tokarev]

Check out what deals Dell are doing on their laptops; https://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

I got mine especially for using at uni (connecting to the wireless network etc..) so it isn't a beast of a machine but it does a good job. Use it for programming, converting videos (avi - dvd) and all the normal stuff.

Cost came to around the £500 mark.