New Teacher Laptops - Best Buy for under £700

[u8dmtm]

Every teacher in the school has a laptop, some of the older ones now need replacing. They are a mix of Toshiba and RM, the RM machines are generally pretty good but the Toshibas have been troublesome.

 

So I'm looking for a reliable, good spec laptop, robust enough for teacher use and with 3 year warranty for under £700. What's out there?

[mrforgetful]

Ergo? They do a nice onsite 3 year warranty.

[Geoff]

Using Dell Lattitude D510's here under our LEAs Laptops for Teachers scheme. Unexciting machines, but no major problems.

[Norphy]

Check out EuroPC. They do a good line of refurbished Dell Latitude laptops with full 3 year Dell warranties. They are our primary source of Dell stuff atm.

[k-strider]

We have some Ergo Microlite 3s and 411s they are nice and small, and robust. i would defiantly recommend looking at those..

 

We also like the HP Business Notebooks, like the NX6310 (can get a Core2Duo with 1GB) for less than 700 or the NX6325 have AMDX2s in

[plexer]

I've just bought HP NX6325's:

 

http://www.inmac.co.uk/catalogue/item/HPN0084

£339 each.

Then you could buy the 3yr HP cover for an additional:

£164.18

 

Total: £503.18

 

Ben

[djm968]

I have just commissioned 50 DELL Latitude D520's for teachers at one of my client sites. No issues with these at all (except one damaged by a student using the it as a foot rest!) all ghosted fine and the Intel pro wireless implementation looks solid.

[u8dmtm]

Every teacher in the school has a laptop, some of the older ones now need replacing. They are a mix of Toshiba and RM, the RM machines are generally pretty good but the Toshibas have been troublesome.

 

So I'm looking for a reliable, good spec laptop, robust enough for teacher use and with 3 year warranty for under £700. What's out there?

[bossman]

try here:

http://www.shopacer.co.uk/sess/utn;jsessionid=1545476a5414629/shopdata/0130_Notebooks/0033_Aspire/0140_Aspire+5630/product_overview.shopscript

i have found the acers what we have in school very good way beyond the toshiba's that some of the teachers have.

 

obviously you don't have to buy from here but this is what i would be looking at. Good luck

[Guest]

Shop about at DELL and you should be able to pick up the following for a shade under £700.00

 

Latitude D520

 

XP PRO

 

Intel® Core Duo™ T2400

 

15.0" XGA Display

 

1GB 533MHz DDR2 Memory

 

60GB serial ATA HDD 5400RPM HDD

 

8 X DVD+/-RW Drive

 

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g

 

3Y NBD Warrenty

[Geoff]

deja vu

[MkII]

HP NX6325 @ £335 is pretty nice

 

Semperon 3500+

512/60gb

DVD+/- RW dual layer

802.11b/g

15"

XPPro

3yr Warranty

 

Sorry Ben - didn't see your post - how come your's didn't include the 3yr warranty! - i've seen the deal lots of places - this price was SCC

[kxv2020]

We also have Dell Latitude D520 with 3yrs Warranty!

 

There working with no problems!!

[tosca925]

Dell everytime.

[plexer]

@Mark: hmm seems like a good deal then we got ours from Insight under the catalyst framework.

 

Ben

[MkII]

Yeah - we claimed Catalyst = free delivery

[john]

The HPs already mentioned are ace, and a great offer, I love them and that design of them seems very good and reliable, much better than the older designed NX9005 / 9010's.

[thom]

I know these are acers but it is a really great spec

Acer TravelMate 4233WLMi - Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66 GHz - 15.4" TFT

http://www.misco.co.uk/productinformation/~Q90667~WW~/ACER%20TM4233WLMi%20%2F%2015.4%20WXGA%20%2F%20Centrino%202%20Duo%20T5500.htm

1 year warranty

Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz ( Dual-Core )

Hard Drive: 120 GB

RAM: 1 GB (installed)

Only £629.99 ex VAT

[u8dmtm]

Just in case anyone was wondering what I went for in the end it was:

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V8210

- Intel Core Duo 1.66

- 80GB HDD

- DVD Combo

- 15.4TFT widescreen

- 5 Hour Battery

- XP Pro

- 4 Year CandR Warranty

 

From Tracline, £ 529.00