Rob Beard wrote: > James Grabham wrote: > >> Sooo, 16th birthday a week on Sunday, college starts in Sepember, so I >> want a laptop. >> >> Looking at £300 or less. >> >> > > If you could manage to stretch your budget just a slight bit more you > could get a Dell Vostro with AMD Mobile Athlon X2 or Turion X2, 2GB Ram, > 160GB hard drive, DVD writer and 15.4 inch screen. Dell are currently > offering free delivery on laptops over £299 + VAT. I think the one I > spec'd up for a colleague at work was just over £370, I know a tad more > but if you can get it then it's worth it. I think that had Vista > Business too because he wanted to downgrade to XP Pro. > > Otherwise you should be able to get a single core Athlon Vostro for > around £300 I would expect although performance in Vista will be um... > slow. (Although you can upgrade the memory on there which will speed > things up). > > Rob > > I assume you are talking about the vostro 1000, which is basically a black inspiron of a couple of generations ago. The build isn't as good as the newer vostro's, as it is essentially a consumer product. It doesn't really fit into the smallish size requirement.
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