Laptop purchase advice

[Sebastian]

Following the sudden Death of my lappy i'm in the market now for a new one for the missus.
dont want anything to fancy or supersmart , just want a laptop that does it's job , has a good battery life and fly's on the www .

what u people use ?

[Muad_dib77]

I have an old dell D-series..works a treat after a mem upgrade to 2gb...have a Lenovo t42 from work..not very fast but sturdy as f.ck...I've attempted to murder it a couple of times be the damn thing wont die...

[gfalls]

Toshiba would be the benchmark. It really dosen't matter what kind you get, as the battery will be standard. The trick is to buy a one with more cells in it. My MSI Wind has now got a 9 cell battery as opposed to the standard 3 cell. I get about 8 hours out of it. surfing and playing solitare..

[Dragonheart]

8 hours! Holy crap thats pretty impressive! Where do you get one of them and roughly what cost are they?

[CJ]

Where do you get one of them and roughly what cost are they?

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Postage might be expensive though.

Tosh are a good consumer brand, I used to buy them about 10 years ago for business purposes but have since moved to Lenovo (very robust) and Dell (not so robust but cheap and effective).

CJ

[gfalls]

I got the extra battery on ebay. Worked out about €35 delivered. The standard battery lasts about 2 hours.

[Sebastian]

found a DELL with good spec and 6cell battery . then again found a compaq roughly same price but lower spec ....