Xs
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Need a new laptop, mostly for browsing and downloading but also I like to mess about on traktor sometimes too. No gaming or video watching etc, have a tv and xbox for that.
Looking to spend around £300-350.
Cheers.
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Xs
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oh and I also like to play football manager 
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Sam
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Anything other than HP/Compaq.
[Edited on 23-11-2010 by Sam]
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Xs
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I dont know enough about what spec I need though to decide. Had Acers and Dells before and a Samsung which all seemed ok but just need suggestions on spec and models. Also where is cheapest.
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Sam
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I think you'd need to spend about £400 ideally on an OK/good spec laptop TBH.
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3CorsaMeal
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whats wrong with HP, or do you mean just in that price bracket?
mine is an HP and really good
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Hammer
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The Dell I have has been on and off for 5 years+ solid and is still running fine and I use it like a desktop at night time.
Can't see past them personally and their warranty is good as well.
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
whats wrong with HP, or do you mean just in that price bracket?
mine is an HP and really good
A lot of their laptops in recent years are of shite build quality Jim, and they even shipped out laptops to retailers knowing that some of the graphics chips on the motherboards overheated and caused things like the wireless adapter to stop working (they still don't admit they fucked up - see http://www.nvidiadefect.com/ for some light reading).
I would recommend Dell but I'm not 100% on their build quality either TBH.
Although not a powerful beast, I recently bought a Samsung R530 laptop and apart from having to reinstall Windows 7 on it (not a laptop fault as such) it's been brilliant and the battery lasts for hours.
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Russ
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Considered a mac?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
Considered a mac?
£300-350? You'll be extremely lucky to get an Intel for that sort of cash and if you do it'll be first gen bottom spec. That price range it's G4 Powerbooks and G5's.
A Dell would be my vote for that sort of cash
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Xs
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Used to use mac book pros but can't justify that kind of money just now. As I say its basically just for the internet but a netbook is too small and fiddly, so don't like them.
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