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tl:dr; this will be a thread for laptop deals to recommend to other staff for personal use. Post good deals when you find them! In full: people often ask us what's a good laptop to buy, and we're happy to recommend so that they don't end up getting fleeced by a shop floor salesman nor end up with something chronically underpowered because it was the cheapest option. What's around/on offer/good value changes almost weekly, though, so I thought we could crowdsource this work a little bit - we can't be the only ones who do this, so there must be times when we can help each other out. My hope is that everytime you need to recommend a laptop to someone, you can check this thread (and mayhap, in time, it can be stickied); if someone has posted something in the last week, result! You've just saved half an hour of research and can send a recommendation straight over. If there's nothing recent, when you've done the shopping around you'd do anyway, you can post a link up here and hopefully save someone else the time. This isn't about the best laptop to use in school - it's about having an answer when people say "my son is going to University, what would be a good laptop for him to take?" Any laptop posted here should be available Joe Bloggs to buy on his credit card: no education specific models, no invoice only suppliers. I don't mind if suppliers post in here so long as they are happy for people to phone them and make personal purchases, and if it is actually a good deal, in line with previous offerings. In general, when we recommend a laptop, it's something that only has to run Office & Chrome but needs to last a few years. We look for something with an i3 or i5 in it (the latter can be good deals sometimes), 4GB+ of RAM and from a decent make - Lenovo and Asus get our approval for being fairly sturdy as consumer laptops go, you may have your own preferences. The ideal price point is around £300, depending on offers, and we usually recommend a 256GB Crucial MX100 SSD as well and copy the laptop image over for people (for the price of beer, ofc). Hopefully this grows to be a useful thread for curated laptop deals; I reckon we end up looking around every 4-6 weeks so even if no-one else posts*, maybe someone else can make use of what we turn up *but please do

http://us.acer.com/acer/wr-resource/526096999/upload/E0Entity3/1/VT_M265.jpg Hey Guys A Bit Of A Bargain For You As Shown Below, £345.00 Available for personal purchase if required, Acer Veriton M265 Midi Tower PC Pentium Dual Core E5300 2.6 Ghz 2 GB DDR2 Memory 320GB Hard Drive DVD-RW Gigabit Lan Intel GMA 3100 Display Adapater Microsoft Office 2007 60 Day Trial Windows Vista Business And Windows XP Pro Media Included 3 Years Next Business Day Acer Warranty A superb middle of the road spec machine and at a superb price I'm sure you will agree.

...Morning all! Once again I bring news of excellent bargains and shiny hardware! I've got 20 Lenovo M58 Desktops going at £200 each Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16GHz 8GB DDR3 PC3-8500 RAM @ 1066MHz 250GB SATA HDD DVD R/RW/DL Optical Drive Microsoft Windows 7 Pro OA License New Keyboard & Optical Mouse 2 Years RTB Warranty (3 year optional) Oh and I can pop a Radeon HD5450 1GB Graphics Card (VGA, D-DVI, HDMI) in there for just £30 also! Want more RAM? I can make it 16GB for just £55! As always you can get in touch with me in the usual ways. Meanwhile stay tuned for more from us on what John is already calling "Project Touch"... Dave @ Ict-Direct Tel: 01254 820980 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @ict_Direct

This month we're showing off the benefits of those 'All in One' combos that can help you eke out that last little bit of space in a cramped IT Suite Those of you on our mailing list may have already taken a look, but for those of you who arent (PM me if you'd like me to send you the occasional email) take a look at a few of these beauties! This is just a selection, but should give you a great idea of what we can offer you. In other IT Sales related news: I've got a bunch of brilliant Lenovo M82 SFF Desktops coming in next week. Just £300 each!! 3rd Gen Quad core i5 3.33GHz 4GB RAM 250GB HDD DVD R/RW Win 7 Pro COA New Keyboard & Mouse 2 Years RTB as Standard Not only that but you could take advantage of our 240Gb Enterprise class SATA3 SSD drives for just an additional £75 (thats just 31p for every lightning-fast gigabyte)!! AND if you place an order this month I'll make sure you get a KitKat Chunky or two Good eh?

This is genuinely the greatest bargain ever seen in PC gaming. The Humble Indie Bundle V (pay what you want and help charity) For a pay what you want, you get Psychonauts (Tim Schafer is a genius, the best level themes you will ever see), Amnesia (reputedly the scariest game in a long time, I don't know, I'll never be brave enough to play it), Limbo (dripping in atmosphere), Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP (not played yet but supposedly very excellent indeed) and, if you pay over the average, you get Bastion, which was probably my favourite game of last year. And you get the soundtracks, and certainly Bastion's is incredible. And they normally add extras later on. And it's all DRM free. And everything is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. And you can donate a portion to charity. Honestly, if you are so broke you think you can't afford this while it's on, forfeit food for a day to afford it. Every single one of these games is brilliant.