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Pete. Omega King Offline Makes Driving Pleasurable Again . Posts: 10449 Nr J28 of the M1 Gender: Drives: Black 02 Omega DTi. Black 56 Monaro VXR. Red 97 Rover 114 SLi.	A Laptop question 15. Nov 2009 at 20:26 Liz is wanting to get herself a laptop & i was wondering what would folk recommend for the £300.00-£350.00 mark? Would like Duo Core & 2GB Ram min spec The best/cheapest place to get one would also be a bonus Thanks
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: A Laptop question Reply #1 - 15. Nov 2009 at 20:45 Remember, chipset is the most important part, not cpu and ram At that price point, Intel 965 is minimum chipset you should go for. At that price, its likely you'll have integrated vga (x3100 in 965).
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cam2502 Senior Member Offline Posts: 880 dumfries,scotland Gender: Drives: silver 2001 BMW 318i se	Re: A Laptop question Reply #2 - 15. Nov 2009 at 22:09 not being technically minded in the slightest,id like to know what i should go for as well ( sorry to but in on your thread ) i want to play football manager 2010 and use my vodafone dongle surfing net with it on a nightshift so any ideas what would be best? obviously the cheaper the better
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Plomien Omega Knight Offline Rescue the beer and drink the maiden Posts: 1724 Swansea Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 Tourer	Re: A Laptop question Reply #3 - 15. Nov 2009 at 22:12 I have been looking at the same for the money go for a Toshiba and avoid ACER
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Ziad Omega Knight Offline They say money talks,but all mine says is Goodbye! Posts: 1054 Bahrain Gender: Drives: 2000 Opel Omega 3.0 V6 (Sold), 2008 BMW 330i convertible hardtop (totaled), Nissan Armada SE 5.7L V8 & 2011 Mitsubishi Lancer GT	Re: A Laptop question Reply #4 - 15. Nov 2009 at 22:14 Plomien wrote on 15. Nov 2009 at 22:12: I have been looking at the same for the money go for a Toshiba and avoid ACER Agreed
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: A Laptop question Reply #5 - 15. Nov 2009 at 22:15 Plomien wrote on 15. Nov 2009 at 22:12: I have been looking at the same for the money go for a Toshiba and avoid ACER Any of the 'big 3' lappy makers - Dell, Tosh, HP/Compaq - should be fine nowadays.
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Plomien Omega Knight Offline Rescue the beer and drink the maiden Posts: 1724 Swansea Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 Tourer	Re: A Laptop question Reply #6 - 15. Nov 2009 at 22:44 http://direct.asda.com/HP-Compaq-CQ61-15.6ins-Laptop-with-2gb-RAM---160gb-hard-d... looks good
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Omegadoha, Desert Member Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1357 Doha, Qatar Drives: 3.2 V6 2002	Re: A Laptop question Reply #7 - 16. Nov 2009 at 03:38 I've had ACER twice before and found them to be OK. Mind you my lastest HP bought from Currys over Christmas; the microphone packed up on it. So I guess they are all prone to faults.
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Pete. Omega King Offline Makes Driving Pleasurable Again . Posts: 10449 Nr J28 of the M1 Gender: Drives: Black 02 Omega DTi. Black 56 Monaro VXR. Red 97 Rover 114 SLi.	Re: A Laptop question Reply #8 - 16. Nov 2009 at 08:15 Thank you all. She was looking at an Acer, glad i asked I have a Toshiba & i'm pleased with mine so i guess we may be getting Liz one too Thank you all again
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Re: A Laptop question
Reply #9 - 16. Nov 2009 at 09:56

agree with Omegadoha too, had Acers before, never had a problem with them. About 5/6 years ago they really were a bit poor, but in recent times they really stepped up. Better build, loads of kit for the money.

I was a techy at a school, and the laptop for teachers scheme used acers, we had 170 of them come in. In the year or so i was there, none failed, or had any hardware issues. Thats going some for teachers as they were abused quite badly Thumbs Up!

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Do you break V6's as often as TheBoy? Then you need tunnie's towing services, recovery costs are just the humiliation of being towed by 2/3's of an engine

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Allenm Senior Member Offline Posts: 591 Milton Keynes Gender: Drives: '99 2.5 V6 CDX saloon manual	Re: A Laptop question Reply #10 - 16. Nov 2009 at 12:38 I have had a couple of Acers as well. no real problem with them except the connection for the power supply is really poor. Have had to do a few repairs in the past. But the laptop itself is fine, one of the best screens I have seen.
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Reply #11 - 16. Nov 2009 at 13:34

Just for the info, in our biggest IT hardware store they checked the laptops for malfunctions in warranty period.
Acer was twice better than HP and had two times lower warranty claims .
And as for Toshiba ones, cheap Toshiba models have proven extremly unreliable. More expensive ones are probably the best on the market, but avoid cheap ones

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Reply #12 - 16. Nov 2009 at 14:50

tunnie wrote on 16. Nov 2009 at 09:56:

agree with Omegadoha too, had Acers before, never had a problem with them. About 5/6 years ago they really were a bit poor, but in recent times they really stepped up. Better build, loads of kit for the money.

I was a techy at a school, and the laptop for teachers scheme used acers, we had 170 of them come in. In the year or so i was there, none failed, or had any hardware issues. Thats going some for teachers as they were abused quite badly Thumbs Up!

Poor teachers! Grin

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Lazydocker Omega King Offline Victim of Pinky's Power Trip! Posts: 11336 Woodbridge, Suffolk Gender: Drives: 2003 3.2 Elite Estate LPG Converted, inspected and Certified	Re: A Laptop question Reply #13 - 16. Nov 2009 at 15:38 Both of us have Acers and they're pretty good TBH
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