Advice on new Laptop, Desktop Replacement ?700 and under

[400bandit]

Hello all. Im off to uni this year and I am looking (well hopefully my parents ) to buy a laptop. I've set my maximum price at about 700 large ones. I'm not a gammer and will mainly be a desktop replacement. I want it to be a good multi tasker and will use it for media applications most of all. I have been think HP Pavillion but I just thought I'd check out with people in the know.
I'd like it to be able to keep up with my Desktop I currently own (maybe pass or is this asking too much on my budget?). That has a 3GHz P4 (Hyper threading) 768MB of ddr400 RAM and a 80 gig hard drive (oh and a 128MB ATI graphics card) without going into too much detail.
I'm ok when it comes to desktops and understand whats good and whats not but laptops are a bit alien to me (i've always stayed away from them)
What processors should I look out for? Many thanks and sorry for sounding a computer idiot, I'm not that bad (honest )
Joe
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[Jamie.]

If you can stretch to £750ish theres a few good ones here;

https://www.laptopshop.co.uk/new-laptops-notebooks/show600/749/4.htm

Remember the big red prices are excluding VAT


If I had that kind of cash i'd be looking at these;

https://www.laptopshop.co.uk/asus-asus_a6km_q013h-laptop-2-n2.htm

https://www.laptopshop.co.uk/acer-aspire_5612wlm_v1-laptop-1-n2.htm

https://www.laptopshop.co.uk/acer-aspire_5622_wlmi-laptop-1-n2.htm

https://www.laptopshop.co.uk/lenovo-3000_c100_tb03puk-laptop-1-n2.htm


Just a few decent ones for that money taken from the first link

[carvell]

Why do you want a laptop for uni?

Everyone who goes to uni says they need a laptop. They're massively overrated and I guarantee you'll use it once. Just bring your desktop to uni.
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[Jamie.]

If you read it again, he dosent want it for uni

[Luke_Retrofly]

Hi
Dell is your friend, I just got one from wrok, a Dell inspiron 6400, its quality, does everything I want it to do, except gaming, well its has an ATI mobile x1300 card, I dont know how good that is.

Has DVD re-writer, in built wirles network card and more input holes than you can shake a stick at, all for about £650

https://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/inspn_6400?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

Luke
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[Rob W]

I'd sell you my PC for £650

AMD Opteron 146 CPU
nVidia GeForce 7800GT 256MB PCI-E Graphics card
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Motherboard
2GB of DDR400 RAM
Philips PSC724 24-Bit 5.1 surround sound soundcard
Advent Sub & Speakers
BenQ DW1650 DVD/CD Burner (does DL at 8x and burns onto anything)
iCute tower case with 5 x 5.25" bays and 3 x 3.5" bays
550W PSU
Couple of extra fans and an exhaust fan
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Hi
If I had the money I'd buy it off you, sounds damn goos to me

Luke
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[400bandit]

Cheers Jamie. I was pretty impressed with the spec of the Acer. I looked at those a while back when a friend was buying a laptop. I've heard some good reviews on them too only being let down by poor battery life. I'm not too bothered about the battery life, like I said it needs to be a desktop replacement rather than an ultra portable.
I will be using it at Uni as I don't want to take my desktop because I would have to bring it back and fourth from Uni every time I come home. I also have wanted a laptop for some time as I have a Guitar Port which I use and would like to be a little more mobile (i.e. be able to take round friends houses and jam). Thanks for the advice.
And thanks for the offer on the PC but I already have a desktop. will mention it to anyone that needs one tho
Joe
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[Jamie.]

Make dell your last option to be honest

If you knew what they did to their parts and where they got them from you wouldnt buy one

Catch my drift...

[400bandit]

Yeah thats what I've heard. My mum has a Dell Desktop, I mean it's ok but its not earth shattering stuff for the spec it supposed to be. I mean I'm almost 100% sure it was supposed to have 512MB of RAM in it but when my mum said it was running a bit slow I opened it up to find only one stic of 256MB! O well I know I wont be buying one. Like I said though, I really like the looks of the Acer's I may even spend a little more to get a better one, I'll put money towards it, maybe up 900/1000 pound? I'm not too sure yet, just having a look around. Thanks for the info people,
Joe
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(+ a XS650 in lots of pieces in my garage and other places...)

[ali-b]

Dell have an eBay store that they sell slightly damaged equipment on for peanuts (got a desktop machine for half price because of a slight scratch in the surface of the plastic)...

EDIT - Dell URL - https://stores.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Outlet

That'd be where I'd start...maybe have a look at ebuyer.com and dabs.com for special offers too..

A.