Laptop Recommendations

Hi

I am looking for a new laptop as my current laptop is dieing.


I will only really be using it for e-mails internet and watching dvds.

I have a budget of £500 or around that price mark.


I would like it to have Windows 7 Home Premuim preinstalled on it.


Edit - Just so people know I live in the UK

Any ideas or suggestions welcome.


Cheers,

To be able to give you a good reply, tell us how the computer are going to be used (gaming laptop, multimedia laptop, only using office etc etc..).

Meanwhile you have laptops at the famous newegg.com, look here and by using finansportalen.se I was able to see that 500 pounds is 783.56 USD right now.

(I now see that you already mentioned how the computer is going to be used, but I recommend that you think one more time about it and that you check out the newegg link as well.)

I'd also recommend going with 'corporate model' laptop. They might not have a ton of fancy features but they generally have excellent warranty.

HP EliteBooks are a good start, most have 3yr warranty, at least in the US. I'm not sure if the warranty changes across the pond.

I'm very confuse right now on which one to choose from. Both cost the same and the only differences are LCD 17" and 15" inch and one comes with Quad and the other with I7.

Should I upgrade:
1) The ram to 6GB or 8GB or stay 4GB
2) For M17x processor to Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme Mobile Processor QX9300 (2.53GHz/ 1066 FSB/ 12MB Cache)

or

3) For M15x processor to Intel® Core™ I7-920XM Mobile Processor Extreme Edition (2GHz, turbo up to 3.2GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)


I'm not much of a hard core gamer but I do wish to have an Alienware for my own.

Please give me recommendations about these two different spec. Any advices on upgrade or suggestions will be taken seriously.


M15x Spec
- Metallic Space Black Base
- Intel® Core™ I7-820QM Mobile Processor (1.73GHz, turbo up to 3.06GHz, 8MB L3 Cache)
- 4GB Dual-channel 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2 x 2GB)
- 500GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
- Slot Load Fixed Blu-ray BD-ROM / DVD + /-RW Combo Drive
- 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M

M17x Spec
- Metallic Space Black Base
- Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9100 (2.26GHz/ 1066 FSB/ 12MB Cache)
- 4GB Dual-channel 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2 x 2GB)
- 500GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
- Slot Load Fixed Blu-ray BD-ROM / DVD + /-RW Combo Drive
- Single 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M


Thanks for all your help.