Laptop Recommendations

[daviejones]

With Dell, you get what you pay for....

[TheFaQQer]

There's a sticky in the technical forum on moneysavingexpert about good value laptops.

[Moose423956]

There's a sticky in the technical forum on moneysavingexpert about good value laptops.

Faqqer, thanks for that, very helpful. ebuyer looks like a good bet. Something like this.

[fridge]

Get her a nice little HP Compaq nc 4200 that wont take up to much space. she may even get it into her handbag.

[portseven]

What about the new Asus EEE PC?

A small laptop, 512MB RAM, 900Mhz Celeron, 7" Screen, 4Gb Flash HDD, Wifi, Ethernet, USB Ports

All for approx £220, various places are selling them see

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1067

Very tempted to buy one myself, would make a good contractors laptop for use on client sites.

[threaded]

MacBook Pro...will never go wrong...

Seconded on that. Nice machines.

[Spacecadet]

I've had multiple Dell laptops from multiple consulting jobs. They all are usually a good bog standard laptop. For my personal one I bought XPS M1710 about a year ago. Never been happier with the build quality. They've gone a long way Dell.

I bought a Dell Precision M65 in July... not had a problem with it. Bought software (Visual Studio, SQL Server Dev edition) from Dell at the same time as it worked out cheaper than buying seperately.
Got the 3 year worldwide onsite support thrown in for free!

Almost went for the XPS M1710 but I didn't like the thought of the big red XPS logo on the lid lighting up the clients office.


I've used Dells a lot over the years, servers, PC's, laptops, PDA, RAID and been happy with them and the support they've given when things have gone wrong (99% the time its the hard drive thats the problem)

[monkeyBoy32]

I would generally always go with Dell - buy through their business site as well - I specked exactly the same laptop through their home site and their business site - the business laptop was £200 cheaper.

My approach is that I buy a new, medium spec machine every couple of years - they're so cheap now. I don't see the point in spending nearly 1k on a laptop that will be a low-spec machine in 3 years time. By buying a new machine from dell every couple of years, I always have an ok machine...

[Spacecadet]

One thing that suprised me about Dell was how open they are to haggling.

[portseven]

One thing that suprised me about Dell was how open they are to haggling.

Did an E-Auction with them for a previous client who were looking to standardize on their laptop's. Dell wiped the floor with the other vendors, no-one could touch them on price.