BUYING A LAPTOP! - £500-£700 budget

[SmavidDavid]

Okey, firstly its not for me .. its for my girlfriend.

Basically, shes on her 3rd laptop.. and she wants a new decent one.. so.. here's the info , if people could help would appreciate it! Overkills anything... a selection would be good. Many thanks!

Uses of laptop
Youtube
DVD's
Music
Office Use
SIM's & Tycoon games

Budget
£500-£800

Set-upLaptop will be plugged into an external HDD, and her TV from her desk for movies.
WIRELESS internet connection, unless on desk then hardwired ( i think)

Requests
She wants a large built in HDD cause she's lazy.. pfft haha!

 

[JealY]

Damn Dave, always thought you were homo.

Had a quick look, found this;

 

[Shabalabalong]

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/laptop-computers/

Step dad got a custom laptop from this site!

 

[Tai]

£500-800 isn't that a little bit overkill for "a girl"?

Why waste money on stuff she's never gonna get use out of when she can spend it on clothes? Unless she's a lebel wh0re like me then get a vaio ^^

 

[JealY]

£500-800 isn't that a little bit overkill for "a girl"?

Uses of laptop
Youtube
DVD's
Music
Office Use
SIM's & Tycoon games

The man has a point. A 300 quid laptop will do those.

 

[Budzilla]

This is perfect got one a couple of months ago for uni work. Not had a problem with it to be honest.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253078

---------- Post added at 06:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:05 PM ----------

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-VPCEB4...L3A4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310835536&sr=8-1

Cheaper at amazon lol

 

[Andreas]

Damn Dave, always thought you were homo.

haha this made my day

 

[SmavidDavid]

Screw you dom lol.

Its overkill.. ill re-work the requests, its her words not mine, i said to her i'd help as her family are not very geeky, and she's told her mum im helping.. so i gotta impress!

If she was to buy a networked HDD.. she could stream movies from it anywhere in house as long as shes got internet?

 

[Tai]

Screw you dom lol.

Its overkill.. ill re-work the requests, its her words not mine, i said to her i'd help as her family are not very geeky, and she's told her mum im helping.. so i gotta impress!

If she was to buy a networked HDD.. she could stream movies from it anywhere in house as long as shes got internet?

Why not just..spend less?

 

[SmavidDavid]

Well she wanted more.. but i was making her man up and stop being lazy.. but since a decent lappy wont cost too much.. how much would this setup cost.

Basically.. she wants it so she can watch movies from TV or PC as well as storing movies on external HDD. She disliked idea of transferring stuff.. so this was best setup i could think of? As well as the WDTV providing extra features

 

[Tai]

you actually made a diagram? haha thats both awesome and hillarious.

 

[SmavidDavid]

I'm that bored.. i used a £6k architectural program to do it!

OKEY... i think this badboy does the works
WD TV Live Hub

 

[Skyline]

Bit gay that Smavid.

Go Lenovo - You won't be dissapointed.

Had this email earlier: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/265605

 

[JealY]

Bit gay that Smavid.

My point exactly.

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/17408...-1TB-PAL-UK-Network-Media-Centre/Product.html

Seems legit.

 

[SmavidDavid]

Nothing wrong with experimenting....

 

[Budzilla]

You got a PS3? If so get PS3 Media Server. Best for streaming movies to TV.

 

[SmavidDavid]

Nah shes not got a PS3.

She showed me some she liked look off... £1500, £2200... £3000....................................

Told her its a slight overkill for the sims :L

 

[Omen_lom]

Nah shes not got a PS3.

She showed me some she liked look off... £1500, £2200... £3000....................................

Told her its a slight overkill for the sims :L

buy her a crappy one and be done with it!! :P Ebuyer is probs your best bet though, get a £300 one and tell her it cost £600... problem solved =D

 

[MentaL]

I got a new lappy few weeks ago. Dell had misprice so i got a second gen i5 (the new ones just released) with 8gb of ram in there and a dedicated 1gb gfx card plus it comes with a finger print scanner and stuff.. so, check dell for misprices, lol.