New 15.6" laptop

TheBazman

Hi all - yes another one of these threads!

I'm looking to replace my laptop as it's on it's last legs

Budget €500 - 750
Screen 15.6" (ish)
> 500gb Hard Drive
Would like back lit keyboard but not essential
DVD rewriter
Blu-ray - not necessary
Decent battery life
i5 at least (gen II I guess if it makes much of a difference)

Most use will be browsing, some Word/Excel use, some light photo and video editing but not Photoshop, file converting etc. I will be moving a fair amount of files around between hard drives etc which can take an age on my current one. Not a huge amount else really. Wont be doing any gaming.

I also prefer the track pad that has a bit of feel or a little bit rough. I saw a few in Harvey Normans and preferred the trackpad on the Lenovos, Toshiba, I think the Acer/Asus were smooth iirc, and not sure about the Samsung. Was going to hold out until Windows 8 later in the year but the current one is wrecking my head! Will be buying online.

Thinking of something like
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo_Z570_1189697.html
or
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Samsung_RF511_1158192.html
or maybe
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_5750G_1165953.html

Any thoughts appreciated

Cheers

Jarren

This Lenovo looks decent

http://www.computeruniverse.net/products/90428354/lenovo-ideapad-z570-m556bge-w7hp64.asp

As long as you don't mind German keyboard layout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Switzerland_.28German.2C_French.2C_Italian.2C_Romansh.29.2C_Liechtenstein.2C_Luxembourg

Dr Turk Turkelton

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-TimelineX-AS5820T-5951-15-6-Inch-Aluminum/dp/B003IPC22S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335904912&sr=8-1

I got one of these just after xmas and it is amazing spec for the price.it seems to have all your boxes checked even price.Only thing is to avoid paying duty you will need to know someone coming home from the States to bring it for you.


*edit just looked at that ad and it seems to be a different model.the one i got is i5 and has usb3.0.
the model is timelineX5830TG-6614.
also it was cheaper around $730.


http://www.amazon.com/Acer-TimelineX-AS5830TG-6614-15-6-Inch-Aluminum/dp/B005J2JFIW/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1335906117&sr=1-1

this is the one

TheBazman

Cheers guys - I'll have a look at those suggestions