Laptop help ?

[lynx5.0]

Am thinking of buying a laptop as am fed up being stuck in the spare room day and night. But am clueless, just had a look at currys and commet and did't know where to start i would have asked for help but figuer the guy just wants a sale and dose not care about my needs.So i turn to the only place i know i will get honest and unbaised veiw so i put to you the blonde faithfull what one do i buy

specs

price range,     £400-£600 (not made of money)
used for,         online poker day ond night (need to pay for it some how)
internet conn, wireless
place of use , sofa

any further info needed just ask

[Wardonkey]

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=8944.0

[dik9]

£549, Acer 1642 from comet, does the job for me anyway I took ifm's advice and would like to thank him for recommending it.

[thetank]

Be careful with coffee.

[Rod Paradise]

Do you multi table?

[TheWhisper]

I recently had to junk a Packard Bell laptop, it lasted about 18 months and the battery life was awful. We use Dell at work and they are a much better class of machine. Have a look in their factory outlet section of their website, and keep checking back as they continually add new machines there. My Dell laptop had a battery life of about 4 hours. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/notebooks?c=uk&cs=&l=en&s=dfb&~ck=mn

[LukieD]

Posted this in another topic about dell:

Had a Dell laptop and all I can say is that I will NEVER buy from Dell again.

Had issue after issue..overheating, cd drive malfunctioning for no apparant reason etc etc. They try to fix it all via emails and get the me to take apart the laptop. Eventually they sent an engineer only for the problems to arise again about a month later. Then they delayed replying to emails until my warranty had expired and informed me that I was no longer covered.

Ended up managing to sell it despite its problems on ebay and bought a Sony Vaio and can't recommend it highly enough. If you do decide to go with Dell research the model you are choosing because a number have problems. They tried to claim there wasn't a known problem with the laptop I bought despite thousands of people online complaining and even a computer magazine picking up on a design fault which caused the overheating. Rather than offer an alternative they simply replaced parts so that the laptop would just about continue working until the warranty expired.

[LukieD]

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C11&from=R10&sbrbin=t&satitle=laptop+-dell&sacat=177%26catref%3DC6&bs=Search&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=&a14=-24&a26444=-24&a25710=-24&a12=-24&a10244=-24&a26446=-24&gcs=1505&pfid=1830&reqtype=1&pfmode=1&alist=a14%2Ca26444%2Ca25710%2Ca12%2Ca10244%2Ca26446%2Ca3801&pf_query=laptop+-dell&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=B29+7AQ&sascs=2&ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&price=1&saprclo=400&saprchi=600

Laptops available to buy now between £400-600 (Dells ignored)

[TheWhisper]

I note what you say about the Dells. I am sure it was frustrating for you.
I have always found their support to be first class.
If you are buying a laptop on eBay be very careful, this is one of the sections where you will find yourself getting ripped off more than any other. There are a lot of scammers in this section.

[Rod Paradise]

I note what you say about the Dells. I am sure it was frustrating for you.
I have always found their support to be first class.
If you are buying a laptop on eBay be very careful, this is one of the sections where you will find yourself getting ripped off more than any other. There are a lot of scammers in this section.

I got my latest Laptop off Ebay - and it's a cracker - but yes there's a lot of scammers.

[LukieD]

I note what you say about the Dells. I am sure it was frustrating for you.
I have always found their support to be first class.
If you are buying a laptop on eBay be very careful, this is one of the sections where you will find yourself getting ripped off more than any other. There are a lot of scammers in this section.

Yup without a doubt there are scammers selling laptops but if you check out feedback carefully (ie. not just checking the positive % but also that he has sold similar expensive items before) you should be ok, plus if you pay by paypal you are covered for a certain amount. I was scammed over buying a phone and received 90% of the money back through the fraud prevention scheme.

Re: Dell I know some people have had no problems with them and are completely happy with their service but there are also A LOT who are unhappy. See: http://www.ihatedell.net/forum/phpBB2/

[TheWhisper]

Good point regarding the feedback.
I saw a laptop - being offered for sale in London by someone with about 400 positive feedbacks. On looking into his history his prior sales were plants in America. I contacted Ebay about it as someone had clearly hijacked the account but the item remained on sale until it closed the next day for £500.

[LukieD]

yeh there used to be a scam where people bought a load of cheap items so they got a positive feedback of 20+ and then suddenly started selling DVD players, laptops, and other electronic equipment on short auctions. By the time ebay had closed the accounts they had made a couple of grand already.

[RioRodent]

I recently bought one of these - http://www.asuslaptop.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=Asus_Laptop_A6U-B104H.

Just a bit less than £600.

Perfectly happy with it.

[marcro]

I have bought 3 laptops (2 IBM's and a Sony) off ebay and been very happy with each one.