[matthew5276]

Hi,

I'm wanting to buy a laptop for below £400, preferably below £350. I need it to be able to access wireless internet, be able to do a few things at once, msn, internet, music etc. and also to be able to play a few games. The game im playing most now is Guild Wars, which isnt graphics heavy,

reccomended 2ghz processor, 1gb ram, 5700+

although, I played it fine on my old pc at 2.8 GZ P4, 512Mb ram, intergrated GMA 900 graphics. Most laptops I have looked at in this price range exceed those specs. Also, if possible to be able to play counter strike source, but i understand it is a bit more graphics heavy, and I dont need to be able to play it on a laptop, as I have a PC aswel..

Any reccomendation would be good.

Thanks,

Matt.

[Spencer2004]

the dell inspiron series is cheap and meet your needs at the same time. the inspiron 1525 offers a dual core processor which is great for multitasking and will run Guild Wars easily. also at the moment it only costs £360 inc vat and postage

i have ordered 4 laptops before from dell and they offer good service.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...hs1&l=en&s=dhs

[matthew5276]

Hi. I had looked at DELL laptops before, and thought that they looked like the best new laptops, reliable, and my main PC is a dell, and I've had no problems with it. However, I've been looking at a few refurbished laptops and found this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...m=null&tm=null

Which is cheaper and seems to be a bit better, mainly the graphics card, and a few other things on it.

Wondering if you think the extra £50 is worth it for the new dell, even if it is a little worse.

Thanks.

[philthomas]

I wouldn't trust anything refurbished from PC World personally, they are a bunch of cowboys.

Another one to consider is this

[Spencer2004]

i wouldnt get the referb because the processor is an amd which performs slower than intel even at the same clock speeds.

and on to your other question, well for the extra £50 you would get an extra 1gb ram and 40gb disk space. the extra ram would help vista run faster and its allways good to have lost of storage space but they arent essentiall.

[matthew5276]

Has anyone had any experience with PCworld refurbs? and why are they worse than other companies.

Thanks for all the links,

Matt.