bigmac

Promised my lad a laptop to take to Univ with him.

Want to spend < £500.

Needs to have
- Built in web cam (so we can skype him to see what he's up to )
- wi-fi (not too fussed about Bluetooth)
- reasonably fast
- nice screen (as I'm sure he'll want to watch films etc on it)
- reasonble RAM (4gb)
- reasonble size hard drive 320gb+

other than that, that's it. Not really read up on which is the best CPU at the moment.

Not fussed about the brand, as long as their reputation is very good.

Got my daughter a Dell 2 years ago (17" inspiron - not sure spec), but she's been pleased with it.

Cheers, Mark.

Coffin Dodger

Dell are pretty good value for something fairly standard. Look out for voucher codes + cashback too, can save a few ££

Rob Day

iTrader: (78)

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Product/id/910208

Found it on here: http://www.hotukdeals.com/search?act...eywords=laptop

This changes daily so keep looking as very good offers dont stick around for long, plus any incorrect pricing is a bonus, ie I bought a PS3 game for £1.89 the other day, its hould have been £18.90 - But i still got the game ;-)

Rob

d7nmr

TBH mate i wouldnt realy spend out £500 on a laptop, talking from experience and being a uni student myself u hardly use your laptop for work. its mainly used for music, movies like u mentioned etc. What i done was brought a contract phone and got a free laptop with it, i believe carphone warehouse still do these offers. i killed 2 birds with one stone :P, and now im in my third year and the laptop is working fine, in fact im using it now or go on ebay and find something better for less than £500, personally wouldnt buy a used laptop but its just a suggestion.

Just trying to help bud and save you some money, hope it helped thou

Gregsti01

iTrader: (1)

The Asus range are probably the best laptops on the market,service and after sales excellent,my friend who sell computers has been selling Asus for years,other than human damage software problems least hassle laptop.

jura11

iTrader: (7)

Yep,Asus is great maker,but little bit pricey.

If you really want Laptop which is good and fast,go for Dell 1564,1764(CPU i5,4Gb ram,500 GB HDD,GPU is just Intel HD,but is good for movies music,and some older games),or try PC World(free laptop with mobile broadband,i brought one via this and 25£ for laptop and mobile broadband its good value for money)

Gregsti01

iTrader: (1)

PC World the Kwikfit of the computer market

bigmac

Great suggestions. I'll spend some time going through these, with my lad, over the weekend.

Ant

Spoil him and get a MacBook pro he can use his student discount