Shoutbox

Hey,

It's January sales time

My sister, who's 13 years old, is buying a laptop. She has £400. I'm trying to find her the best I can find for that price.

The main uses are: internet, Office, WLM, webcam, music, etc.

Opinions on the best one out of the list? .. or if you can find a better one, be my guest.

- The hard drive size doesn't matter much, as she's currently sharing a 75 GB with ease.
- Some say Intel > AMD, I'm unsure.

Acer Aspire 5920 G1 - Cdiscount UK £399.99 (£50 cashback to spend on their website)
Screen size:
15.4 inches
Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5750
Memory (RAM):
4 GB
Storage (hard drive):
250 GB
Dedicated graphics:
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT 256 MB

Acer Aspire 5735 - Comet £388.00
Screen size:
15.6 inches
Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 (2 GHz)
Memory (RAM):
4 GB
Storage (hard drive):
160 GB
Shared graphics:
Intel GMA X3100 252 MB

HP 6735s - ebuyer £399.99
Screen size:
15.4 inches
Processor:
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core RM-72 (2.1 GHz)
Memory (RAM):
4 GB
Storage (hard drive):
250 GB
Onboard graphics:
Intergrated Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 512MB

Samsung R505 - Argos £399.99
Screen size:
15.4 inches
Processor:
AMD Turion RM-72 (2.1 GHz)
Memory (RAM):
3GB
Storage (hard drive):
250 GB
Dedicated graphics:
ATI HD 3470 256 MB

FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO PA 3553 - Comet £399.00
Screen size:
15 inches
Processor:
AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual Core (2.1 GHz)
Memory (RAM):
3 GB
Storage (hard drive):
320 GB
Dedicated graphics:
ATI Mob RadHD 3470 256 MB

Thanks

I would recommend staying away from the 'shared' and 'onboard' graphics if possible, unless video performance not something shes going to need. For the Aspire 5735, I have never heard of a memory size of 252MB. Might want to stay away from that one.

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Originally posted by MeEtc
I would recommend staying away from the 'shared' and 'onboard' graphics if possible, unless video performance not something shes going to need. For the Aspire 5735, I have never heard of a memory size of 252MB. Might want to stay away from that one.

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Ok, thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

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Originally posted by NanoChromatic
But....Its december still....

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When are January sales? - The Student Room

All in all I'd say the aver g1. Keeping it short because I'm on my iPod

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Originally posted by Nathan
All in all I'd say the aver g1. Keeping it short because I'm on my iPod

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You mean acer XD
And yes, it looks the best.

Acer always looks the best in terms of value, but I must say their build quality is really bad.

My friend bought his acer less than a year ago, already the screen has a "black spot", the laptop lid creaks and cracks when moved and at certain angles the screen goes completely white. Also in other places around the keyboad, if you push down on the casing of the laptop, it also creaks.

My $0.02

Hmm, my girlfriend has an Acer and she's happy with it. Maybe just got unlucky?

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Originally posted by Chris4

Acer Aspire 5920 G1 - Cdiscount UK £399.99 (£50 cashback to spend on their website)

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gogogogogogogogogogo, it's basically the best one in your list

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Originally posted by Chris4
Hmm, my girlfriend has an Acer and she's happy with it. Maybe just got unlucky?

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Im not sure, Ive heard other stories about Acers build quality being bad (some were on this forum, maybe you could still find them), but i guess if she takes very good care of it, those things might not happen.

Personally, I'd stay away from Acer... I've had nothing but trouble with them when I've been sorting them out for people, saying that though... Most peoples' computers etc are pretty messed up anyway.

I'd either go HP or Fujitsu though, however Sony are definitely the best notebooks out there by far.

I managed to grab a decent Sony Vaio from Comet for £399 (they chucked in a 500gb External HDD too to 20 quid).

Then they gave me the wrong laptop, they get me one worth £550