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Offline Mikester

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Laptop under £400.
« on: 21 September 2012, 10:44 »
Im looking to purchase a laptop for a family member. The use will be internet browsing and a bit of word/excel. No gaming etc. They do not want a tablet.

Restrictions are:

Under £400.
Needs to be bought and in my hands by Saturday afternoon. (So probably from a high street retailer)

What brand models do you think?

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Re: Laptop under £400.
« Reply #1 on: 21 September 2012, 10:53 »
try pc world they always have some sort of offers on. a relative of mine got a hp laptop 4gb ram 200gb hdd and it also had itel i3 all for under 400 bills
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Re: Laptop under £400.
« Reply #2 on: 21 September 2012, 14:41 »
Indeed it probably will be pc world. However what brands are best?


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Re: Laptop under £400.
« Reply #5 on: 22 September 2012, 02:40 »
Currently pootling around in our family wagen, a Tiguan SEL 😂

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Re: Laptop under £400.
« Reply #6 on: 28 September 2012, 14:31 »
Might actually get one of these for myself..

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/asus-x501u-xx049v-15-6-laptop-white-14442750-pdt.html

based on the fact i actually work in pc world, i really would not recommend this, if you look deep into the specs of this machine, the processor is less than, get ready for it, an iphone! yet it has to run a full on windows 7 system, you would be better going with the same basic machine, but the one at £329. the processor is an intel core i3, which is more than twice the core clock speed.

10% cost for 150% extra performance really..

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Re: Laptop under £400.
« Reply #7 on: 29 September 2012, 13:03 »
Cool, I ordered the HP G6 (i3 model) in the end and its actually pretty decent, for what it costs and what I need to use it for  :cool: £349 but I got £30 off so I'm happy  :evil:
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