Looking for laptop - £400 max.

[miggols99]

I'm looking for a laptop for my sister with a maximum price of £400 (but I'm not buying it ;)). The best one I have found so far is this:

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/5890778/Hewlett-Packard-G50-110EA-Athlon-X2-QL-60-1-9GHz-2GB-120GB-15-4-DVD-SM-Vista-Home-Basic-Laptop-Notebook/Product.html

What she needs


2GB of RAM if possible (1GB is ok)
Some kind of Windows...
A dedicated graphics card (or is integrated Intel graphics good enough for Paint Shop Pro??)
HDD size not really important
Nice looking
Webcam

Do any of you guys know better ones?

[Prefix100]

I'd go for this one personally. (http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/5826969/Sony-Vaio-NR32-M-S-Pentium-Dual-CoreT2370-1-73GHz-2GB-200GB-15-4-DVD-SM-Vista-Home-Premium-Laptop-Notebook/Product.html)

USB web cams are cheap enough, I've seen this laptop in action, it's pretty sweet.

You should show here a Ubuntu LiveCD on it as well, if I remember correctly a lot of stuff worked well, Compiz etc, out of box from the LiveCD.

[miggols99]

But that laptop only has Intel integrated graphics...the NVIDIA graphics on the HP is a lot better. How are Sony Vaios? I've heard Sony isn't all that great. And it looks like it has very bad battery life :(

And I don't think she'd like to lug around a usb webcam..and you have to remove it just to shut it. It's just not worth it I think.

[Prefix100]

Fair enough :)

[gn2]

This one should fit the bill perfectly: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/144181

This one's much cheaper but lacks built in webcam: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146022

[miggols99]

That first one looks nice. So I guess the next question is Nvidia vs. ATI and which looks nicer out of the two styles...

[super.rad]

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread as I'm considering getting a laptop for around the same price soon. Have you had a look on the dell website, some of their laptops aren't bad and you can customise the parts to fit your needs.

[tuxxy]

Yes nvidia > intel, Sony only include nvidia chips in their high spec laptops.