Subject: Recommend a laptop

actually there are some advantages, as apples are usually less heavy + their batteries last longer

My tosh was a 1.5Ghz celeron with 1GB RAM and 80GB HDD. It was ace for the first 18mths and then started not switching on, which is a bugger. So am a little worried, although I originally bought tosh as decent quality.

We are really really price constrained at the moment - £400 is as much as my wife will give me. therefore likely to get either a cheap toshiba, a dell or the samsung R60plus which is highly recommended.

I need 1GB memory minimum as Vista appears to chew through memory.

With vista i'd try and get 2 gig, it shouldn't be at all expensive compared to 1 to be fair.

Asus EEE

Tosh one??

My current laptop costed my €1400,- and got a cut of 20% from the university. Don't expect to get any high tech laptop for only 400 pounds.

that toshiba is a great deal.

However I went for this:

Samsung R60+

It's slightly slower - Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo, but has 2GB RAM, and best of all, a 3 year guarantee worth £99....
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Looks a solid deal, 2 gig of ram really will help you out for what you are going to do with it.

loading up the massive statistics of my sokker players*

*in my dreams!

Got my laptop, gone through Windows rebooting itself 14 times, connected to wifi, installed firefox, got on sokker.

jobsagoodun.

Hmm. Better go and download the add-on to watch my game. Oh and iTunes....

that'll kill it then!

heh

the 42 (!!) windows updates almost did that...

I would have recommended a Dell Inspiron because they are cheap to buy new and you can customize it.

But no one cares anymore. And besides, Poms probably don't listen to Aussies. =P

Still a pretty good price for what he is getting on that one.

Did you say something?

"Ashes 5 nil" I think. =P