Laptop recommendation before Friday morning

[robbie]

Need a new laptop. Around £350. Lots of RAM I guess, as a few resource heavy things going on at the same time. Work not play. Windows. Need to go and get it tomorrow morning.

Any recommendations?

Ta

[dougans]

my mate just bought the dell laptop thats on that annoying dell advert on tv. it's about 350 quid, an extra 40 quid and you can double the ram or something he said. ships in 2 days, as well.

http://www.dell.co.uk i imagine

[dougans]

forget all that, i just remembered today is thursday and not friday... i thought you wanted one by next friday

[keri]

You can get dell laptops in tescos (what can't you but in tesco?!?) failing that, if you went to currys/pcworld i doubt sony would be in the budget so i would look at Toshiba next

[vee]

Just been researching and think you might struggle at £350 for a decent machine. I just bought a Dell studio 15 with upgraded battery, ram and a decent graphics card for £550 - very capable it seems. At the £350 mark I couldn't get anything with a half decent processor and graphics card but suppose it depends what you want to do with it.

cheers
vee

[net-curtains]

Cheaper if you buy the Dell direct. I bought a nice HP from Tesco though.

[robbie]

it depends what you want to do with it.

From now until September 2009 - acoustically analyse lots of speech sounds, create loads of spreadsheets, do some statistics, write a phd. After September 2009 - mess about.

If I'm honest, not that demanding for the machine, so I think I'll manage with a cheaper one.

Thanks for tips. A trip to Tesco tomorrow morning.

[Mr Anderson]

it depends what you want to do with it.

From now until September 2009 -

You'll need a really powerful one to do time travel

[Haze]

it depends what you want to do with it.

From now until September 2009 -

You'll need a really powerful one to do time travel

I must admit that I was really confused reading that.... and I'm confused at the best of times so you can imagine how many times I read, reread, reread the reread,.... I was a bit discombobulated (guess who watched "I'm a Celebrity...").

[robbie]

Bollocks. I've lost a year.

[Tony]

Bollocks. I've lost a year.

I'ts back thataways...