Just be aware that laptops in that price range wont run for much longer than an hour/hour and a half (without being plugged in (and in a years time that will be closer to 30 mins battery life)), its almost impossible to upgrade them and they are vastly under-powerd (in that price range) in comparison to a desktop.

Advice for getting one wise, id head over to PC world (assumeing your near one), for something in the lower price ranger there be fine. Id advoid the “sign up to our broadband for 2 years get a half price laptop” offers as in a years time your probably need a new laptop (depending on how much you use it and how power hungry the programs you run are) and 3G services are highly likely to be a lot lot cheaper in a years time. If price is the issue you might well be able to find something good on the net (ebuyer used to have some nicely priced laptops) for a few less pennys. Also be carefull with ebay as offten there refurbished and the batterys are buggerd. Hope that helps a dash, sorry if it doesnt 🙁

@photographthesun 235905 wrote:

(and in a years time that will be closer to 30 mins battery life)

Very true, why is that ?
(Mine used to last about an hour, now its about 4 minutes!)

but in might say in that lost sumwhere Lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(electricity)#Life_of_rechargeable_batteries

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