[localareamitten]

A fairly basic laptop? My mother is wanting to get one and she doesn't need it for anything advanced, just word processing and emailing really.

She had a Packard Bell EasyOne Silver which she liked and found fairly easy to use but we had a house fire which burnt everything including computers

 

[Rebellion88]

To be honest anything will really do for them tasks, i would focus on something that is light (less than 2.5kg) and portable with a good battery life. Word processing and emails would be fine for a machine with a celeron or a sempron, 512mb Ram and 40GB hard drive +.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115333

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...9kdWN0X3NwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z&product_uid=119776

The 2nd one is very good value.

 

[localareamitten]

Thanks for your advice, I shall have a look at those

 

[TheMatt]

Hi,

What is your budget? These are some good basic laptops. The Second one is a little more high end.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115298
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115294

 

[localareamitten]

Hi,

What is your budget? These are some good basic laptops. The Second one is a little more high end.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115298
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834115294

i think about £500 budget. I shall check out those links, xx

 

[localareamitten]

also, what does anyone think of Dell? they've one for £349 that I was considering.

 

[TheMatt]

There are people out there that love them, and people that hate them. I have never really hated them, I just don't perfer to get them.

I think eb might be showing up soon...

 

[Rebellion88]

Dell's are built strong, i dislike toshiba, think there cheap and dreadful. On the other hand Acer are excellent and i personally never had a problem with them. HP are good too but a bit more exspensive and last but not least IBM are great, built strong, every part can be replaced with ease but there looks are visually great.

 

[TheMatt]

I assume you will be purchasing in the UK, so here are some good laptops.
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=262505&CatId=0 <<< Really nice

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=248623&CatId=0 <<< Also good