Guide to Laptops

A budget laptop would make an ideal choice for students and would be a good starting point for average home users looking for an additional computer either for other family members or for easy use in different rooms.

If what you plan to do is use standard applications, send and receive email, store your private data and upload new programs, you should then be thinking about an affordable laptop with a smaller 14” screen, one of Mobile Athlon or Mobile Intel Celeron processors which are cheaper, a 40GB hard disk, 256MB of RAM, a CD-RW drive as well as an Ethernet port for high-speed network connection.

This sort of package is readily available at a couple of hundred pounds, though you’ll be sacrificing considerable portability as you save your quid!