There are so many to choose from when it comes to cheap laptops and seeing as we are about cheap laptops we want to give you the best of the best in very cheap laptop information and here is one that ticks all the boxes.

The Compaq C542EA laptop is very cheap at only £499.99 including VAT, the Compaq C542EA comes with a 15.4 inch Brightview Widescreen display and 60 GB Hard Drive plus an Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2060 1.6GHz and 533MHz FSB.

The C542EA is surprisingly a nice little laptop that runs very well, it has a 2MB Cache and 1GB RAM and also comes with a very good Super Multi DVD R/RW Drive. Seeing as everyone is talking about the superb Windows Vista how does the Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium that is installed as well sound and how about 128MB Intel 950 GMA Shared Graphics; it comes with the lot and at that price is quite shocking but true.

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