A friend is looking for a sub £300 laptop. Needs to have a DVD drive so the netbooks are all out. Acer, Asus, HP, Toshiba all make base models within budget but wondered if anyone knew of any good deals floating about?
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Here you go http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/4x_vostro_a860?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd
Good enough machine, Vista Home basic, and battery only lasts an hour but apart from that dead on for a cheapie.
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Here you go http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/4x_vostro_a860?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd
Good enough machine, Vista Home basic, and battery only lasts an hour but apart from that dead on for a cheapie.
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Is this a problem for all Vostro machines?
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I couldnt comment, i imagine this laptop is cheap because it cuts costs on batteries etc, next version up in the Vostro range boasts about better battery life. You get what you pay for.
If you intend to use this machine without a power supply you will be annoyed when it only lasts 1 hour.
Ours is in the kitchen 90% of the time so no problem
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I couldnt comment, i imagine this laptop is cheap because it cuts costs on batteries etc, next version up in the Vostro range boasts about better battery life. You get what you pay for.
If you intend to use this machine without a power supply you will be annoyed when it only lasts 1 hour.
Ours is in the kitchen 90% of the time so no problem
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That's the thing with laptops these days IMHO.
I remember when good laptops cost £1500-£2000+ (10+ years ago), and they were never enough for what you wanted, hence continual upgrades etc.
It's quite astonishing that £300-400 buys a perfectly good machine that will serve all purposes for 90% of users. All have the usual wi-fi, DVD burners, decent size HD/RAM etc.
Apart from the odd new feature, the last 3 or 4 laptops that I've owned have all done basically the same tasks, only replaced them when they've finally died of physical faults (screens, keyboards, batteries, charging sockets etc).
4 laptops back (7/8 years ago?), the one I was using still came with Windows XP, P4 1.8, half a GB of RAM, 40GB HD and a DVD drive/CD burner. I'm sure it'd be fine for browsing the net today etc
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I remember when good laptops cost £1500-£2000+ (10+ years ago), and they were never enough for what you wanted, hence continual upgrades etc.
It's quite astonishing that £300-400 buys a perfectly good machine that will serve all purposes for 90% of users. All have the usual wi-fi, DVD burners, decent size HD/RAM etc.
Apart from the odd new feature, the last 3 or 4 laptops that I've owned have all done basically the same tasks, only replaced them when they've finally died of physical faults (screens, keyboards, batteries, charging sockets etc).
4 laptops back (7/8 years ago?), the one I was using still came with Windows XP, P4 1.8, half a GB of RAM, 40GB HD and a DVD drive/CD burner. I'm sure it'd be fine for browsing the net today etc
Will
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