Reasonably high end : £1000 - £1500

Toshiba/Dell/Sony/something else?

Centrino/Pentium 4/something else?

From manufacturer/shop/web/something else

DVD writer - yes/no/something else;)

What spec and what will you do with it I hear you say...well I'll cop out of that and say I believe I need a laptop that's gonna cost me £1000-£1500!

TIA
Martin

I can recommend either the Toshiba Satalite A20 series where you can get DVD-RW, P4 2.6GHz, 1Gb Ram, 15" screen, 128Mb Nvidia card.

Or the Dell Inspiron 8200 where similar specs are available.

I bought an Acer Travelmate 803LCiB a couple of months back from www.laptop-shop.co.uk

Was the PC Pro A-List winner at the time, dunno if it still is.
Excellent spec. I really can't fault it.

Have a look at

www.lifebook.co.uk

Some of the models come with a three year onsite warranty

Email me if you are interested.

Avoid the Tosh 6100 at present as there may be some quality issues.

The Fujitsu Lifebooks are good value.

personally I'd buy an Apple PowerBook and run Virtual PC if i had to run PC apps


AllanB

Powerbook 12"
Awesome!! :cool::)

Good thoughts - thanks everyone. Hadn't considered the Lifebooks before - look a bit on the pricey side though :(

Bit of a luddite when it comes to PCs vs Mac unfortunately - gonna have to be PC I'm afraid ;)

www.getech.co.uk have good prices (using the higher education student discount - about £100 off all other prices I've seen) - any one used them? Customer satisfaction views?

Any more for any more?

I'd certainly recommend a Centrino based model. Very fast and excellent battery life.

Those are the RRP's and I should be able to do a SN discount. Remember that some of them come with a three year warranty.

Fly to the states and buy a Toshiba from somewhere like Best Buy or Circuit City. You can get a Toshiba with a 17" screen for $1899 (£1200). That is about £700.00 cheaper than getting it here. The only question is getting it through HM customs. :)

NB. They all have unversal power supplies so all you need to do is buy a plug adaptor for £2.00.

Willie

YHM:D

Ive got a mate who has a good deal runnin at the moment;


Intel 2.4 Ghz Celeron Pc
60GB Hard drive
15” LCD Monitor with 3yr Warranty
CD Rom AND CD Rewriter
256Mb DDR Memory
MS Scroll Mouse, Keyboard, Modem, Speakers and Network.
Loaded with Windows XP Home

£599+vat

I am tempted by one of these..

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/sho...ProductID=1098

or one of these:

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/sho...&SubCategoryID