I am hoping to persuade the boss that its time my work laptop was replaced. Went hunting for something to ask for and the only sandbridge laptops I could find were i7's at over £1000. I reckon £550 is about as far I could push it but I cant find anything! Ideally 8GB of ram or upgradable to 8GB to cope with vm's Is there anything out there?
Nice ones here http://bit.ly/mGaKOt but still out of your £500 budget (Which is really low BTW) Could try google http://bit.ly/ikloHU
@Guinevere, -6 rep points for shortening URL, when not needed. And for making me forcing to view those links, especially that last one, is the most useless thing you could have done. @sparkyboy22 The closest you can find is the Dell Inspiron R series. If you want a more business class feel, and warranty service, including next business day on site service being available, the Dell Vostros series is in interesting choice. Of course, you can negotiate prices and free upgrade (and free shipping, but that is usually given just by calling), when calling at Dell. Even if it's for 1 system, you can do this. The Dell laptop are nice solid systems. Of course, the low end model mentioned, you can't throw them around, and apply 0 care like the higher end system or the high-end Lenovo systems. But they should not break on you from normal caring usage (remember you get what you paid for... so don't expect a tank...but I am not saying to expect crap... it's far from it).
+1 for the dell vostro systems, i got a steal on one for my mother, 4gb of ram, not sure how far you can upgrade that, i5 dual core processor with hyper threading, 320Gb hard, I think it was a vostro 3550, and I completely agree with what goodbytes has said, they are very solid systems, much better than the cheap blahh that you can get from pc world etc, we got a steal on one as I said, but looks to me like dell are doing an even better deal at the moment, theres one on there thats £440, with £140 worth of discount, it goes up to £526 once VAT has been added, but its got even better specs than my mothers one, including a dedicated graphics card in the form of a amd 6630m, obviously you won't be playing games on it, but I'm sure its handy to have
