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Title: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: les.tansey on 21 June 2012, 03:23

Howdy Howdy, not been on for a while - exams and that 

What laptops do you lot reccommend? I've got around £500-£600 to spend. I've currently got a Toshiba Satellite Pro which is almost 4 yrs old and needs replacing. It's been a pretty good machine and was thinking of getting another, but my dad has a 2-3yr old one and it hasn't been great (and it was a pretty high-end one when it came out). Is it just luck of the draw, or are there a particular makes that are just way better than others.

I'd want it to have at least an i5 proccessor.

Any suggestions?
 

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: JC on 21 June 2012, 06:00

i have used and abused 2 toshibas over the years.

cant fault them to be honest.

one keeyboard failed after 3 years, but with the abuse i give it with my fat fingers I think thats good going  :wink:

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: Jay on 21 June 2012, 07:20

If you can wait a few months and save some more look at the ultrabooks, they're great !

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: jeynesey on 21 June 2012, 07:57

I just bought this a few days ago

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/toshiba-satellite-l850-161-15-6-laptop-white-12520776-pdt.html

Seems pretty good :afro:

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: Ridg on 21 June 2012, 12:01

or something like this

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/hp-folio-13-1000ea-13-3-ultrabook-silver-11884803-pdt.html

you can get an extra 10% off ultrabooks at the moment too.

Lenovo also offer some very competitive prices.

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: Steve30 on 21 June 2012, 13:31

If you can stretch your budget to £800 in the box brand new MacBook pro for sale!

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: les.tansey on 21 June 2012, 16:01

Cheers for the input so far guys  :wink:. I was pretty sweet on this one for a while:

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Satellite-L870-series/1122217/

Only problem being that I think it looks miles better in white than the black, but the black one is the better specced machine. I even rang Toshiba and asked if they could do the black one with the white casing, but they said no :cry:

I'd quite like a 17" screen aswell

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 21 June 2012, 18:03

just got a Mac Book Air, now that is an awesome piece of kit.  Very fast on start up and pretty intuitive to use....I only got it today but love it already.

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: bobotheclown on 21 June 2012, 18:12

I too would vouch for toshiba. I bought a toshiba satellite laptop back in 2001 which had an nvidia graphics chip in it. Lasted me till 2006 when it finally died.

That laptop was very reliable.

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: justalex81 on 21 June 2012, 18:23

bought the missus a toshiba. liked it so much i bought my mum one too. good solid machines. Just swap out the hideous mechanical hard drive as soon as you get it and slap an ssd in. ZOOM!

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: VW BUSH on 21 June 2012, 19:26

I've got a Dell precision, don't buy one they are poo
I also have a HP from PC world, at £600 its less than half what the Dell cost and twice as good.

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: les.tansey on 27 June 2012, 14:19

Thanks for the advice guys and girls. I decided to stick to what I like and go for this toshiba in the end: http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Satellite-L875-series/1122223/. Should be here fri/sat  :wink:

Cheers Les.

Title: Re: What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?
Post by: T_J_G on 27 June 2012, 14:31

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300728512977?item=300728512977