# Suggest a good laptop for £1000 or under **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504 "2006-03-27T17:55:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![G111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ea924/32.png) [@G111](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/G111)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/21 "2006-03-30T08:14:42Z")
> [@kirupa](#): > > Whatever you do, try to make sure the screen you are getting supports UXGA. For doing productive work, 1600x1200 for standard and 1920x1200 for widescreen is so much nicer. Since you use VS05, you will definitely appreciate the extra screen real-estate for displaying more code (-: > > I’m only familiar with Dells, so I don’t know about the prices of other brands, but there are several Dells that support UXGA and fall under your price range. For example, I paid $800 (+$750 off coupon) for an Inspiron 6000 (PM 1.8GHz, 1GB Ram, ATI X300 128MB VRAM, and 1920x1200 UXGA screen) a year ago. > > :rambo: yeh K Man thats the biggest draw for me to Dell, those massive resoltuions and that awesome screen 🙂 I think the dell I am getting has like a 1900 + \* some other great resoltuion so thats really good 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![oessmartkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@oessmartkid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/oessmartkid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/22 "2006-04-05T02:06:56Z")
If you have 1700 USD then I would go with either the Dell Inspiron E1705 or E1505 based on the screen size, get one gig ram, ugrade to better screen, and get the nVidia card and it should come out to be under 1700, you can find dell coupons online by just typing dell and looking at the sponsor links at google (coupon mountain is good). I just got my Dell E1705 and it is amazing (it has 2 GB ram) really nice. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/23 "2006-04-05T02:16:21Z")
I would go for a Lenovo, too. They’re really nice, and very strong. It’s more difficult to vacuum the keys off of those. :lol: [whisper]Sadly enough, my dad vacuumed two keys off the IBM he gave me, when he still was using it.[/whisper] You can run Linux :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![G111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ea924/32.png) [@G111](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/G111)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/24 "2006-04-05T16:00:49Z")
up going for a suped up Dell 6400 with the UXGA screen 1.86GHz Intel Core Duo, 1GB Ram, 100GB HD, ATI something or other 128MB graphics…thats it I think…yeh thats it!! nice little laptop that will do me just fine and dandy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/25 "2006-04-07T00:43:08Z")
If those specs are standard then it’s a very good buy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Vexir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a183cd/32.png) [@Vexir](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Vexir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/26 "2006-04-09T04:29:44Z")
You can get a dual core dell for 1700, they have a 25% off all laptops right now. I just customized, $1750. im talking, 1.88 core duo, 256 radeon mobility, 1gig ram ---
**Author:** ![jakepeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@jakepeg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jakepeg)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/27 "2006-04-12T13:37:20Z")
One thing to watch with Dell UK is the after sales customer service is poo ---
**Author:** ![theflash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/theflash/32/1221_2.png) [@theflash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theflash)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504/28 "2006-04-13T08:36:57Z")
How about Toshiba, Satellite series ? Have you looked any ? [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/suggest-a-good-laptop-for-1000-or-under/183504.md?page=1)