anyone know of any good laptop deals going ATM?

[geoff]

S-i-L's has just died

Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap

[Toby]

We bought a few of these recently and have been happy with them.

We bought some of them new from Dell a few years ago too, and they seem to have lasted well, I use one of them every day in the office.

[The Natural Philosopher]

There are a hellofalot in our local S/H PC retailer.

What's died? about 50% are fixable, although sometimes not at an effective cost.

ASUS and samsung seem to have some cheap ones around.

[pcb1962]

They're all cheap these days. I paid £2,300 for my first laptop - Pentium 150, 11 inch screen. You can get a top of the range Macbook Pro for that now.

[The Natural Philosopher]

cheap to me is sub £300 if possible

[pcb1962]

How about this:

OS, that's up to you. My youngest has had a zoostorm running Ubuntu for about 3 years now, still going strong, Only issue with it is the sound output is a bit quiet, I expect they've sorted that by now.

[The Natural Philosopher]

that's not a bad deal. About the same as this desktop in overall crunch terms.

Sadly the 'intel integrated graphics' are a well known linux DOG and getting decent video speeds with flash etc is not easy.,

[Martin Brown]

How dead is it?

How bog standard, and how cheap?

Secondhand or end of line units from the likes of Morgan, eBuyer or Cex are probably worth a look at but you should decide what she wants to use it for. Cheap laptops struggle playing games or video editing...

Always do your homework and check the reviews of anything you consider buying to find out what annoying features it has.

they have a 10% off sale if you put in the right code.

A couple of years back one of Tesco/Sainsbury can't recall which one had a deal on a rather good model end of line that was £100 below the online price so it is worth scouting round for bargains - especially at this time of year and in the current economic climate.

Avoid Sony unless you want to pay extra and have to struggle with their "improved" customised hardware and its drivers. My newish laptop is a Samsung RF711 on Win7 which is pretty good performance but not cheap.

I have an aversion to even numbered Windows releases.

[Mike Tomlinson]

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[stuart noble]

Missed the beginning of this but the Chromebook looks promising if you only need a browser

[geoff]

Not sure, butr she lives in Liege and would describe the car she likes by its colour

[geoff]

Pink Acer Aspire Ones

Yes - I got one of those for £139 inc delivery

That's the sort of bargain I'm hoping for

[george - dicegeorge]

they make them in Portchester Hants so if something fails you can take it back.

You dont have to buy windows if you want Ubuntu.

Got my last laptop there, great.

[g]

[The Natural Philosopher]

just an aside. I managed to successfully install linux mint MAYA on my acer aspire 1510 though there were some failures to detect hardware requiring manual loading of drivers... BUT don't attempt to install such a pretty face on half a gig or RAM.

It runs like a dog swapping and thrashing and there's no disk caching cos there's no spare RAM. :-)

It took 5 hours to install, like that.

Off to up it to 2GB tomorrow :-)

But really for a basic browsing/ e-reading/ watch a video sort of laptop its superb apart from that.

[geoff]

But hardly "Bog standard, nothing fancy, just cheap"

[The Nomad]

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[Andy Champ]

+1

(though I only buy bits there - and mostly because they have a local branch with internet prices)

Andy

[DrTeeth]

Box shifters, have a few similar sites, used them 3 times and would again.

[DrTeeth]

The latest ones are no too bad at all and can run Cinnamon - 3D acceleration required. Even those in my netbooks work fine.

[geoff]

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That's looking a bit more like it