[Closed] Best laptop for £300

To do what?

browse internet,store photos,kids homework, thats it really

It would be hard to buy a modern laptop which wouldn't cope with that, TBH. For £300 quid I'd be tempted to pop to Cash Converters / similar and try and get you and the kid one each.

Other than that, buy known brands. Lenovo / Toshiba / Dell / HP etc.

Chromebook.

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for photos Jamie?

Chromebook and some change

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for photos Jamie?

If required just for viewing, then yeah, why not. Chromebooks can [url= http://goo.gl/tVFEG0 ]view pics off most external devices[/url]

Although, using cloud services for the photos would be preferential.[/s]

Ignore me. I thought OP said [i]view[/i], not [i]store[/i], pics.

ASUS do laptops for that sort of money, always come out very high in reliability tests, one of the largest computer making companies in the world.

You wouldn't get many photos on a chromebook would you? I'd bay a basic £250 windows laptop and spend the change on an external drive. That'll photos put the in two places which is a good thing.

eg:
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/D0X08EAABU-Compaq-CQ58-300sa_1336507.html
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/X55A-SX203H-ASUS-X55A-SX203H_1352814.html

Although I'd blow the budget and get something a fair bit better for not much more:
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/59406101-Lenovo-G505_1536149.html

This was just a quick look at the headline specs. They might all be rubbish 🙂

Asus X102BA

Bought one of these recently, pretty good, ideal fr what you are after.

Check out refurbished laptops. Got an Asus i5 500gb for £329 from Curry's a couple of years ago...should have been £600+ new. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it when I got it.

Quite a few on their website that meet your price and below.

+1 for refurb, I've done laptop, iPad and iPhone all refurbed over the last few years with no problems at all.

Can you get chromebooks that will take an extra traditional drive for photos etc? Or would that kill the battery life?

I have a great 15" Samsung I3 laptop for sale, windows 8, 1 year old and in mint condition

j3 how much you looking for it , where are you, got any pics?

I'm in Essex, will take £275, paid £429, it's a samsung NP3530EC

If interested I will take some pictures

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Hi thanks for the pics, i am willing to buy second hand but not at that price as i can get a new one for not much more with warranty, if your willing to come down a fair bit we could do a deal.

Where do u see it?

amazon

No, I meant what price do you offer for mine

£180 posted?

Wot about this?

[url= http://www.tesco.com/direct/asus-x550ca-156-intel-celeron-dual-core-6gb-1tb-dark-grey-laptop/479-6682.prd?skuId=479-6682&pageLevel=sku&_requestid=40239 ]Tesco clicky.[/url]

Decent manufacturer, decent reviews, £50 off, and it's from Tesco so if it goes wrong you can just take it back to store. Plus get/use clubcard points if you use them.

Also, they are doing:

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Can you get chromebooks that will take an extra traditional drive for photos etc? Or would that kill the battery life?

I got a refurbed Acer a while back, a lot of "refurbed" stuff from big chains and their resellers are effectively new. Wouldn't think twice about that as an option.

Laptops are a bit weird because you're not just comparing spec, and in fact the spec isn't all that important for the reasons above- modern PCs all kick ass. But ergonomics come into it a lot, that Acer had a horrible, horrible touchpad so for all everthing else was perfect, it got sent back. And it's hard to predict how screens perform too. So try before you buy (or order from somewhere with easy returns) is a very good idea imo.

Yeah, I'd second that.

We bought a netbook a little while back. Due to the way the licensing works they're all much of a muchness spec wise so there was little to choose between them; poking at them in PC World rapidly demonstrated that there was a world of difference in keyboard and screen quality between brands.

+1 Northwind,refurbs are good value. Your own "new" laptop is secondhand as soon as it has left the shop and you plug it in.....

-1 on refurbs. They are always promoted as pretty much new and products that have only had the box opened but I have a couple of things with minor niggly faults that where obviously returned for a reason and not fixed/refurbed in any way. Pot luck I suppose

Sorry , can't sell for that, it's as new