A popular broadband news and price comparison site vows that consumers can now get themselves a laptop in a new mobile broadband deal which works out cheaper than a cup of coffee in a high street café.

By allowing consumers to spread their payments over a prolonged period of time, mobile broadband laptop offers have enabled many people to buy portable computers affordably. Such offers have also allowed people to purchase higher-end laptops over the £500 mark which would normally have been too expensive.

The monthly cost of these mobile broadband deals have reduced quite significantly in 2009 and a new deal being offered by 3 has helped bring this down even further, with a cost of £22.50 per month for a deal offering 15GB of data downloads and an Acer Aspire A150b laptop, which compared to the stand-alone mobile broadband package at £15 per month is only an extra £7.50 to fork out which industry experts hail as being cheaper than a weekly coffee on your way to work.

An industry spokesperson said: “With cheap laptop deals proliferating by the hour, the days of a laptop being thought of as a luxury purchase are long gone. Combining the purchase of a laptop with a mobile broadband connection can offer astonishing value. A price point of £22.50 a month for a laptop and 15GB of mobile broadband means that even in these troubled times, many people can afford to own a great laptop simply by making some small sacrifices. 3’s deal is a perfect offer for students or for anyone who wants to spread the cost of a laptop purchase.”

The monthly cost to users has been further reduced with the data usage allowance of 15GB which, according to experts who have found that most mobile broadband users only download 1.2GB of data each month on average, means that users over-stepping their download limit is now a rare occurrence.

Mobile broadband currently covers a large majority of the UK at speeds of over 7 Mbps. Average speeds vary depending on location, so it’s advisable to check broadband coverage in your area before signing up to any mobile broadband deal, contract or otherwise.