Hi,

I'm looking to purchase a newer laptop, my price range goes up to £450. I have the Samsung NP350V5C 15.6-inch Laptop (Silver) (Intel Core i3 2370M 2.4GHz, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, I'd like a newer and faster one.

Can anyone recommend one for me please?

Get quite good deals here mate, I like one of the toshiba models myself but there a few good ones.

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/

I think the one that you have now is pretty good. You can get faster than that, but eventually it will get progressively slower.
If I was you, I would buy a Solid State Drive. A SSD is a hard drive but it has no physical moving parts in it. It is basically just a huge chuck of circuit board that stores all your stuff on it and reads/writes much faster.
I don't know if these numbers mean much to you, but my SSD reads at 550Mb/s and writes at 510Mb/s. Whereas a HDD (a hard drive with moving parts) reads & writes at about 126Mb/s generally. So a SSD is sometimes 5 times faster.

If you got a SSD you'd need to reinstall your Operating System (Windows 7/Vista I presume). You would also need to replace your Hard Drive.
Here's a video explaining how:



There are a few downsides to having a SSD though. The only thing I can think of is the smaller disk space. They generally come in 80gb, 120gb, 240gb and 420+gb. With me I have an external hard drive as well as my SSD.

Here's a reliable SSD by the same manufacturer as mine. I find them very reliable: http://www.ebuyer.com/387080-sandisk-128gb-pulse-ssd-slim-sdssdp-128g-g25

I hope this helped a little bit

Yeah cheers flapjack, I will but one with a bigger screen, I have 15.6 atm so would like a white one 17.3".

Sony VAIO Fit 15 E Intel Core i5 Processor, 4Gb RAM, 750Gb Hard Drive, 15.5 inch Laptop - White

Any good?

The ram is smaller, but the processor is better so i would say it's faster because the processor usually determines the speed

I did know that, jeez went college when you were a baby lol

Acer V3-571G Intel Core i5 Processor, 8Gb RAM, 1Tb Hard Drive, 15.6 inch Laptop with Dedicated Graphics - Black -

Im torn between this one and the one above? Very tempted to go for this one, might go buy it tomorrow, so any feedback before then would be appreciated?

Would be helpful if you said the price of the said system to m8 ?

Acers £549, Sony £499. I'm looking in to the Acer one more.

I have an acer, its bloody amazing!

I have an Acer PC, nothing special really although its crappy Vista (Dell was just as bad but that was great XP).

I don't know about specs so ill leave that to experts

flapjack

As I said before, steer clear of Toshiba and have one and its pure cack!

I did some reading a while ago about increasing the speed of laptops and flapjack's SSD description is right (based upon my research) and I was going to invest in one.

Stick with Sony and just increase the screen size, deffo look into the SSD thing though.

Ok yeah I will look into the SSD, Im probably going to go for the Acer one bigger hard drive and larger RAM, also the one I have atm doesn't really have any super graphics so the Acer has dedicated graphics. Maybe buying a white laptops not the greatest of ideas too considering I smoke would turn yellow lol after a while.

and you wrote £450 for why ya eejit?????? Pfffft :s

£450? what you on about? My price range has increased, lol

do i need to say any more?????

That little piggy bank just got bigger lol