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"Considering buying a laptop."

So, advantages, disadvantages, links to good deals (under about £300, preferably, but ebay etc. is all good).

Just something to store all my music and porno on.

Thankee.

So, advantages, disadvantages, links to good deals (under about £300, preferably, but ebay etc. is all good).

Just something to store all my music and porno on.

Thankee.

You are going to have a lot of trouble buying a decent laptop for £300. May I suggest you up your budget to about £500 or £600. Check out the Dell 510m, or the Acer website.

Oh, and you want a Pentium M Centrino (not celeron, not dothan) for your processor.

gerrid wrote:
> Oh, and you want a Pentium M Centrino (not celeron, not dothan) for
> your processor.

That'll definitely push up the budget. But then again I haven't seen a laptop for £300 or under that's anything at all.

Haha, £300 for a laptop is shocking. £500 is ok if you only wanna do word processing. £1000+ is what you'll spend for anything that can play games at a decent resolution.

However, £500+ for a desktop PC will get you something far better than the £1000 laptop.

Check out the prices of the laptops here: [URL]http://www.studentcomputers.co.uk/packard-bell-laptops/cheap-laptops-uk.htm[/URL]

Right, if I push the budget up to £500 then, will this be enough to get a fairly decent one.

Thanks for pointing out the Processor point gerrid, I'll take note of that.

It depends what you want to do. It'll get you a fairly decent laptop if all you're doing is office-based stuff, but anything game related and you're looking at £900 minimum for something worth buying.

[URL]http://www.acer.co.uk[/URL]

For a more specific reccomendation:
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Does it have to be a laptop?

Portability aside, you can get a lot more for your money buying (or building) a desktop.

Good luck with that.