http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Packard-Bell-TS11-AMD-Quad-Core-15-6-Gaming-Laptop-/330815273305?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item4d06207959

looking at a laptop for my little girl, she's mainly into internet based game sand minecraft, stuff like that so would this be suitable and useable for the foreseeable future??

im not into laptops but it gets a decent cpu score on passmark compared to our ancient laptop that doesnt play minecraft well at all. cant afford to spend more than £300 so with a dedicated gfx card can i go wrong here?

looks good to me, only downside I could see is the screen is slightly small for games, but for the price you wll not get bigger

John

PB in general not great.

try the Dell Outlet.

I got an i5 with 4Gb RAM and a 1Gb dedicate gfx card for £280 and a years warranty. Was like new when I got it.

thats very cheap aspman, ill have a look

I am getting my daughter a laptop for christmas and was told HP are very good and not a bad price.

Have an HP also and it's been reliable, has a 4:3 screen which is sooo much more usable. Toshiba also do decent laptops.

Parents have a quad core AMD Acer which is fine for them but the Intel i3 / i5 are top of the heap right now.

Edited 29 October, 201213 yr by Aspman

My son has my old Packard Bell easynote laptop and it's plenty good enough for what he needs (no near as fast as my XPS i7 but that's a completly different animal)

Not sure why the bad name for Packard Bell. They are owned by HP.

In keeping with us Skoda owners I would say it was a good buy!

Historical leftovers I suppose.

I used to call them ******* hells.

think I was talking crap about £280, must have been £380.

Just get the most RAM and fastest CPU you can for you money.

Minecraft is a real memory and CPU hog. It loads up my Q6600 quad core pretty much and with the setting turned up it guzzles up over 2gb of RAM alone.

It's not a bad spec for the money actually.

Phil

Not sure why the bad name for Packard Bell. They are owned by HP

Common mistake, Packard Bell have never been part of HP. They are actually an Acer brand at the moment. The company history is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_bell

In general terms Acer will use it's own name for the better tech specs, the Packard Bell name for the better looking machines and the eMachines brand for the lower cost kit.