Laptop Advice

[leestudd30]

I've been researching laptops for ages now, and I've found 3 that I like the sound of! 2 HP Pavillion ones which have 2 different quad core chips and and an Acer one with a second gen Intel i5. They all have a pretty good spec, there is about £50 between the 3 of them, any opinions on them?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Pavilion-d ... 3a745d429d

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ACER-5750-243 ... 3f17d26825

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Pavilion-G ... 19d16c3833

[leestudd30]

Well I finally got a new one off ebay! Its an HP G6 1013Sa. Has an AMD Phenom XII quad core chip, 4GB of memory, 500GB hard drive, ATI 4250 graphics, cost me £250 plus postage!

[highlander]

That's a good price. The HP Pavilion G6 is a good machine too; we got one for my step-son to use at college, got it for under £500, and it had a Core i3 processor, and I think it had nVidia graphics, but I know the spec of the machine is good and it seems to be good value for money.

My wife has an older-model Pavilion dv9000-series "entertainment" laptop (i.e. built-in HD screen, TV tuner, remote control, Windows Media Centre, DVD playback out-of-the-box, etc) and it's been going strong these last 5 years (it had a system board replacement under the extended warranty earlier this year, other than that the only thing wrong with it is the battery is now starting to crap out).

Congrats, hope it gives you many years of reliable service!

[Irish406]

Well I finally got a new one off ebay! Its an HP G6 1013Sa. Has an AMD Phenom XII quad core chip, 4GB of memory, 500GB hard drive, ATI 4250 graphics, cost me £250 plus postage!

That's a decent price for it...good shopping.....On the hunt for one for my uncle at the moment....

[sirwiggum]

Whats HPs quality like these days?

They used to have a reputation for the solder on the charger point becoming weak.

[leestudd30]

Well it arrived about half hour ago so will be trying it out later. Is in very good nick, just a few marks on the back and I didn't realise it was in red lol.