What Laptop to buy?

Hi everyone decided to take the plunge and buy a new laptop as fed up of the old one cutting out every time the charger comes loose or that looking to spend between 300-500 and wondered if anyone knew what good choices were out there just now.

Thanks for looking
Duncan

You will get a better spec laptop for your money if you buy Refurbished, something like this > HP DV7-7063EA Intel Core i7 Windows 7 Home Premium 2TB 17.3" Laptop (A2/2571) | eBay

Whatever way you go get the best spec you can afford

I have been on the search for a laptop of a few months now, you can get good deals at dell especially when then have flash sales, you can get i5 OR i7 from 329 upwards, only issue with dell is no optical drives on most. PC world have a acer with I7 at £499 on sale at the moment that ticks all the box's but uses an onboard intelhd4400 graphics graphics card. I chose not to buy as I wanted dedicated graphics card. John lewis had a lenovo Z50-70 that had everthing for £549 I7, 8 gig ram, dedicated graphics and 1tb hard drive. I just could not get the otherhalf to say "yes" LOL.

I don't recomand you to buy HP laptops, thay have heat problems, i think HP-a are poor quality laptops or I'm just unlucky,
I have a HP DV6-2137SL laptop and it was in service 2 times the first year, the first time defective HDD, the second defective MBO and HDD (again).
It heats a lot, but i solved the problem by buying a aftermarket laptop cooler.

Personaly i recomand you an ASUS.

Recieved my dell a day early, going from a 15.6 to 17.3 the laptop is massive. Feels completely different from my acer and more like a lenovo with sharper edges. One of the main reasons for changing laptops was that the acer always run extreamly to the point it could burn your leg. This new Dell I7 runs so cool its great. Getting used to it will take time but so far so good.

Is it touchscreen @kegnkiwi ?
Mine should of been delivered Friday but tracking now says Monday, seems to have taken ages

No it turned out not to be touch screen, it states hd+truelife pannel. It was all very confusing at the point of ordering and the live chat was down all week. Since the pc world sale ended on Wednesday there are now lots of new laptops to choose from and a number with the same new 5th gen I7 as mine but the cost are at least £160.00 more than I paid.

Thanks mate, I was going to buy your one too would of been gutted if it turned out to be touch as they told me it wasn't

Thanks

fidimoj said:

I don't recomand you to buy HP laptops, thay have heat problems, i think HP-a are poor quality laptops or I'm just unlucky,
I have a HP DV6-2137SL laptop and it was in service 2 times the first year, the first time defective HDD, the second defective MBO and HDD (again).
It heats a lot, but i solved the problem by buying a aftermarket laptop cooler.

Personaly i recomand you an ASUS.

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I agree, Asus do nice stuff, but I did buy a HP i7 (Envy) last July, runs very cool indeed. I was quite prepared to use a cooler but don't see the need (yet), not that I use it for anything intensive. But an older i5 (Elite) did get pretty warm until I sat it on a cooler pad. No h/w problems with either touch wood.

trevortron said:

I agree, Asus do nice stuff, but I did buy a HP i7 (Envy) last July, runs very cool indeed. I was quite prepared to use a cooler but don't see the need (yet), not that I use it for anything intensive. But an older i5 (Elite) did get pretty warm until I sat it on a cooler pad. No h/w problems with either touch wood.

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What a coincidence, mine was an i5, sometimes it was soo hot that i was no able to touch it. Now with the cooler its ok.