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Recommend a laptop

  • 02-01-2011 12:18am
    #1
    The Lovely Muffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,595 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone recommend a laptop please? All I need is something very very basic until my other one is fixed (god knows when that will be if the company ever get a move on! :rolleyes:).

    Budget is €300 max.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    In the €300 range you would want to be looking at netbooks or second hand laptops.
    Not sure you can get a new laptop for that money.


  • #3
    The Lovely Muffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,595 ✭✭✭The Lovely Muffin


    ScrubsfanChris wrote: »
    In the €300 range you would want to be looking at netbooks or second hand laptops.
    Not sure you can get a new laptop for that money.
    What about €400?

    If I couldn't get a laptop for €400 or less then I'd look at netbooks, but for the €300 price range, as I don't think a netbook is worth €400 imo, maybe I'm wrong though.

    Thanks for your help.


  • #4
    Tech Guy Sligo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Tech Guy Sligo


    My recommandation would be to buy a secondhand Lenovo thinkpad T61 for around your price range.

    http://www.adverts.ie

    have lots of lenovos

    A lenovo thinkpad will last alot longer than any new Acer or emachine laptop you can buy new.

    D


  • #5
    The Lovely Muffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,595 ✭✭✭The Lovely Muffin


    Tech Guy Sligo wrote: »
    My recommandation would be to buy a secondhand Lenovo thinkpad T61 for around your price range.

    http://www.adverts.ie

    have lots of lenovos

    A lenovo thinkpad will last alot longer than any new Acer or emachine laptop you can buy new.

    D
    Thanks for your help.

    I had no idea about Lenovo thinkpads. I always thought Acer, HP and Packard Bell were the best, you learn something new every day.:)


  • #6
    Lord Khan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Lord Khan


    I recommend asus for eee pcs (euro 250-350).
    But for full size laptop I'd save your money until you have at least 600-700 tbh.
    I never buy a second hand laptop tbh. Desktops last longer than laptops.


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  • #7
    The Lovely Muffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,595 ✭✭✭The Lovely Muffin


    Thanks for the suggestions/help everyone.

    Am going to have a look at the computer shops in town tomorrow (Mullingar) so will see what I can find, if anything.


  • #8
    The Lovely Muffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,595 ✭✭✭The Lovely Muffin


    Which of these netbooks would be best?

    http://www.adverts.ie/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-r61i-laptop/325731

    http://www.adverts.ie/laptops/netbook-acer-aspire-one-for-220euro/389930

    I don't know anything about the specifics of either netbook. Tbh, I don't know anything about computers in general.:o


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