Lenovo G560 - good deal or not?

tizred

I'm looking for a laptop circa 500euro as a part of a Christmas present. The laptop will be used for general family and home use like watching videos, photo editing, email, browsing, skype, possibly some home work and also a small amount of gaming ! I'd like to have the laptop for a good few years - so I'm looking for something sturdy and that isn't going to be out of date within a year or so.
I saw this laptop on dabs for 480 eur...
Lenovo G560
Is this deal too good to be true - a Core i3 laptop for less than 500 eur? Do you think that the reason for the lower than I would have expected price is because it's only got 2gb RAM and a 250gb harddrive?

Please let me know if this is a good deal or not - I'd hate to end up with 2 turkeys on Christmas day!

dazzday

You have plenty of options in around the 500euro range with i3 cpus.
Dont worry abouut HHD size and RAM as they are easily upgradable for retlatively cheap prices.

A very quick look brings up these. Undoubtably more on dabs, leara. ebuyer, expansys, simplyasus, etc

http://www.dabs.ie/products/acer-aspire-5741-core-i3-330m-3gb-320gb-dvd-sm-15-6---silver-windows-7-home-premium-64-bit-laptop-760T.html?refs=15

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_C650-196_Laptop_PSC13E-00H008EN/version.asp

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Fujitsu_LIFEBOOK_AH530_Core_i3_Laptop_VFY_AH530MRBA2GB/version.asp

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5742_Windows_7_Laptop__LX.R4F02.081/version.asp

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5740_Core_i3_Laptop_LX.PM902.089/version.asp

One i reccomended before due to its 7200rpm HDD and 310M dedicated gpu which would be ideal for you in terms of light gaming:

http://www.dabs.ie/products/lenovo-ideapad-z560-0914-core-i3-350m-2-26-ghz-2gb-320gb-15-6--windows-7-home-premium-laptop-76WL.html

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/227402

tizred

Thanks dazzday - the Lenovo IdeaPad Z560 looks very good.