Humey Whilem Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 I need to get a new laptop but don't really have more than 300 tops to spend on it...Any suggestions? All I need it for is the web, some downloading (but files can be stored externally), occassional photoshop and a simple recording program (N-Track for example).Also, I'll need windows but I'm guessing I should avoid Vista if possible, am I right? Most things I see have Vista installed. Am I stuck with it?Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 I'd also like to know of a laptop under 300 bin lids which would be able to run Photoshop or a windows GarageBand equivelant without setting on fire.Mac's look nice but are too expensive and they are white. I can't own white things because I'd probably spill some bastard food on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Stay away from Celeron processors. Get as much memory as you can afford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1903 Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Worth checking out Tescos for any deals they have on Acer machines, some of them are pretty good value.Also have a look at misco.co.uk, I'm sure they'll have a few XP options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F138 Safari/525.20)Yeah tesco have a 2Gb Acer for 349 with decent sized harddrive as well.Only just out of your range and might be worth it. Couple of my friends bought them and they've said they are rather good.On the subject of vista I've had of since Xmas and it's been fine, never had an issue with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humey Whilem Posted October 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 Thanks, got it sorted now. I actually bought a Packard Bell @ Currys, managed to get a bit (tiny bit) of a deal on it for 300.Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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