Looking for recommendations for a sub €500 laptop

Serbian

I am looking into buying a laptop for my parents and have a budget of €500. It's going to be used for browsing and email primarily. My only solid requirement is that the screen needs to be around 15" (they have a netbook and they hate it, and the last laptop has a 17" screen which made it a bit unwieldly to transport around).

I've done a bit of research and I've narrowed down to what I think are decent enough laptops for their price. If anyone thinks any of the laptops below are better than the rest, or have an alternative laptop within the €500 budget, I'm all ears.

Samsung Series 3 (i3 2330M, 4GB RAM)
Acer Aspire 5749 (i3 2350M, 4GB RAM)
Lenovo G580 (i3 2370M, 4GB RAM)
Dell Inspiron 15 (i3 2350M, 3GB RAM)
Asus K53Z (A4 3305M, 4GB RAM)
Wildcard: Acer Aspire 5750 Refurb (i5 2430M, 4GB RAM, 3 month warranty)

Torqay

Scratch the ASUS (AMD A-4) and the Dell (3 GB RAM) and the Samsung (too expensive).

Leaves you with the Lenovo, the Acer 5749 (which you can get here for €417) and the refurb Acer Core i5 (limited warranty and the battery probably isn't new, if that's an issue).

tony007

Does anyone have any other examples of good laptops below the 500 mark?

kunst nugget

Tesco are doing two laptops for €299 at the moment. Both 4GB RAM with 320GB Hard drive. Both are 15" screens. One is a Toshiba and the other I think is an Asus but I'm probably wrong on that one. I'm tempted to pick one up myself at that price.

pc world actually have a decent range of 15.6 inch laptops under €500 with the advantage that you try them out in the shop.

Neodymium

I just came across this - HP G6, 750GB, 6 GB ram, 2.5GHz i5 2450m Laptop - at argos for €515

Jarren

Currys UK have special offer on Sammy

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-series-3-3530ea-15-6-laptop-silver-17291830-pdt.html?srcid=369&xtor=AL-11&cmpid=aff~HotUKDeals~