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aido

Hi Norah.
I bought a HP laptop last year not knowing anything about laptops.
seems to be ok it has wifi built in, the battery seems to last very long time between charging, I got it in Power City €900...... aido Smile

seagull

philips X54 from PC world... 2meg memory and dedicated graphics memory.. fast and light... £800.. had mine two months and cannot recommend highly enough.

DubPaul

Hi Nora,

I can say that the IBM Thinkpads are extremely well built and engineered but they come at a price.

I recently bought a laptop for home use on a budget and went to PC World and a few places. I was not keen on buying unknown brand names.

I ended up with a Compaq for €750. It has widescreen, 80GB and 1024RAM. I think it was about €20 more expensive that the Dell would have been online. Because you are travelling with it I would budget for extra service and support... it's likely to get moved about and banged about a bit more.

Competition is high so you are going to get the same deal from most manufacturers. I personally think that if you spend 700-850 you will get something decent that will last a good number of years.

The one think I did notice was that Packard Bell seemed to be overpriced.

Don-Tucker

Sony Vaio every time,this is my third ,never a problem with any of them,just upgraded.
Don

hymerbug

hi, just being into curry's digital selling these ,don't know much about laptops but looks value to me hope its of some help to somebody in the know and can let me know.

packard bell laptop.
intel celeron m410 processor- 1.46 GHz FSB, 1MB cashe.
1024 DDR RAM.
DVD ReWriter drive.
60GB hard drive.
wireless enabled.
15.4" wide screen.

price £399.00
colin

wobby

I too have a Mac iBook G4 its been great and I intend to upgrade to a power book with intel processor. If you go for a Mac don't buy on line as if you ring their sales number and haggle a bit, you'll get a bit off and they will throw in parallel for free, my brother did. The Mac system is so easy to use and you get itunes, Imovie, Idvd, and best of all iphoto. Check out what the pro photographers use and you'll find its mostly Macs.
The other thing I like about Mac is the Lack of viruses, worms ect that can attack a Mac system. Also if you use Safari web surf & Mac mail, they filter out the possible problem so I don't need a anti virus program, A Mac employee told me that.