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My son has asked me to recommend a laptop for him, mostly used for emails, facebook and general internet stuff and online banking, photos but not heavy duty editing in the likes of Photoshop or heavy duty gaming. His budget is between £300 & £350.00.

I don't have a lot of experince of laptops so I'm hoping you guys might have a recommendation or two.

A couple I've looked at are Acer 5336 and Toshiba Satellite C660-115 slightly above his budget, are these good laptops any better or worse that the other.

The Toshiba at John lewis attracts me more because the give a 2 yr guarantee whereas Comets Acer is only a one yr guarantee. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Go to Tesco and buy the cheapest they have. It will be up to all he wants and will happily run something like elements.

When it goes wrong which it will if fixable fix it, if not bin it and buy another.

I'm sat here typing on a Benq that cost me £1K in 2003. It was the Rolls Royce of laptops. Would I spend the money again absolutely not :D
 
Ive heard a lot of good things about dell`s customer serivces and with them you`d be able to spec the laptop how you want it so perhaps thats worth a look.
Im not sure what moden toshiba`s are like but the older ones i rated very highly, ive known one to last 10 years and only stopped because of getting drenched in the rain.
 
Tescos is generally not the cheapest.... Also be aware that laptop manufacturers have various different versions, all branded with the same model number (they can and do vary processor, memory and disk size). Check what you are getting is what you think you are getting...
 
From experience, I'd have to say avoid the Acer. The Mrs had 2 fail on her, and My rother also had one die. Mouse uttons collapsing and severe overheating were the problems there.

From a work perspective, we used to have Dell and Toshiba machines i nthe office a few years back. The dells were ok, but batteries were poor. The Toshiba was bullet proof in comparison and it was used in some industrial places too.

Personally, I like HP/Compaq machines, I find their build quility to be substantial, and their machines to be fairly decent in terms of cost/function.

In your budget, I'd say this or better still, spend a tiny bit more for this.

Of course, these are my personal thoughts/opinions and others are available

K
 
I would get the cheapest laptop from John Lewis, probably the Toshiba. Toshiba make fairly reliable and under-rated machines.

The Toshiba C660 will be much more useful and powerful than a netbook, and the 2 year warranty makes it a great deal.
 
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