What Laptop for £500-£600 Mark?

[les.tansey]

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?
 

[JC]

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 

[Jay]

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

[jeynesey]

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

[Ridg]

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.

[Steve30]

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

[les.tansey]

Cheers for the input so far guys  . 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

I'd quite like a 17" screen aswell

[gizzywizzy]

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.

[bobotheclown]

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.

[justalex81]

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!