good place to get laptops (UK)?

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hi guys well im going to be starting my a-levels this September and would like to get a laptop to do my work on (i want to be able to do my work where ever i go, cos the school pc's are rubbish most of em are still pentium 3 ffs) anyway i need it to be atleast a p4 2.0ghz, atleast 1gb ram and 256mb gfx (and preferably media centre for os)

[Steve]

256mb gfx might cost ya! :0

i'd probably go for a dell (decent warranty / repair / spares) or a Sony - ncie but usually costly.

please stay away from Acer even if it does have a cheap price.

there is a decent Dell on 'clockers this week with over £100 knocked off it: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...aLT_2d010_2dDE but it is XP home.

huge-ass-wide-screen

prety much meets your specs to.... but what about budget?


//edit - i'm nit sure that laptops come with Media Centre? i haven't seen one, but i havent looked so hard. i know there is only a limited ammount of equipment that MC supports, so i dont know if laptops are fully compaitble. sry i dont really know much more info on it.

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thx m8, my budget is prob around 800-900 max of 1200.. lol wont be getting it until atleast august anyway so hoping theres further price drops

the dells have MC on them, well atleast the 2 i was lookn at

[Steve]

ah sry, should have looked harder

[milk]

wow, i thought this thread said lap dance, and i was like humm i might go visit some time might as well find out.

[Scott]

why stay away from acer? I have one and it works awesome

[Lakie]

can highly recomend toshiba...

[Steve]

Originally posted by Scott
why stay away from acer? I have one and it works awesome

because i spend most of time fixing / replaceing parts in acer equipment.

[Capers]

Wouldn't assembly for Acer equipment be done in different places for UK and US?

[Steve]

most definately

[Steve]

might be worth checking out BB: http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/09...ok_roundup_uk/

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thx m8