Small Laptop

Shmatter

I want a new laptop for college, with a screen size of about 12" to 14" and light weight but with good enough battery power so it's easy for transport. I have about 650e (but more if it's really worth it) to spend and would love to know if anyone has any suggestions!
I good processor would be great but a massive hard drive isn't as I already have decent enough external hard drives.

Jaafa

Perhaps an Inspiron m101z from dell? 580 yo yos. should suit your needs.

Shmatter

Thanks, had my eye on that one but not sure if I want a dell. Would be interested what other options are out there!!

Jaafa

ah dell aint that bad. What will you mainly be using the laptop for? Any gaming?

Shmatter

I need it for college, doing a business course and have a bit of a commute. Gaming wouldn't be my first concern, looking at HP laptops at the moment.

Jaafa

Hp have an even worse rep than dell. Read a few months ago they had a return rate of 15%...but dont quote me on that. How about a Samsung x125?

Shmatter

Oh, that looks quite tempting, but I don't know much about processors, what intel is the processor equivalent to? It's an AMD Athlon™ II Neo Processor??

Jaafa

Put it this way....that processor is better than Intel's atom processor which is in most other laptops of that size. You probably wont find a better processor in a laptop that size and at that price. That also (unless Im mistaken) is one of AMD's new line of processors.

pedigree

Hi
Is there anything new in the 11 to 13 inch with a dvd rw drive.
Pedigree

Shmatter

Looking at a HP now it's 14" with a DVD player, and intel core i5!

Gargled

Shmatter wrote: »

Looking at a HP now it's 14" with a DVD player, and intel core i5!

Which one? Looking for something similar. Really want an i5 too!

Shmatter

Gargled wrote: »

Which one? Looking for something similar. Really want an i5 too!

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/series/category/notebooks/dm4t_series/3/computer_store

There's a dm4 in click, few different modifications I think but it's essentially the same. Pretty sure I'd get it

Jaafa

Do they ship to ireland? Because if not....good luck finding it at that price here.

Gargled

Just ordered a dell. I know a dell?

€770 for i5 with 4GB and a 500GB hard drive. 1G of ATI graphics card too. Better than anything I could find in Click or PC world

Shmatter

Jaafa wrote: »

Do they ship to ireland? Because if not....good luck finding it at that price here.

it's an irish shop, a bit over 800e but they give student discounts so that'll bring it down a fair bit, and it's a shop here

Jaafa

Well good luck with that then. Not a bad find.

Hasmunch

What do ye make of this laptop link

my sister got it this week and wonder how good it is.. thanks

Operating System: Windows 7 Home
Processor 1.3 GHz Intel® Celeron™ Dual Core Processor
Display Size 13.3

Data Memory 3GB RAM (DDR3 1066 MHz)

Hard Drive 320GB (5400RPM)

Features DVD drive No
Blu-ray drive No
Wi-Fi Yes
Bluetooth No
Card reader Yes
USB ports 3
Webcam Yes
Battery Life 9 hours
Weight 1.7 kg

Jaafa

Pretty good for everyday use....processor could be a bit better but an ok laptop in general.

Hasmunch

Jaafa wrote: »

Pretty good for everyday use....processor could be a bit better but an ok laptop in general.

Wasnt sure about the processor.

She will only be using it for web browsing and a little work so it should suit her needs.

Thanks jaafa

Jaafa

No problem.

Yeah for web browsing and microsoft word and such it should do fine.

pedigree

Hi
Has anyone found laptop running i5 sub €500.
Pedigree

Jaafa

Not possible in Ireland I'm afraid.

Unless it seriously cuts down on other components or has a sub standard build quality.