Laptop Wanted - Whats good for around the 1K mark

[monk_13]

As above.

Laptop is about to suffer from an untimely death. Possibly via a sudden stop after flying across the room. It's over 3 years old though, so it hasn't done too badly.

Budget of around 1K give or take a little bit. Mainly used for interwebs browsing and movie watching/ multimedia duties whilst on site, but would also like it to be capable of basic photo/ movie editing.

I know not of quadi5intelpentiumi7processorthingamebobs, so please spare me the techobable as it doesn't mean that much to me.

Oh, and would also like to purchase Tuesday, so readily available is also a big +

[MrSparkle]

PM Dr.J

He owns/runs http://techtoyz.com.au/

They are in morley. I'm sure he will be able to help you out.

[South]

Macbook Air

[Ryan1080]

Are you after as much performance as you can get for the price (for under 1K it would come in a bulky size) or do you want a small yet still very capable lappy?

[monk_13]

Weight is a consideration as it will be flying up to work with me, so I guess a combination of all three???

Mac's are not really my thing. Have used a couple and wasn't much of a fan. Or it could be that change scares me...

[PAGZ]

I picked up an Asus i3 for $600, light weight and fast enough to run most games. Think there down to 560 now

[peter_piper]

I hate acer, but for $600 you cant go past this i5:

http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Computers-and-Notebooks/Computer-Notebooks-and-Laptops/AC57502434?cmpdt=20111106&cmpcr=Acer_Aspire&cmptp=HPB&cmpprv=HPB&cmplnk=frame1



Just format it and reinstall 7 when you get it (you should do this anyway, regardless of who you buy your laptop from).

[Ryan1080]

If you want a small and light lappy that's easy to carry around, I bought this earlier in the year:
http://www.portacom.com.au/portacom_special.pdf

That 11.6" Acer for $799 (third one on the first row). I also went for overkill and chucked in 8Gb of RAM in it from crucial.com (the price diff between that and a 4 gig stick was negligible, so might as well lol). I think you can also get it in i5 (and i7) for couple of hundred extra, so may be within your budget still if you want more power. Only weighs like 1.2 kilos. It's thin (not as thin as mac air, but close), and the battery lasts for 6 hours which makes it perfect for playing movies while on flights etc.

Or the Acer S3 Ultrabook. But I heard Asus is releasing an Ultrabook that is meant to be better than the Acer.

[Syncope]

Add a couple of hundred more and get the i5 Air. By the time it comes to sell it in a few years you'll still get around ~400-500 anyway, so it works out around your budget. You won't have to worry about paying hundreds for the windows 8 upgrade, anti virus programs or worry about sending it off for months at a time when something goes wrong.

[Adr3naL1N]

i picked up a Dell Inspirion 14 the other week for about $750, i like the dell laptops, also have a dell 14 vostro from work.

my inspirion 14 has got the Intel Core I5, 2.4GHZ Processor turbo boost to 3GHZ, 4gigs of ram, 600 gig HDD, hdmi, usb 3.0 x 2 and 1 x usb 2.0, windows 7 pretty decent graphics card but forgot what one exactly, no dramas since owning it so far.

[N14TI]

Acer i5 at officeworks for $594, got JB HiFi to price match so then I get $79 cashback. $515 after cashback couldn't get any better deal so pick one up yesterday. 5750-2434G64Mnkk model number if your interested.

[monk_13]

Thanks for the info so far. Will be doing a bit of running around tomorrow to see whats around.

Ryan1080's 11.6" jobbie and an Inspirion 13z are in the lead so far.

Keep the suggestions coming

[protecon]

I've still got an ASUS i7 lappy sitting around - $600 and it's yours.
http://www.asus.com.au/Notebooks/Multimedia_Entertainment/N61Jq/

[Torquen]

Anything < $1000 and not a Mac > Mac. :)

Avoid HP, my current laptop is a HP and after how shitty this one has been I wouldn't buy another.

[Lasoya]

Good guys have a sale atm on toshiba i7's for like $1024, i use it as my spare lappy, runs bf3

[R3N]

Shane, have a look on the Acer website, they have a fair few cashback deals going atm.

[Adr3naL1N]

Thanks for the info so far. Will be doing a bit of running around tomorrow to see whats around.

Ryan1080's 11.6" jobbie and an Inspirion 13z are in the lead so far.

Keep the suggestions coming

if u go the dell go the 14 over the 13.

[monk_13]

Well its shopping time. Thanks for the suggestions all. Will see how I go.

[R3N]

Shano look here

http://shopap.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/auweb/LenovoPortal/en_AU/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=3634951826AE4D3881BFFF1AC5FCD957&current-category-id=AD8F09B48F4D8D030E7BC00BFA2FBFB5&action=init

Lenovos are pretty good deal at the moment with their sale. Oops didn't see that you wanted it straight away.

What do you guys think of this for usual emails, browsing, word, excel type stuff?
http://shopap.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/auweb/LenovoPortal/en_AU/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=173&Code=E420_ANZ_HP1&category-id=A7C98E2DB7AFD2FE6E59585DF33F04D3

For about $500 I thought I couldn't go wrong with a Lenovo vs what Asus or Acer are offering

[TJ]

Fuck thats not bad for the price.

[VRX]

If it's not too late http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XC7841/toshiba-satellite-p750-02q-3d-notebook

[angry_viet_man]

a little more money u could have this..

$1199
N53SV-SZ539V
CPU: Intel 2nd Generation i7 2630QM 2GHz(Turbo 2.9GHz)
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
RAM: 16GB DDR3
HDD: 750GB SATA
Graphic: Nvidia GT 540M
2GB Dedicated VGA
Screen: 15.6” LED Screen
* 2yrs Warranty * Bluetooth
* WiFi N * Blu-Ray Combo * HDMI * 6 Cell Battery

[TheChad]

STOP what you are doing.

go to graysonline.com

i bought a hp pavillion dv6 factory refurbish (had bad chipset, replaced at hp):

i7 quad core 2ghz
4g ram
1gb ati graphics card,
high def sound etc
hdmi
blah blah blah
1 year warrangty

$650 posted with a good bag.


graysonline is recommended in the older laptop thread (if you search).

imagine my laptop +$350 of more bits, could get an awesome deal...


infact i think this is exactly or almost exactly the same deal...
http://www.graysonline.com/retail/ld945par_kd241pa/computers-and-it-equipment/hp-pavilion-dv6-4006tx-15-6-inch-argento-blush-notebook-with-laptop-bag?spr=true
or spend $815 including postage and get:
http://www.graysonline.com/retail/ld948par_kd241pa/computers-and-it-equipment/hp-pavilion-dv7-5003tx-17-3-inch-argento-blush-notebook-with-laptop-bag?spr=true

the bag is good for travel, eg flying too.