Another budget Laptop Thread

[Ash]

I wanted to see the recommendtions that was over at Cube Europe, but its been deleted so i cant, and im sorry to post this another time, basiccally i have a budget off £950/£1000 and i want the best laptop for that price, i CAN NOT go over the £1000 mark, it will be used at home, and will be used like most desktop PC's, has to be wireless, so i can connect to the internet, Graphics are not a major problem, but would like a large screen and a good battery life, not like the one i got now (about an hour tops), would like it small (thin) and light. thanks

Edit: i like the look of this one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Samsung_Notebooks.html

Samsung X20 HVM 750 Laptop - XP Pro (LT-006-SA)

The £995 one, any good?

[christophicus]

I dont know much about good value for laptops but that laptop will preform ok but if it is possible to get a modle without the ddr2 memory then i would cause you only really benifit from ddr2 with graphics which you said you are not too pushed about.

[Charlie]

www.apple.com/uk/thestore - You could get a really good iBook for that price :p

[Cube]

have a look at this one:

http://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5024WLMi_LX.A4605.048/version-1.asp

Much better AND cheaper.

max resolution is 1280by800

[Ash]

Yeah that does look nice, is it small? and what is the battery life like? i do like that one one, is that the model you got?

[christophicus]

i would have to say for sheer preformance i would deffinatly go with a pentium m processor in a laptop.

[Waylander]

How about the iBook. Apple has just updated the range.
Apple iBook (http://www.apple.com/uk/ibook/)

I use a Powerbook myself. I switched over from WinXP about 2 years ago.

[Ash]

I dont really get on with Mac, i would perfer to stick with Windows, i thought AMD was very good in a laptop?

[CVD]

Yea, Pentium M is supposedly the granddaddy of all laptop processors. You should get a half decent one for under a grand. I'm sure Laptops Direct (http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/) will sort you out.

[Ash]

So you would not recommend AMD Processers?

[christophicus]

Amd processors are very good but it seems at the moment that pentium ms are slightly betteralthough are are very unreasonable priced!

[Ash]

What about this one, looks very good, for a very good price, http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/store/dix_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0217193039.112740823 5@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgaddfkgmiehfcflgceggdhhmdfhn.0&page=Product&sku=540193&category_oid=-21720&fm=1&sm=1&tm=0