Which is the best laptop? (Under 400 quid)

[Noxus]

Like renee said you just need to prepare for your Vista experience. And most laptops now and days come standard with a 1GB of ram and now a Core 2 Duo processer inside it. So its PRETTY much the same if you had XP with .5GB ram and a weaker processor.

-MJ, dont judge a OS on visual prettiness, the look of it might be better and more futuristic, but the in the sense that its better because of the colors is not that way to go. i got my 4GB RAM for only 80$ (USD) and its fine and i plan on making my processor a bit better sometime in the summer.

but its unquestionable, no matter what you buy you have a 97% chance of getting Vista. So get it just because theres no real way out of it. and you have to install XP by yourself which can be risky if you dont know what your doing. But its been done countless times.
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[MicroJak]

I don't know what I'm doing . So I can't and won't.. unless I get really bad problems with it and have to switch to XP. Atm, It's too much of a risk for a non-computer wizkid like me, but thanks for your advice, it's really appreciated.


For your own interests, this is the computer I bought:

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?Description=UK_CL_Laptops&CatIds=21797,35750,21850&webid=394253&affixedcode=WW


We're having real problems with connecting to the internet on it however. It works fine on my XP, but the wireless thing is confusing. The laptop can detect the wireless router, however it doesn't want to connect to the internet trough the ADSL line.
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[Mighty]

your graphic card's shit! so don't expect to run any graphic programs or new games on the box.. but it'll run vista just fine.. good l'top for the price
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[RenéeAB]

www.virtualbox.org

This application is availible to run on windows, linux, mac os and allows you to run other operating systems from the "host os" , ex. I can install/run linux, win98se, win 2000, etc from within win xp
Is rather complicated though but really cool. I would recommend not trying to run the "higher" os as the "guest os" (ex. win vista FROM win xp).
I am also new at this (more of David's advice and work and could use some input from others trying it out.
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[linux666]

somebody said my name?
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