Notebooks A £300 laptop

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  1. Ploo

    Ploo What's a Dremel?

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    I'm looking for a sub £300 laptop for my dad. If it is something really worth the money, we can stretch it to £350 but there must be something to really justify the cost.

    Around 15"
    For web and email but possibly some more demanding things.
    Not interested in netbooks.

    Is there any specific ones that stand out the crowd for value?
     
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  2. DaveMon

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  3. memeroot

    memeroot aged and experianced

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    2nd hand xps?
     
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  4. Fingers66

    Fingers66 Kiwi in London

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    Try www.laptopshop.co.uk to see if there is anything that interests you. They do new and refurbished laptops.

    Sub £300 new is hard when you exclude netbooks.
     
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  5. jbloggs

    jbloggs What's a Dremel?

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  6. TheMusician

    TheMusician Audio/Tech Enthusiast/Historian

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    I can hardly find anything but netbooks at the ~£300 level.

    EEE PC 1201N maybe? Acer Ferrari of some sort? They have some power.
     
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  7. DaveMon

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  8. Abhorsen

    Abhorsen Minimodder

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    Avoid eMachines.
     
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  9. jbloggs

    jbloggs What's a Dremel?

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    Could you both please state why?

    Abhorsen, if you are going to "slate" a suggestion, it would be worthwhile suggesting an alternative...
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  10. Abhorsen

    Abhorsen Minimodder

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    Merely said avoid eMachines due to their particularly high failure rate. 2 years back i worked at PC World and they had significantly higher returns than other brands. eMachines is also a DSGi owned brand which they do use basement parts for. The other DSGi brand Advent is significantly better.

    As for the best 'value' brand imo it would be the lower priced Acers, they have good build quality. Obviously though Acer also do high end.

    As for slating, i merely stated what i would do. Avoid the brand eMachines.
     
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  11. gymman39

    gymman39 What's a Dremel?

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    feck i own an emachine..time for the razor blades.....
     
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  12. jbloggs

    jbloggs What's a Dremel?

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    I think you will find emachines have improved some in the last two years...

    A review and some comments can be found Here and Here
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