Time to buy a new laptop - which is best for around £1K

[doodab]

Now whittled it down to three; Dell Latitude E5420 / Lenovo Thinkpad X1 / Thinkpad x220.

Anyone purchased/using one of these recently? Thoughts/recommendations?

qh

I had an X210 on a client site recently and it was a well built machine. The thing that would put me off purchasing any of the really small machines is the screen resolution though. The T420s is only a bit larger but has a 1600x900 screen which is much more like it IMO. I suppose it depends what you are doing.

[Lockhouse]

I bought a 17" Dell laptop from the outlet around three years ago. I bought it as a substitute desktop when I was so working at home a lot so not the lightest but I've not had any issues with it all and I paid around half list price.

[quackhandle]

Cheers for the comments/advice.

qh

[quackhandle]

Anyone with a Thinkpad T420s?

Thoughts good or bad?

qh

[Vandalay]

Recently had dilemma as using my own laptop on client site for Excel development, but it's a mac. Installed bootcamp & windows 7. Works a dream and very glad I didn't buy a PC

[VectraMan]

I gave into temptation and bought an XPS15 (L502x) from Dell Outlet. That's £500 for an i7 Sandy Bridge, with 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD and with both the Intel graphics for battery saving and and NVidia something or other for games (not that I'm likely to play games on it). I'll probably spend another £130 on an SSD and turn the existing drive into an external USB one for if I need the storage. So that's a pretty high spec machine for ~£600.

I was tempted by the thin and light (though "light" is a bit of a lie) XPS15z Mac Book clone for a couple of hundred more, but in the end decided I'm not really interested in pose value and want something that can be a desktop replacement. Plus the keyboards look crap on those (i.e. copied from the MacBook).

The equivalent MacBook is over £2K, and you don't even get a copy of Windows.

Only thing that's annoying me is that it hasn't turned up yet. I ordered over a week ago, and initially they said yesterday but are now saying next Monday. They don't need to build these outlet machines especially, so I was expecting it in a couple of days.

[Spacecadet]

Recently had dilemma as using my own laptop on client site for Excel development, but it's a mac. Installed bootcamp & windows 7. Works a dream and very glad I didn't buy a PC

Just imagine the nightmare work would be if you didn't have to jump through all those hoops just to do your job

[Friday Blue]

I gave into temptation and bought an XPS15 (L502x) from Dell Outlet. That's £500 for an i7 Sandy Bridge, with 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD and with both the Intel graphics for battery saving and and NVidia something or other for games (not that I'm likely to play games on it). I'll probably spend another £130 on an SSD and turn the existing drive into an external USB one for if I need the storage. So that's a pretty high spec machine for ~£600.

I was tempted by the thin and light (though "light" is a bit of a lie) XPS15z Mac Book clone for a couple of hundred more, but in the end decided I'm not really interested in pose value and want something that can be a desktop replacement. Plus the keyboards look crap on those (i.e. copied from the MacBook).

The equivalent MacBook is over £2K, and you don't even get a copy of Windows.

Only thing that's annoying me is that it hasn't turned up yet. I ordered over a week ago, and initially they said yesterday but are now saying next Monday. They don't need to build these outlet machines especially, so I was expecting it in a couple of days.

i bought an asus X53e similar spec from comet for 499 few weeks back. havent got round to change the HDD to SDD and it is VERY slow in terms of loading speed. hopefully when i have time i will swap the HDD out. but running programs has been a major improvement over..well...my 3 years old celeron.

[quackhandle]

Plus the keyboards look crap on those (i.e. copied from the MacBook).

Chiclet keyboards I believe they are called, I'm not that keen it's like going back to the rubber buttons of the ZX Spectrum. Saying that, I'm daft enough to pay 80 notes for my very noisey Das III mechanical keyboard, I love it.

qh

[Scrag Meister]

I gave into temptation and bought an XPS15 (L502x) from Dell Outlet. That's £500 for an i7 Sandy Bridge, with 6GB RAM, 750GB HDD and with both the Intel graphics for battery saving and and NVidia something or other for games (not that I'm likely to play games on it). I'll probably spend another £130 on an SSD and turn the existing drive into an external USB one for if I need the storage. So that's a pretty high spec machine for ~£600.

I have 2 XPS laptops, a mobile 13" and a larger 17", bought back in 2007, still running fine.

Chiclet keyboards I believe they are called, I'm not that keen it's like going back to the rubber buttons of the ZX Spectrum. Saying that, I'm daft enough to pay 80 notes for my very noisey Das III mechanical keyboard, I love it.

qh

I have a Razor mechanical keyboard, love it except for the spacing/design of the Caps Lock key. Keep pressing it when going for an "A".

I used to have an old IBM mechanical until a couple of years back.