o/t Laptops

[DJ Leon]

I'm going to buy one. Anybody got any recommendations?

 

[Wilko]

Ive got a little dell laptop - absolutely superb. Go on to their website, you cannot go wrong with a dell IMHO

 

[Bozza]

My good employer's have just changed mine to an HP compaq nx9005.

It's not spectacular, but it does everything well - large and bright screen, decent sized keyboard, solidly built and DVD player etc.

I didn't get to choose it, but looked up some reviews when I got it and they all seem broadly positive...

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/notebooks/0,39023985,39117118,00.htm

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h504.htm

It's quite a big fella though, but I don't seem to have any trouble carting it about to and from the office every day, and abroad when I need to travel.

 

[DJ Leon]

Which one have you got Wilko?

 

[Beach Hut]

Dell ones are superb - got a new C400 at work and they are the dogs bollocks and Dell do some superb offers at the moment.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I've got the nx9005, too Bozza, blinding little thing for the price (£599 back in October when I got it) though my CD re-writer's up the creek at the mo. Music's a bit tinny, but it is a cheap job. Well worth the cash imho.

 

[Wilko]

Which one have you got Wilko?

Inspiron 1100 - I know that it is an older model now but serves me well enough, I will definitely stick with Dell when i upgrade.

 

[Cian]

Dell 1100 or Dell 1150 for low end

Dell 5100 or Dell 5150 for mid range

Dell Latitude (any in production) for ultra portables, business, etc

Panasonic Toughbook if you're a builder...

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Dell are good quality and excellent value for money. I have a Dell at work.

I have Sony Vaio at home. It's good quality, smart and reasonably compact, comes with a decent range of software, a non-premium rate helpline and you can pick one up for about £800.

 

[Long Saulty Seagull]

Apple G4 Powerbook. Go on, be different.

17" G4 Powerbook

17" screen.
Superdrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) - Burn your own DVD's
Mac OS X (Unix Based) - Stability guaranteed.
Bluetooth and Wireless built in.
ATI Radeon 9700 Graphics Card.

Does everything a Windows laptop does and more. You can even get Office for it, if you do insist on using Microsoft products.

And no nasty Windows viruses.

 

[ManxSeagull]

My good employer's have just changed mine to an HP compaq nx9005.

It's not spectacular, but it does everything well - large and bright screen, decent sized keyboard, solidly built and DVD player etc.

I didn't get to choose it, but looked up some reviews when I got it and they all seem broadly positive...

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/notebooks/0,39023985,39117118,00.htm

http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h504.htm

It's quite a big fella though, but I don't seem to have any trouble carting it about to and from the office every day, and abroad when I need to travel.

I got a Hewlett Packard nx7010 about two months ago for work. Superb machine, 1.7GHZ centrino processor, integral wireless technology, 40GB hard drive, 512MB memory, combined DVD/CD Writer, SD card reader, widescreen display with resolution of 1280 x 800.

The centrino processor allows me up to 5 hours useage on battery, although when using the wireless technology the battery life diminishes.

Although the processor speed is slower, I have not noticed any difference in speed to my 3.06GHZ P4 desktop at home.

Cost approx £1,100 inc vat from Dabs.

 

[Beach Hut]

I really think you will be hard pressed to find a better deal them Dell at present.

Commercially they have really got their act together. I have a desktop from them at home which was around £600 which is superb and I would think their laptops are the same.

Only downside is product support from India - not the greatest communicators

 

[Southy]

Just bought a 14' iBook, absolutely superb. £799, i Tunes, iMovie, Garageband, airport wireless and runs on OSX which pisses all over XP. Made the switch from microsoft and undestand what all those mac bores have been going on about now.

 

[Jameson]

My office supplied me with a Dell Latitude D800 which is great.

My daughter's off to Uni in September and I will probably get her Dell laptop - does anyone know what sort of specification would be best? I think she will have a network point in her room but I don't suppose she will need a top end business machine, rather something capable for normal Internet functions?

 

[TonyW]

Wouldn't use anything Dell-related as a bloddy door-stop.
Crap components!!!!!!!!!

 

[perseus]

I borrowed a Toshiba and it was crap. Well, it didn't work and crashed so I could only use it in safe mode.

I am looking for a laptop for presentations and downloading photographs which does not have to be so powerful. the secondhand ones seem a bit expensive at £300 or so, and a new one at £700 seems a better bet?

 

[seagull over sevenoaks]

the HP range are pretty good. Dell's are really good if you get a good one and really bad if you're unlucky if you get a bad one. And that's the problem. Dell's reputation is for buying whatever components are in cheapest supply at time of construction. Its therefore a bit random as to waht you get.

Do not under any circumstances buy a toshiba. They look great and seem to have a really good specification but they are unrelaible and Tosh support is shite. If done over 1/2 million £s of Tosh business into my two biggest customers in the last year and the only reason I can't sell them anythng else is the cost of replacing their entire stock.

DON'T BUY TOSHIBA LAPTOPS!!

 

[northstandnorth]

love my acer.
aspire1310
dvd writer
2.6ghz amd
40 gig h/drive

2 year warranty

years interest free at dabs.com

and only 800 squid

 

[glosterseagul]

Just bought a 14' iBook, absolutely superb. £799, i Tunes, iMovie, Garageband, airport wireless and runs on OSX which pisses all over XP. Made the switch from microsoft and undestand what all those mac bores have been going on about now.

That is the whole point! Mac users go on about 'IT' so much because apple is easier and better. ....and cant understand why people dont want to listen.

You can get Microstuff word, excell and all.

Go for a a PowerBook 15" that's wot me's got

 

[Jameson]

I borrowed a Toshiba and it was crap. Well, it didn't work and crashed so I could only use it in safe mode.

I am looking for a laptop for presentations and downloading photographs which does not have to be so powerful. the secondhand ones seem a bit expensive at £300 or so, and a new one at £700 seems a better bet?

Dell have a special offer on Inspiron 510 right now - free delivery etc....a tad over £700 which seems pretty good to me. Go to their web site and check it out:

.http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen