Laptop Recommendations

[dahamsta]

A few people I know are raving about them. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, but then I'm a power user that believes in Big Monitors.

adam

[GavinZac]

Been mentioned to be that Ubuntu would be better to use on it.

No it wasn't Ubuntu would be better, but for this PC, i'd imagine the pre-installed distro would be the best option; otherwise they wouldn't have picked it I just find Ubuntu's downloading/ubuntu system (the same as debians) to be the easiest; In fact it now frustrates me a lot when i have to go manually download things in Windows rather than just typing what i want into a search bar and having the latest version pop up immediately.

[sligoman]

Someone I know is looking for a laptop, it'd mostly be used for playing games and maybe typing stuff the odd time. Very rarely used for internet. Any suggestions? Budget around 4/500.

[Battery Rover]

Someone I know is looking for a laptop, it'd mostly be used for playing games and maybe typing stuff the odd time. Very rarely used for internet. Any suggestions? Budget around 4/500.

Plenty round for that price if it is for typing and internet etc but if they are planning on playing games then their budget would have to be 2k plus especially if it is any of the latest games as most of them would reqquire dedicated graphics memory, couple of GB ram

[drinkfeckarse]

Lads I'd appreciate your opinion if you don't mind. Thinking of getting a laptop soon. Just general usage, e-mails, browsing, downloading music etc. I'm not computer illiterate but most of the lingo would go over my head.

I'm happy for any suggestions but I was on the Dell website and saw an Inspiron 1525 with this spec for £399. I just want to know whether that's good value or not or whether you can get better. It seems a decent offer to me anyway...

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5750 (2.00 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife™
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
250GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
8x DVD+/-RW Optical drive, including SW
1Yr Limited Warranty - Collect & Return

[Pauro 76]

Lads I'd appreciate your opinion if you don't mind. Thinking of getting a laptop soon. Just general usage, e-mails, browsing, downloading music etc. I'm not computer illiterate but most of the lingo would go over my head.

I'm happy for any suggestions but I was on the Dell website and saw an Inspiron 1525 with this spec for £399. I just want to know whether that's good value or not or whether you can get better. It seems a decent offer to me anyway...

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5750 (2.00 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife™
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
250GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
8x DVD+/-RW Optical drive, including SW
1Yr Limited Warranty - Collect & Return

I cant see too much wrong with that one myself. You said you download music, those specs will serve fine I think.

[drinkfeckarse]

Thanks Pauro.

[A face]

I dont know if this was mentioned but Laptops Direct can be good

[drinkfeckarse]

Thanks also A Face.