recommend me a good laptop for about £500?
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A 500 lb laptop?  Are you crazy?  How would you carry it?  You'd need a wheelbarrow.
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Go for a branded PC of HP or Dell.\n\nYou should look for P4 2.88Ghz or 3Ghz with 1 GB of RAM, 17" SVGA monitor, 180GB of HDD, Built in NIC with at least 32MB of video ram.
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Don't even bother trying to upgrade - buy a new one. Something 5 years old is terribly out of date, don't throw money away upgrading when you can pick up a new PC for £300. If your intent on upgrading, you want to upgrade processor and ram ideally.
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Dell Inspiron or Toshiba lapotops are a good buy. But as someone rightly said; its a mix of your budget and computing needs.
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dell , acer toshiba and HP are fairly gd laptops and not forgetting Sony if u want to pay £800+!\n\nFor a general all round gd comp you want:\n\n512MB -1024MB RAM\n \n60GB -100 GB Hard drive\n\n15.4 widescreen\n\nDvd player cd player\n\nIntel Core Duo or Pentium (not recommended Centrino or the others)\n\nAMD have gd ones go for Turion or Turion X2\n\n\nA gd graphics card maybe ATI Card \n\nWireless Card\n\nThe Windows Vista capable Logo Label\n\nu can get that for like £400-£450 on Dell.com
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Try a dell laptop. Those are great.
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I would suggest a GeForce 6200 from newegg.com
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Compaq is quite good. The ideal one would be an Intel Celeron though-great comp!
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the HP Pavilion dv6000t is a pretty good laptop and starts at $580. you can customize it yourself with a few free upgrades atm.\nhttp://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Usage&v1=Entertainment+Notebooks&series_name=dv6000t_series
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If you r not a pro user and need the computer for basic stuff like email, web, music, films etc. you can buy one for as little as $300-400 depending on what deal u land. The specs you can expect will be something like this: Celeron-M or Core Solo cpu 1.4-1.66Ghz, 256-512mb ram, CD-RW/DVD drive, 40-60gb HDD, wi-fi wireless. If you want to go even cheaper, get one with an AMD cpu (like Sempron) instead of those intel chips. Check the weekly ads for big stores. This week both Office Depot and Walmart had sub $400 notebooks.
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u can buy cheaper notebooks at a better spec look around before you commit to sony, its only a name after all
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If you are looking for a good looking premium notebook : Go for Sony Vaio\n\nif you want real value for your money: Get Acer\n\nHP (Compaq) is heavy - so i wouldnt recommend it\n\nDell - I have no idea!
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for the best value/performance ratio, i suggest you try checking out aldi or lidl... i know it sounds crazy, but they actually use good quality components from well-known manufacturers such as pioneer and samsung... you don't end up spending money on a brand name.\n\ni got my laptop from lidl about 18 months ago and it was as good a spec as anything out there - and it's still up there, no problems whatsoever.\n\nit also has a three year guarantee, which dell will charge several hundred quid for...\n\notherwise,  toshiba machines are generally regarded as being very reliable. \n\nof course, if you're not doing a lot of gaming, pretty much any laptop will do the trick nowadays. i would advise against a laptop with shared graphics memory however...\n\ntry and get one that has its own dedicated graphics card and video memory...
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Under a $1000? That's a good price you could get a solid laptop for that. I recommend a HP DV230 because its got a duo processor, Windows Media Center Edition(the ultimate edition for gamers), TV Tuner card, in addition you get an Express Upgrade to VIsta Home Premium when it comes out. But those features are optional, so go to www.hp.com. Its like $1000 even with taxes for all the features.
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I really like my Sony VAIO. It is kinda pricey (around $1500) but very good quality.
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600$ is a tight budge, so you might want to look for a slightly used laptop. But good companies are dell, toshiba, and gateway. but quality over bells and whistles and you won't regret it.\nGood luck.
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pc world they have one fo £400 its by advent and it is the best ive seen from a retailer. it has 1gb of ram a 100gb hardrive and loads of extras snap it up quick.