Anyone recommend a cheap laptop at £300-£400

For studying/school work, no real need for gaming or graphics etc.. we have tablets, Xbox etc for that. Only been looking at Dell's at the moment, anyone know any offers or recommendations.

 

If you only need it for basic program's (word, PowerPoint, web browser etc) you can probably get away with one cheaper than £300. I'd even go so far as to suggest you can get one for about £180

 

I've always thought toshiba's were good at the lower end of the price range, try and get something with an i3 processor at least, ideally an i5

 

And on the laptop theme - 1280 x 1024 screen resolution

Which ones have it ?

 

I got a recon toshiba off the guys in the market, nice 17 inch screen 6 months warranty only paid £130 for it, does everything I need it to do,

 

Have a look on eBay for argos outlet they sell refurbished laptops with years warranty, some are cracking deals at half the price of currys etc

 

I got a decent spec Toshiba laptop for about £300 6 months ago on Ebay, can't remember the seller though - sorry. Was a company though that sold loads of computer related stuff. Got delivered the next day and no issues with it.

 

Try Lenovo, IBM, made in China. Good, solid kit.

 

take a look at this company in Huddersfield matey

they have some good deals

 

have a look on the dell outlet - should be able to pick up a bargain on there mate.

 

If you're spending £300-400 you'll actually be able to get a really really good laptop with about 6gb memory and about 500gb hard drive,

 

Smack convertors....

 

If you're spending £300-£400 you'll actually be able to get a really good laptop with 5+gb memory and 500+gb hard drive.

You get a lot for your money now when it comes to laptops.

 

This is decent for the price http://m.tesco.com/mt/www.tesco.com...ndows-8-black/180-5539.prd?sc_cmp=aff_1018132

 

If I was spending £300 I'd go for this http://www.ebuyer.com/505624-asus-x501a-laptop-x501a-xx402h

If you can stretch to £500 then this would a nice one (if battery life is important to you you'll get at least 8 hours from this) http://www.ebuyer.com/442514-lenovo-ideapad-u410-ultrabook-mah9nuk

It's amazing what you can get in the £200 range these days, you used to have to pay that for a second hand one that was three years old. Personally I'd avoid the celeron / pentium processors as they can seem a bit lumpy when you've got a lot happening (like loads of browser tabs etc) although you might not notice it if you don't regularly use a more powerful system, for example if you use a relatively new system at work or something.

 

You'd struggle to get a laptop with 5gb RAM unless someone thought itd be a good idea to shove a 4 and a 1 in there.. RAM sticks normally come in 1,2,4,8 GB and most computers have 2 slots, and most manufacturers like to put the same size in both. I built my PC myself, so I have 4 slots, with 8GB in each, more than I'll ever need in other words

 

Future proofing!