Looking for a new laptop. Got £400-500 to spend.

Want to be able to use the internet to send email, have Office installed for home usage, browse the internet, store home images, carry the laptop to work office (not too heavy).

Should I get Windows 8 or will Windows 7 be fine? If I can find it on a laptop.

What’s out there, and where from?

dell outlet store

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?brandid=7&c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh

click ‘consumer laptop’ on the drop down on the left hand side (defaults to consumer desktop).

Then select Inspiron 14z Ultrabook on the ‘Family’ list below.

There’s some good value 14″ laptops there – nice blend of speed (some use SSD cache drives) and power there for good prices.

If you are happy going with a new way of doing things, then go with win 8

If you’re stuck in your ways, then go win 7

I bought a Lenovo i5/1tb/8gb thingy through Dabs/Quidco/Lenovo Cashback recently for just over £400. A lot of lappy for the money I thought.

You definitly want to be looking for one with an Ivy Bridge i5 CPU eg 3210M at least for that money. Windows 8 is what all the new laptops are running now so I would go with that too or your choice will be severly limited to older models