I'm was making a funny, chillax

See what I mean?

Jim, my recommendation would be a Dell. I've had 2 laptops and 3 desktops from them and never had any hardware issues at all. Currently got an XPS17, paid about £550 for it with a 15% coupon, which are easy to come by if you search the voucher sites.

Got to agree dell for me to and the after sales is good from my experience.

Charger went on this studio 1749 phoned one day UPS arrived ten am next morning with new charger.

Got to agree that Dell are a good reliable make, but as both myself and Lady E have said Acer's are cheaper and NOT as unreliable as has been made out by others on here, was just trying to point you in the direction of "more bang for your bucks" to use an amearicanism .

Don't forget your Dell quidco voucher codes and cashback... http://quid.co/tUpPc

See what I mean?

It's simple: buy an Acer or a Dell.

Or HP

Or Toshiba

Basically. Buy a brand, not some supermarket random name.

My vote is for Toshiba or Dell. Amazon usually have good prices and if yuo have a nectar card pick up a few points too. I have a 6 year old tosh that's used daily with upgraded 2MB RAM that I got for £10. Work use Tosh & Dell kit.

2MB?! Awesome!

My nan's got an ageing Toshiba and it seems to be going well - quite nice machines too.

I randomly decided I wanted a laptop for about £300, as I have a pc and its only for uni/attaching to my TV/being lazy (like now). I ended up with one from Dell outlet because there just wasn't anything to beat the price. It did have a little hiccup, but they took it away, changed a part and had it back to me within about 2-3 days. It's pretty and its fast and I like it lots... sorry that I don't have anything more techy to add to this haha!

The screen (or Graphics card) of my 3½/4 year old Laptop has bust and now it's out of warranty, I think there's no point in repairing it. So I am in the market for a 15" Laptop for a budget of £500. I will use it mostly for surfing the net and watch the occasional DVD. A decent sized hard drive would be nice and good battery life (over 2 hours per charge).

So what do you recommend I buy?

Second hand Apple MacBook Pro.

My 2 3/4 year old MBP 13" battery still lasts between 4 & 6 hours depending on usage. The MBPro will not lose that much value over the next 2-3 years. Stick windows 7 on it using bootcamp if you really must use it.......

Should pick one up around the £500 mark now.

Mine has 8GB ram & 128GB SSD, with an external 250GB USB drive (the one that came out of the MBP) put in a USB housing and 2TB of network storage. Thats enough for me