dteagles

I'm looking for receommendations for a decent laptop. I have a desktop PC but with the kids wanting to play games and access the internet more and more it seems that whenever I want to use the PC they are on it!

I would want a pretty good quality one with a a CD-RW, good screen and processor (as it will in effect be replacing the home PC for me)

I was hoping to spend less than £1K and still get a 2G+ Intel P4, 512MB DDR, 40G+ hard drive.

There appear to be quite a few out there at the moment (PC world have loads to choose from) but which makes/models are good and which are bad?

I have heard that there are some incompatibility problems with the Centrino, anyone come across this?

Cheers,
Darren.

Gedi

As your effectively still gonna be using this as a desktop, it will be an idea to get one of the larger laptops.

Your not gonna go far wrong with Toshiba and Dell. If it was my choice I would narrow it down to those 2 manufacturers and pick a model which appeals to you.

e.g. this

Suresh

Bought a Dell inspiron (2.8Ghz / 768Mb / 60Gb HDD / 15" 1400 * 1000 + 64mb dedicated ram) a few weeks ago as a wireless surfing lappy to entertain me whilst the missus watches her soaps. Might do some video editing on it at some point too. Good piece of kit with excellent battery life (> 2hrs) but big, heavy and a bit pricey too.

Not overly impressed by the response of Dell customer service out here wthough. Had loads of problems when trying to get an invoice from them.

Gedi

"big, heavy" Thats sort of what they are about as people seem to be using laptops as desktops these days.

I also have an IBM Thinkpad X31. This is tiny and light as a feather. The battery also last 6 hours. But then thats what this laptop was built for. Its a travel laptop. No use for what you need, they don't even have a CD-ROM

dteagles

thanks for the advice so far, I don't mind it being big and heavy as it will be used mainly at home anyway, if I had the space I would probably opt for another desktop PC, but a laptop gives me some flexibility to go wherever the kid's are not!

Cheers,
Darren.

druddle

Have a look at Fujitsu Siemens laptops. Most reliable (according to Gartner I think last year) in the business.

I am on my second one after 2.5 yrs now and love it.

Dave

darlodge

Dell quote 1 Just add a CD-RW

Dell quote 2 includes everything you need

Dell quote 3 Just add a CD-RW

Darren

[Edited by darlodge - 1/7/2004 1:05:11 PM]

lightning

Go for Toshiba. Can't go wrong really.

Don't like IBM. Bought a crap IBM laptop 2 years ago. Nothing but problems but it could have been model related. Wouldn't buy IBM again though.

darlodge

As lighting said, Toshiba make good laptops but I doubt you will get the spec you want for under 1k, might be wrong though

Darren