General Chat

My Vic wants to buy me a laptop, bless him, mainly so that l can be on PC whilst downstairs, also cause my pc is about 5 maybe 6 yrs old now and is driving me mad (will get it checked incase its me!!...lol)

Soooo.....what do l look for, how many rams, size of this that and the other???? Make etc
Would you advise getting a refurbished one??
The old one will be kept mainly for photos etc
and l will most probably get a fingy hard drive....portable, thats the word!!!

jude :o) x

nudge before l log off

jude :o)

n for you Jude

Sorry I can't help, haven't a clue, altho I would love a laptop too, but o.h. mentioned it when he thought we were going away in uk as I get bored stuck in an apartment with him asleep and no entertainment, but once we booked Corfu the idea disappered lol
Oh well, one day....


Lizxx

Get yourself a nice little 15 inch acer or H P laptop,with a 2 gig ddr [memory] on Vista [windows 7 still has too many bugs.
Something like a 160 gig hard drive will do well ,remembering that you will have an external hard drive as well,and don't forget you need wi fi as well..I am sat here in Lynham on my acer working via a dongle because the grandsons new home hasn't got broadband or telephone yet .
Bet here is as cold as wales is at the mo too ,minus 15 at the moment brrrrrrr.Fred.

Hello and thanks Fred:o))

It was 28.8 about an hour ago, blooming cold l know that....brrrr.

My b i l suggests l look at a Dell, l have seen some on an advert that keeps flashing up on my email. l will look at the Acer and HP.
He suggests l look for Windows 7.
He also suggests dual core hard drive (what ever that is) and no less than 300 fingies for a hard drive.
What do others think??

jude :o)

Hi Jude
I am on my second Dell laptop and our desktop is Dell too.

Mine is an Inspiron bought nearly a year ago and cost around £400 with everything including a wireless mouse. It's been good. It has Windows Vista.

They were quick to with delivery.

Linda :o) XxX House bound because of the snow !!!

Jude
I would go for the best you can afford. I have a Samsung Q 35.
I love it but apart from all it's technical advantages it was also chosen for it's weight so if I wanted to take it to records offices etc I could.
They vary so much in size as well as weight.
Hope you find what you want
Von

At the moment I am on a Toshiba laptop which I purchased 7 yrs ago for over £1000 it has been really good, but is a bit slow now. Bought a new Toshiba L350 with 17" screen before christmas for only £379 I am really pleased with it, but I picked up a virus, so waiting for it to be fixed, hopefully!
Carol

Thanks girls:o))

Had a chat with friend and he suggests the Acer, so looking into that. l know more now of what l want my pc to have so that helps.

All your little bits of info help so keep them coming:o))

Carol....hope you get the virus sorted!!

jude:o)

How you doing LindaB ? we tried to book a table at the place you stayed at back in the summer, do they have a restaurant??

Jude when you have an idea of what you want pay a visit to some of the places that sell them and try them out for size, keyboard and weight, they all vary tremendously and it is very personal what people like.