[steveyj]

What would be a good student laptop approximately £250 or less? I don't want it for games etc, purely for work. Cheers

[FuLLuPMepOrtION]

you'll NEED a mac. All the hipsters have one.

However.. if you live in the real world, for 250.00 a refurbished model, such as http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compaq...84724-pdt.html may be a good idea, good performance, good price.

[steveyj]

(Original post by FuLLuPMepOrtION)
you'll NEED a mac. All the hipsters have one.

However.. if you live in the real world, for 250.00 a refurbished model, such as http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/compaq...84724-pdt.html may be a good idea, good performance, good price.

I have a mac already and I hate it for processing documents... (its a very old one though!)

Thanks for the link

[Ykhan]

look online for a fujistu ah531. they have good spec and appear good value for money

[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by Ykhan)
look online for a fujistu ah531. they have good spec and appear good value for money

It's a 9 month old laptop design that's over £100 over budget.

[Repressor]

http://tier1online.com/Product/5356-...Hz_141_TFT.htm

Could also be a very good choice...

(Their website is sometimes a little hit-and-miss.)

You could also risk it on the less well refurbed units....

http://tier1online.com/Product/5356-...Hz_141_TFT.htm
http://tier1online.com/Product/5356-...Hz_141_TFT.htm

[Skorzeny]

For the love of God don't get anything made by Apple.

Sorry hipsters, but using slave labour and charging hundreds more than a standard PC with an equivalent spec just doesn't do it for me.

[Gofre]

(Original post by Skorzeny)
For the love of God don't get anything made by Apple.

Sorry hipsters, but using slave labour and charging hundreds more than a standard PC with an equivalent spec just doesn't do it for me.

Aside from this being an entirely irrelevant post in a thread where the OP has said his budget is £250, you do realise Apple's machines are produced by the same factories used by the vast majority of major manufacturers, right? It's an industry-wide issue while the likes of Samsung, Dell, Sony etc are all using places like Foxconn.

[Sheep]

I was going to get my own laptop then my dad just went ahead and got me the cheapest, crappiest laptop he could find on google

it was a £150 netbook from ebay

it can barely run notepad

pretty much completely useless

so you should probably not cheap out, spend a decent amount for something you can actually use properly

[djshine88]

Honestly, get a tablet.

I Know many would disagree but it's great for taking notes and etc.

If you require a laptop - don't spend over £500 on one. If you spend more than that on Windows, you will never get the value that you really deserve from it.

I can't really say much in terms of models as im an apple fanboy - have imac, macbook, macbook pro, and 2 ipads (2 and new ipad)


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[websitedesign25]

I was traveling to get my own laptop again my dad just went advanced and got me the cheapest, crappiest laptop he could acquisition on google.

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[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by djshine88)
Honestly, get a tablet.

I Know many would disagree but it's great for taking notes and etc.

If you require a laptop - don't spend over £500 on one. If you spend more than that on Windows, you will never get the value that you really deserve from it.

I can't really say much in terms of models as im an apple fanboy - have imac, macbook, macbook pro, and 2 ipads (2 and new ipad)


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I was going to 'bold' parts of your post that were ridiculous and wrote 'lolwut' but then I realised I'd be bolding the whole post.

[ANARCHY__]

(Original post by djshine88)
Honestly, get a tablet.

I Know many would disagree but it's great for taking notes and etc.

If you require a laptop - don't spend over £500 on one. If you spend more than that on Windows, you will never get the value that you really deserve from it.

I can't really say much in terms of models as im an apple fanboy - have imac, macbook, macbook pro, and 2 ipads (2 and new ipad)


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How many braincells do you have by the way?

[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by ANARCHY__)
How many braincells do you have by the way?

There's an app for that...

[JGR]

If you're on a budget, refurbished machines can be extremely good value for money (half price or so).
As for recommendations, given that there are so many similar models out there, you're better off seeing what you can find reduced and/or in budget, and then comparing them to each other.

(My laptop, an Acer Aspire 5738, cost me £300 from www.studentcomputers.co.uk, and if bought new would have cost me about twice that)

[ANARCHY__]

(Original post by Mad Vlad)
There's an app for that...

Glad to see you are still on the forums.

[Mad Vlad]

(Original post by ANARCHY__)
Glad to see you are still on the forums.

I aim to please.

[djshine88]

(Original post by ANARCHY__)
How many braincells do you have by the way?

Quite a lot why??


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[dan_oufc]

(Original post by JGR)
If you're on a budget, refurbished machines can be extremely good value for money (half price or so).
As for recommendations, given that there are so many similar models out there, you're better off seeing what you can find reduced and/or in budget, and then comparing them to each other.

(My laptop, an Acer Aspire 5738, cost me £300 from www.studentcomputers.co.uk, and if bought new would have cost me about twice that)

I bought an Acer Aspire 5535 about 3 years ago from that company (am typing on it now) and had some serious issues with it to start with, would need some serious restoration of faith if I were to buy from them again.

I'm off to uni next month and looking to get a new laptop, have a budget of about £400 max, only looking for something I can do all the usual Microsoft Office stuff, surf the net, play the occasional game (mainly Football Manager) and run fairly basic programs on. Looking for decent battery life though, longer than 2-3 hours and a fairly decent screen.
Don't suppose anyone has any recommendations as I'm not too sure where to start looking.

Cheers.

[gonnabesomething]

(Original post by dan_oufc)
I bought an Acer Aspire 5535 about 3 years ago from that company (am typing on it now) and had some serious issues with it to start with, would need some serious restoration of faith if I were to buy from them again.

I'm off to uni next month and looking to get a new laptop, have a budget of about £400 max, only looking for something I can do all the usual Microsoft Office stuff, surf the net, play the occasional game (mainly Football Manager) and run fairly basic programs on. Looking for decent battery life though, longer than 2-3 hours and a fairly decent screen.
Don't suppose anyone has any recommendations as I'm not too sure where to start looking.

Cheers.

This is a good one, meets all requirements and supposedly the most reliable brand atm (used to be IBM before they sold their PC division to Lenovo, a Chinese firm).

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenov...in&affid=85386