Laptop advice

[Alison556]

My niece's Compaq CQ60 is dead - put it into the repair shop and he says the motherboard is fried and it'll cost about £150-£200 to repair.

The repair shop do refurbished laptops and given the fact that she's just killed what was an expensive laptop when she got it, I'm not keen to buy another expensive laptop, so thought refurbished might be the way to go - they do Dell's and they're business not home - my own laptop is a business one and I can't fault it.

The question is - is a refurbished lappy going to be OK? And if I put the link to the models they do, is the Dell the best one or are any of the others better? It looks like they're pretty old models and I don't want to go and make a mistake buying one.

http://3000rpm.co.uk/acatalog/Laptops-and-Netbooks-Refurbished.html

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks

Alison

 

[Alarm]

Not worth it, small hard drives and small RAM.

Try this, http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/toshib...refurbished-15-6-laptop-red-10934137-pdt.html

A bit more money but far more laptop and not that expensive.

 

[stuartturbo]

Asda has reduced the pricing on its two best selling laptops – the Toshiba Satellite C660D-1C6 and the Toshiba Satellite C660-21Z.

The C660-21Z, which is run off an Intel Core i3 processor, is now available for £319 while the C660D-1C6, which carries and AMD E300 processor, is priced at £259.

Brought very similar that range
http://direct.asda.com/Toshiba-Sate...AM---320-Hard-Drive/000513483,default,pd.html

that will surf and do most stuff very well compared to previous laptop

 

[Stivino]

I was in my local Sainsbury's tonight. They're having a laptop clearance sale and some of the prices were very good indeed.