I have £400 to spend on a laptop, don't really want to spend anymore than this...

i went into tesco today and saw this.. Gateway MT6223B Laptop - Tesco.Direct

@ £399.97

seems like a nice bit of kit, but if i am honest i am not overly trick on laptops... any advise or suggestions would be great!!

ta chris.

 

Its not a bad bit of kit, but I'd suggest getting some more memory for it. It has 1GB-256MB for the graphics card leaves you 744MB for the OS and I would imagine Vista could do with a bit more to run smoothly.

Cheers

Matt

 

being in the I.T game I would say stay well away from Gateway

 

£410.07 or less buys Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop AMD dualcore, 2gig, 120Gb, dvdrw, ati graphics - HotUKDeals Forum

 

check out these auctions:

eBay Seller: thechef01: Laptops, Drives Storage items on eBay.co.uk

He's basically Dell's outlet for canceled orders.

Often find them 20%+ under retail

 

Go with Dell. You won't go too far wrong then

 

The Dell Online Store: Build Your System or this one for £327.82

 

There is a review of the Gateway MT6825B in this months What Laptop. They are doing a test on laptops under £500.

 

Gateway aftersales support is famed for being one of the worst out there, (and the machine reliability sometimes isn't great either). I personally wouldn't touch them with a very long bargepole.

Can't go wrong with a Dell. We've bought loads of them at work over the last few years, and never had any problems at all. In fact I'm typing this on a Dell laptop

 

Check my thread

https://www.scoobynet.com/computer-r...ghlight=laptop

I bought the 5044 and it has been superb so far.

Chop

 

How did you find that deal ?

 

You're right, but just for info, I'm running Vista Home premium on an Aspire £400 jobbie, with 512MB. Ideally I'd increase the RAM (but I have a 2GB PC as well), but I run Photoshop and it's surprisingly smooth.

Vista Business needs 1GB minumum IIRC

 

Trade secret Dunk lol

 

Just bought 4 anyway Nice bit of Quidco commision

Not much more than the one I bought last week and dual core too.

 

Tut tut...
And I see you posted that 'deal' on another forum this morning too without so much as a thanks to me!! lol
Incidentally,I didn't find it there, it was from one of the other forums that I frequent!

 

Why 4? for profit?

yes I'm cheeky

 

Someone beat me to it with the offer too, but thanks Nick

Not for profit, just for workmates who've been on the lookout since I snagged the £299 deal a couple of weeks back.

 

No worries,you can also get the same laptop with XP instead of Vista (Same price)

The Dell Online Store: Build Your System

 

all those above dell offers have no expired typical, as don't get paid for another week...