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Old 27 March 2006, 01:22 PM
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Question Laptop recommendation - £500-700ish ?

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Can anyone recommend a laptop approximately in the above price bracket please? Any good deals out there?

Not a huge amount of gaming will be needed, but a good screen would be a bonus.

Cheers

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Old 27 March 2006, 03:05 PM
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hard to beat dell atm. ex wife bought one and i have to say i can't fault it. cracking price if you take the over inflated price for the warranty off it. real nice 15.4 inch screen. dvd burner, 512meg, 80 gig hd, xp media centre, wireless network adapter etc. etc. about £500 delivered
Old 27 March 2006, 03:38 PM
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I'll check them out, cheers bigsinky.
Old 27 March 2006, 04:05 PM
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ACER also seem to offer reasonable VFM at the moment, check out www.shopacer.co.uk

Having said that Im using a dell at the moment and cant fault it so far.
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This is the best VFM, I have one and its the biz http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/82394...y-mx6635b.html
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Work just bought me an Acer 5003. 1.8Ghz Turion 64, 1Gb DDR RAM, 100Gb HD, DVD Dual layer burner, 15.4" widescreen, wireless, about £560 delivered. Cant fault it really, well so far anyway.

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Thanks again guys.

The GAteway seems to be a good buy. I'll check out the 64 bit Acer now

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cclcomputers do acer at reasonable prices
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