Hey so yeah, i'm looking for a good laptop for mainly programming, schoolwork and just generally surfing the web. I have a budget of £500 at this moment but i can save up a couple of months.
I've looked at Mac's, Meh.
I have no clue about hardware so any help is appreciated.
I asked myself the same question this time last year.
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I ended up going for this, after weeks of surfing the web. It's rare to find in high street retailers but abundant online, and my model weighed in at just under the £500 mark. The pluses with this model I felt were the battery life - 9hrs on a single charge - it's weight, barely heavier than a good book - and it's specification. My model has 4GB RAM, a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo, 500GB of HDD space and - the clincher - two GPUs. An ATI Radeon 4830, more than enough to do a bit of casual gaming, and an intergrated Intel chipset GPU. The device switches between the two when plugged in and on battery, meaning that you get best battery saving performance for your situation (although this can also be overridden). Despite having a 13.3" screen it is more than enough for doing work on, surfing the web etc, and at a native of 1280x800 it isn't too shabby for playing games either. It's also remarkably thin - MacBook Air thin. It definitely isn't a netbook, the specs are gorgeous, but it isn't a full-blown 15.4" laptop either.
Hardware-wise this device is speedy. 4GB of RAM leaves it enough room to play with W7 and do whatever else you'd want to do. A 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo is speedy too, even for the mobile version of the chip, and makes minced meat of Windows 7. 500GB HDD - more than enough for just a work, programming machine. The GPU is good enough to play most of the Source games out there too, if you're so inclined.
Hope that helps :eng101:
500 GBP is like 650 euros ?
[QUOTE=Nanamil;32593468]500 GBP is like 650 euros ?[/QUOTE]581 euros at todays conversion rate (yes, the European economy is shot)
For this price the one you proposed should fit for op.
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