wwp8

yeah i know its too early to decide yet, but my sister has told me she is getting me a laptop for xmas, budget is £500
i haven't been doing my homework, so i don't know much of the spec i should be looking for, can anyone help?

MJW

Dell Inspiron 6400 falls into your price bracket : Pentium Dual Core 1.83Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb hard drive, DVD/RW drive, built-in wireless, 1280x800 widescreen. The only thing that really lets it down is the onboard shared graphics, but this won't matter unless you're using it for games.

16vmarc

I have the 6400. But I upgraded everything.

Muerde

I think Tesco have a good spec Fuji on the go atm, loads of disk and memory and its vista home... I would def have a look at the Dell's as for home they are great.

Fujitsu Siemens 15.4" Laptop - Tesco.Direct
£478
Graphics ATI Radeon Xpress 200M with up to 256MB HyperMemory™
Hard Drive 120Gb
Memory 2Gb (2x1Gb)
Operating System Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Optical Drive DVD Dual Layer Rewriter
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Bus 533 MHz
Processor Cache 2MB L2
Processor Model Number T5300
Processor Speed 1.73 GHz
Screen Features WXGA Widescreen
Screen Size 15.4"
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Wired Networking Port Yes

Ian

wwp8

interesting, i'm gonna bookmark this page,
managed to buy 2 mags, which this months topics are vista laptops under £500, should be a good read

Scooby Roo

I went for the Advent 7204.

Build quality ain't the best but the processor is good.
Screen OK
Wireless
17 inch screen
Vista but not had too many problems yet.

Overall 8/10

Roo