Mine is on the way out and just wondering if anyone can recommend any?

I'm after a built in Web cam and my top end budget is £700, do any come with Word and Excel [need this for work as standard?

Finally i hear people can extract passwords and other sensitive information to defraud you when laptops are thrown away, how do i clear said information especially as i do most of my banking and shopping online?

PS, not interested in Apple products

Cheers in advance HY

Are you after any specific type of hard drive? And what size RAM and Hard drive do you want?

I'm not too techi so basically the best i can get for 700 notes with a web cam and excel already installed.

You can choose practically anything for that and it sounds like you don't want to do anything more strenuous than business like work, so anything under £700 would be fine; in fact if that's all you want you don't really need to spend that much.

You won't find many laptops with Office (Excel and Word on) as standard though, not the full versions anyway, most do have the starter versions (which have ads on!). I do know you get OEM versions of office if you were to buy a Dell it's about £100 extra (last I looked) and their laptops are a little pricier (and not the greatest quality but certainly not the worst!) but you can easily get one that would be good for you from them with Office for less than £700.

Does it HAVE to be Microsoft excel? Many different softwares out and about as good.
Open Office?

Nothing wrong with Open Office and it's free.

Yes i use excel at work, what i don't finish at work i email to my laptop and finish at home.

You could still do that with Open Office it's capable of reading Office formats, however some formatting (in Word) can go awry sometimes if you do.

I have in the past emailed what i thought was fairly basic stuff to find it's not compatible with my laptop and mean't staying in work longer to finish stuff off, which i hate, especially as sometimes i want to beat rush hour traffic which in London is a massive pain in the backside and can add an extra 45 mins on a journey.

Probably worth spending the extra in that case.

If you know a student in any way you can get it cheap from software4students most of the time (£50ish as opposed to £180ish).

Your best bet is Dell outlet, they have some great spec laptops for a lot less than they cost new. Most are customer returns that in most cases are still brand new, its where a customer has had a change of mind or Dell have sent them the wrong spec and they have been returned etc. Its just by law you can't then sell them as brand new once they have been opened and returned. outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/Inve ... l=en&s=dfh

Your best bet is Dell outlet, they have some great spec laptops for a lot less than they cost new. Most are customer returns that in most cases are still brand new, its where a customer has had a change of mind or Dell have sent them the wrong spec and they have been returned etc. Its just by law you can't then sell them as brand new once they have been opened and returned. outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/Inve ... l=en&s=dfh

Ive sworn by HP laptops for years (currently using a g61) they are bullet proof and wont let you down