Laptop for a friend

[Recursion]

Hey,

Could someone help me out here :P, I need to find a cheapish laptop for my friend that he can use to take to school and use for school work, browsing the web etc, he would also like to play a few older games on it like GTA Vice City, GTA 3, Halo, Quake 3.

Help pls. XD

Tom

[The Professor]

Ebay. No contesto (H)

[Recursion]

I forgot to mention, no ebay please. :P

[NEEVE]

I forgot to mention, no ebay please. :P
wise move. i got my laptop from ebay for like £200 windows xp pro good memory and stuff but it had problem after problem. best buying a brand new one.

[AgnesIO]

What are we counting as 'cheapish'?

Is that like <500?

[x-glow]

Echmaine laptops are ok? or if your wanting a good cheap one a lenonvo n200 Ive got one its got finger print scanner built in wirless and bluetooh and its like £200 - £300

[Recursion]

What are we counting as 'cheapish'?

Is that like <500?

Probably around £350ish? It doesn't need to be uber great, the graphics don't need to be fantastic to run those old games either.


Echmaine laptops are ok? or if your wanting a good cheap one a lenonvo n200 Ive got one its got finger print scanner built in wirless and bluetooh and its like £200 - £300

Emachines would be fine. Ill take a look at that Lenovo.

Thanks


EDIT: How about the Latitude 17?

CLICK (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-17?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&%7Eoid=uk%7Een%7E20211%7Elaptop-inspiron-1750_n0075001%7E%7E)

[x-glow]

Your battery will be like 1 hour or less onit due to such a big screen it will like drain that battery and quick!

[AgnesIO]

Probably around £350ish? It doesn't need to be uber great, the graphics don't need to be fantastic to run those old games either.



Emachines would be fine. Ill take a look at that Lenovo.

Thanks


EDIT: How about the Latitude 17?

CLICK (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-17?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&%7Eoid=uk%7Een%7E20211%7Elaptop-inspiron-1750_n0075001%7E%7E)


Thats an Inspiron :P

[Recursion]

Sorry, usually im messing with Dell Latitudes, how about that Inspiron 17? :P

It wouldn't be under an hour, it'd be mroe like an hour and a half +

[hamheyelliot]

Your battery will be like 1 hour or less onit due to such a big screen it will like drain that battery and quick!
My mum has a Studio 17, they have WLED TFT screens so it hardly drains the power.
It has a 5 Cell battery so it goes for a good few hours.

[AgnesIO]

Sorry, usually im messing with Dell Latitudes, how about that Inspiron 17? :P

It wouldn't be under an hour, it'd be mroe like an hour and a half +

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/laptops_great_deals/fs.aspx?refid=laptops_great_deals&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&~ck=mn

Some of those are alrite, the tudio 15 is 475, pricey but will last your mate longer than a very very basic laptop would. Depends if he feels 125 pounds is worth spending now, comparedto the 300 pounds he will probably spend for a new one in two years :P

[x-glow]

Well I dunno All I know is IBM Are super cheap Lenovo ( What I got ) are Brilliant and emachines are good caue ive got 2 of them as well.

[Recursion]

That's an interesting proposition actually, those Studio 15s are fairly decent by the looks of it, ill have to have a chat with him :p

[syko2006]

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/600419

That will play all them games, and more.
And it's at a great price. :)

[Recursion]

I will not recommend a laptop with an AMD processor dammit! :P

[N!ck]

I will not recommend a laptop with an AMD processor dammit! :P

Nothing wrong with AMDs in a laptop as long as it's not a Sempron.

[AgnesIO]

Nothing wrong with AMDs in a laptop as long as it's not a Sempron.


Which the one syko2006 reccomended has haha :D

[Markeh]

Compaq do some decent machines. Just avoid Acer. They're the worst PCs ever, after owning 4 of them.

[AgnesIO]

Compaq do some decent machines. Just avoid Acer. They're the worst PCs ever, after owning 4 of them.


Woah Marky :D

4? You must have wanted them to work :D

[Markeh]

Woah Marky :D

4? You must have wanted them to work :D

To be fair, 1 was old (win 2k old), and another was 3 years old off eBay.