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[pikeh]

Hey dudes!

My sisters looking for a laptop for around £500. She uses it mostly for photoshop (shes doing graphic design at uni) and music and facebook (ofc).

I've looked at some samsung models like this one; LINKY but after reading reviews theres some complaints about the screen res.


Tried looking at lenovo's but (although its a shame) I'm not sure she would be sold on a name shes not heard of, if theres a decent one though I can try to persuade her. Also looked at dells etc, cant really find anything that stands out, but please prove me wrong!

I think shes after minimum 3gig ram, mini 300gig HD, I would prefer an i3 processor (I guess the i5 is out of that price range anyway).

Cheers in advance guys!

 

[old.user4556]

If it's photoshop, how important is colour accuracy?

 

[Zenith.UK]

You'd be surprised. You can get i5 processors in that price range.

Here's a selection that tick most of your specifications.

Samsung R730-JB05UK Core i3 Laptop in Red/Silver NP-R730-JB05UK - Laptops Direct
i3 - 2400Mhz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 17.3" screen with 1600x900 rez
£496.97

lenovo Ideapad G570 - i5 Windows 7 Laptop M513FUK - Laptops Direct
i5 - 2300Mhz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 15.6" screen with 1366x768 rez
£479.97

HP Pavilion dv6-3125sa Core i5 Laptop in Red XE009EA - Laptops Direct
i5, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 15.6"
£484.97

Acer Aspire 5553G Windows 7 Laptop LX.PUB02.245 - Laptops Direct
Phenom II - 2100Mhz, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 15.6" screen with 1366x768 rez
£499.97

 

[GimmlyThe3rd]

Do not buy the Acer, pile of shit, worst over heating problems and design I've ever seen. Personally I'd go Sony or Samsung.

 

[pikeh]

Thanks guys

Big G, Yeh I think the problems were with resolution, not colour.

Cheers Zenith, I've recommened the samsung and lenovo to her, Maybe the bigger screen is enough to swing it for the samsung though.

 

[Wij]

Samsung and Lenovo make decent kit. Acer and HP (consumer machines) are built from twigs and used johnnies.

 

[GimmlyThe3rd]

Second that Wij, I got a Acer and my bros got a HP, neither of us will buy either ever again.

 

[Jiggs]

I had a lenovo i3 which had a hardware fault between the gfx chip and the screen - kept losing the display signal.

Sent it back and got a Sony Vaio i3, which I am pretty happy with. I run Adobe Illustrator on it no problems.

My only grip is that I wish I'd paid a bit extra for the uprated display.

 

[Ch3tan]

another vote for Lenovo here, never had a sammy so can't comment on those. They seem to be quite well recommended though. Funny thing with HP kit is that their compaq branded laptops are quite well built, but their HP branded one's are almost as bad as dell.