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need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:15 am

im goin to buy a laptop prity soon and was looking at http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... LAPTOP.htm that is top end of my budget , what do ppl this of this deal? or can some 1 recommend a better deal

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:27 am

i'm a mac but if I was going to buy a windows machine Acer is the only company I would buy with because their stuff doesn't break. My monitor is an acer monitor and i'd about 5 years old and still works like new.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:55 am

what he said.. if you go into pc world or somewhere like that you will get a pretty good laptop/deal for 500.. I wouldnt go with acer myself

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:00 am

Good power but not very good battery or graphics card. If you don't care about the good graphics and whether it's new or not and if you're using it at home, it's good.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:34 am

Don't touch Acer. Cheap cheap C***.

Samsung or Fujitsu are good brands with good back up support. As are Lenovo.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:01 pm

I have a Hewlett Packard compaq 6720s and have had it for about 5 years, Never had a problem yet, Touch wood :ayatollah:

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:06 pm

Bowmonster wrote:I have a Hewlett Packard compaq 6720s and have had it for about 5 years, Never had a problem yet, Touch wood :ayatollah:


Now you know you've just tempted fate mate :lol: :lol: ....I give the laptop another 2 weeks tops. ;) :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:26 pm

Acer are cheap and nasty,not to be confused with asus !!!
I'd go for a samsung, asus or Sony as I'm sure they pretty much use the same components

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:32 pm

There is always a better deal.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:48 pm

Marc wrote:
Bowmonster wrote:I have a Hewlett Packard compaq 6720s and have had it for about 5 years, Never had a problem yet, Touch wood :ayatollah:


Now you know you've just tempted fate mate :lol: :lol: ....I give the laptop another 2 weeks tops. ;) :ayatollah: :ayatollah:


Get back to work you :lol:

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:59 pm

Can anyone advise if this Samsung is any good?
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/national ... 232&a=1664

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:48 pm

I work for Tesco and statistically Acer have a very high returns to sales %.

They are poor quality and Acer are nightmare when it comes to resolving issues that require them to repair under manufacturers warranty.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:53 pm

Claire wrote:Can anyone advise if this Samsung is any good?
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/national ... 232&a=1664


all depends what your gong to use it for claire? to be fair for a little extra you could get something with a better proecessor and more ram, has a nice size hard drive on it though.. steer clear of the netbooks though

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:53 pm

Claire wrote:Can anyone advise if this Samsung is any good?
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/national ... 232&a=1664


If you're tight on money. NEVER ever buy a netbook.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:04 pm

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/shop/technology/best_sellers/121735441_samsung_rv511_a09uk_intel_core_i3_3gb320gb_156_blue_notebook.html

Buy cheap but keep in your mind you will replace it in 18-24 months. Speed of the tech and the cost of the cheap laptops makes this the best method. Unless you want to be playing games or doing video editing this will answer your needs (if either of these are your aim then just go for a desktop)

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:47 pm

I have an asus netbook and it's fantastic, far better than my mrs dell laptop, dell desktop and the asus is a year older, everyone has a different opinion, although everyone agrees acer are bunk, every machine is better than another for different reasons, depends what you want it for

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:52 pm

I have a lenovo laptop. I recommend

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:41 pm

If you want to buy best performance and lower price laptop than you should go for Toshiba Laptop. Toshiba gives fast processors, webcam with face recognition, bigger storage, touch pad with multi-touch control, some even come with a hard drive impact sensor to help protect your data against dings and drops.

Re: need quick advise on buying laptop

Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:45 pm

Keep away from acer fekin crap, fujitsu are top class :ayatollah: