Laptop €400-€500

GAMAN

Hi Guys,

Hope some one can help what to buy my father a laptop for Christmas, looking for as good as I can get for that budget, it would be used mostly internet, download the odd movie, Skype, he won't need it for gaming

infocal

GAMAN wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Hope some one can help what to buy my father a laptop for Christmas, looking for as good as I can get for that budget, it would be used mostly internet, download the odd movie, Skype, he won't need it for gaming

http://www.dell.com/ie/p/popular-laptop-deals?~ck=mn

4xx dell more than enough..

The_Conductor

One thing- the Dell's all have Windows 8.
I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time helping people who are used to Windows 7 come to terms with Windows 8.
Please factor in the cost of a Windows 7 downgrade into the equation (even if you have to pay for it seperately. Note- the 17R for Euro648- looks to me to be the Dell deal to get at the moment- and an older person might appreciate the larger screen. Then again- a younger person might too. My own laptop (that I'm currently using) has an 18.4" screen....... The 8Gb of RAM and the 1Tb hard-drive, with the upgraded processor- make it a bit of a no brainer, considering there is damn all difference in price compared to the lower specced models.

IRCA

I recently bought a laptop from Powercity.ie - have a few sub €400 machines generally €50 cheaper than HN or PCWorlrd.

infocal

check if the laptop has a powerful CPU.

http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php


lot's on the market with low end CPU... they are slow like donkey..

beauf

The_Conductor wrote: »

One thing- the Dell's all have Windows 8.
I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time helping people who are used to Windows 7 come to terms with Windows 8.
Please factor in the cost of a Windows 7 downgrade into the equation (even if you have to pay for it seperately. Note- the 17R for Euro648- looks to me to be the Dell deal to get at the moment- and an older person might appreciate the larger screen. Then again- a younger person might too. My own laptop (that I'm currently using) has an 18.4" screen....... The 8Gb of RAM and the 1Tb hard-drive, with the upgraded processor- make it a bit of a no brainer, considering there is damn all difference in price compared to the lower specced models.

Is the gfx ok for some gaming? Its low end I know.

hillbloom

IRCA Did you read the29 comments in Consumer Issuea about PowerCity.

infocal

infocal wrote: »

check if the laptop has a powerful CPU.

http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php


lot's on the market with low end CPU... they are slow like donkey..

low end CPU normally has marks below 2k.


2500 marks is so so for today's system

3xxx+ is normal

4xxx+ -> 6xxx is not bad

6xxx is good

The_Conductor

beauf wrote: »

Is the gfx ok for some gaming? Its low end I know.

Its the next gen intel graphics chip- damn sight better than the crap they used have- but if you're planning on gaming, you're still in for a massive disappointment with it......... Sorry.........