Re: HP or Toshiba cheap lappy - XP or Vista - which is my best choice - opinions please
- From: "stephen" <stephen_hope@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:48:32 GMT
"Andreas Schulze-Bäing" <mibmab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Am Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:23:52 +0100 schrieb JohnB:http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/search/index.html?rb=28352149205&strSearch=&bolShowAll=true&intStoreID=5&intCatID=10&bolShowAll=true
My (early) teenage son "needs" a laptop. Will be mostly for homework,
email, web browsing and light gaming - he is a Runescape nut - but
nothing more intensive. eBuyer has two tempting offers at the moment.
HP RU962AA 510 - XP Home at £289.99
The HP 510 must be one of the cheapest laptops models on the market. This
blog entry describes it as a no-frills laptop.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/29/hp-releases-no-frills-hp-510-notebook/
And i guess that's what describes it well. For what your son plans to do
like email, web browsing etc. the speed would be sufficient. Also the
light-gaming like Runescape should run fine. But any games using 3D would
run rather slow. Also you should consider that the maximum memory that the
laptop can take is 1 GB. So updating to Vista at some point might be
limited by that.
or
Toshiba Satellite A100-434 running Vista Home basic at £309.97
Similarly spec'd otherwise.
Yes - similar. But the Toshiba could take up to 2GB memory. But as long as
you stick to XP not really necessary.
So anyone have any comments on which may be the better buy.
i would look at the Toshiba since my experience is the warranty & support is
much better.
Modern laptops are fairly reliable - but Tosh have been good when i have had
issues in warranty on home machines, and HP exactly the opposite.
(although HP are good at work - maybe they try harder when 1000 laptops are
involved).
But - i dont particularly want a Vista memory hog - the Op Sys will need
around 1 Gbyte of memory to work reasonable well - so look for an XP end of
line machine.
some suppliers get the end of line models - eg:
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/
I would go for the HP. But I would also consider the HP 510 with Pentium-M
(Centrino) - model RU964AA. That would give you quite a bit more
performance and due to better power-management (speed-step) potentially
longer battery life. IMHO worth the extra pounds.
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/123094/rb/0
Agreed - Centrinos seem pretty good.
I have 2 otherwise very similar Tosh L10 models a couple of years old (for
kids), but the Centrino has double the battery life, and seems a bit faster
for about the same clock rate.
Mind - Core chips are now default choice and are supposed to be better /
cheaper / faster (but the suppliers always say that)....
--
If a 15"-model is an option and the budget would allow it, I would as well
consider the HP NX6325 with AMD Sempron 3500+, which is equipped with 1GB
RAM: http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/124974
Andreas
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