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Old 15-Apr-2008, 01:54 PM
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After a new laptop for general use and running virtual machines.

After a Dual Core 2 processor about 2gb and 2gb of memory. Budget of around £500 to £600 any recommendations.

 
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Old 15-Apr-2008, 07:39 PM
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After a new laptop for general use and running virtual machines.

After a Dual Core 2 processor about 2gb and 2gb of memory. Budget of around £500 to £600 any recommendations.
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We buy quite a few Toshiba's at work and they have been good so far.

Not sure you will get a 2Ghz C2D Processor & 2GB of ram for 5-600 without compromising on other specs.

Here is an example of one for a touch over 600, but it's only 1GB of ram. Pretty cheap and easy to upgrade the ram though.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134711

If you opt for a Core Duo or a Turion X2 you will easily get what you want inside that budget.

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i bought a Toshiba, dual core, 2 gig a memory.........£499, had no problems as yet!!

 
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virtual machines = memory

think about possibly 4GB if you intend to run vista aswell, 2GB is ok if its xp based

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We only sell Toshiba's now as there after sales service is the best we have found. I have a U300 1.6Ghz with 2Gb Ram, fast enough for me to work with in the workshop or take out on-site.

Toshiba was doing free memory upgrades but not sure if it is still going. Also some laptops still have cash back offers and free upgrade to 3 year warranty. But the best bit about mine is it had Vista Business install but came with disk to roll back to XP Pro.

 
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I've been looking at these three..

Asus C90

Dell XPS M1530

Macbook

 
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I have the M1530 and its an awesome laptop! i would recommend getting an extra 2GB over standard (Will be doing this soon my self) - Can't fault anything wrong with it, does everything i want it to do and it looks sexy.

If you got any questions about the laptop fire away and i'll see if i can answer them.

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Just ordered a M1530 for myself (3 GB RAM).
How you finding it?

Dell reckon delivery on the 12th May, seems a long time!
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