Best Place To Buy a Laptop?
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yello said:
Plenty of suckers find their way to Currys & Comet yello...
I am a Dell convert.
Silent fan, good spec - used at work too. Their delivery is rapid in my experience and backup good.
Willow said:
This is correct PCworld and similar stores have a caus in their guarantee that they have 28 days to invetigate any problems then they at on it aftr that.... can b 2months beforeou geta new laptp if yours breaks.
Dabs are good and you can get some good deals, but you cant go far wrong with Dell. for that money you sould be able to get a reasonble 17" screen and you may even be able to upgrade to their next day warranty service! just be carefull you dont get too greedy when choosing the spec or you will soon blow the budget.
Mr Pig
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- North Lanarkshire
Wigsie said:
My mother bought a entry-level laptop from Dell a couple of years ago. She added a few options, like a bigger screen and more ram etc I think, I can't remember exactly. Anyway, just after this we bought our son one and we found that by going for the next range up you got a better laptop for the same money!
Dell stuff is typically very good value but do watch those options. Try lots of different models, menus etc to be sure you get the best deal. Oh, and don't buy them over the phone. The pushy sales people will drive you mad!
ACS
Legendary Member
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- Just below the snow line
As I have already indicated I purchase IT as apart of my job. We predominately use HP laptops for business use and find them to be very reliable. We use Win XP Pro as a standard OS, even if it has Vista installed we downgrade so our account holders only have to be familiar with just 1 operating system. As a matter of course we double the amount of RAM because M$ always understate the hardware requirements for their operating systems.
If you are just going to be surfing the web, word processing etc, I would suggest you look over the business area of EBuyer and factor in additional RAM. If you want to play processor / RAM / graphic intensive games buy a console.
On a personal level I would be looking at this HP 6730S Core 2 Duo T5870 2.0GHz, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 15.4" TFT, DVD±RW, Vista Business with a 2gb ram upgrade from Crucial UK
Hope this helps
Andy
If you are just going to be surfing the web, word processing etc, I would suggest you look over the business area of EBuyer and factor in additional RAM. If you want to play processor / RAM / graphic intensive games buy a console.
On a personal level I would be looking at this HP 6730S Core 2 Duo T5870 2.0GHz, 160GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 15.4" TFT, DVD±RW, Vista Business with a 2gb ram upgrade from Crucial UK
Hope this helps
Andy
Mr Pig
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satans budgie said:
How does that work? The laptop we just bought, arrived yesterday, is an HP business one and the blurb said it had Vista Business with XP pre-installed. I assumed you would be given the choice of which to use when setting the laptop up or something like that, but no. In fact it came with Vista Home Basic!
ACS
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Mr Pig said:
The laptops / PC we use form part of a business network and we use XP Pro because it has all the network facilities we need preinstalled.
For home use it is not as important I suggest that when setting up your new laptop accept the defaults and see how you get on. Vista has its place but it does have a tendency to be memory and processor hungry. It looks very pretty but IMO the differences, below the surface are not that different to XP Pro. It’s a matter of personal choice. Microsoft intend to keep supporting XP until at least 2012 and as most new ‘netbooks’ are designed to work on XP I can see support for this OS being extended beyond this date.
derall
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- Home Counties
satans budgie said:
I'm running XP in work, but after my home laptop blew up a couple of months ago I had to make the change to Vista. After two months I've just about got it running acceptably. All the fancy Aero prettiness is switched off and it now looks and behaves more like an XP system. Out of the box it was using just over 1Gb for the OS; I've now got it down to about 780Mb. I still have a long list of processes (via Lifehacker) that I have to try shutting down to reduce the footprint further, but that can wait until I have more time...
Night Train
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- Greater Manchester
I have vista and have also switched off everything unecessary and made it look more like windows classic. The preloaded Google sidebar was using something like 60% of the processor just to run itself and keep updated.
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/p...onb_1710?c=uk&l=en&s=bsd&cs=ukbsdt1&~lt=popup
what do we think of the Dell Vostro 1710?
what do we think of the Dell Vostro 1710?
dellzeqq said:
Good call, I'd looked at Dell but missed this.
After all my searching(thanks for everyone's advice
) I seem to be drawn back to my original choice of Dell because of the service back up(me being an IT mong and all that, it's well worth considering).stephec said:
This, Steve is a great LT..
http://direct.asda.com/Acer-Laptop-...M-and-Vista-Premium/000582895,default,pd.html
Gem of a deal - if you can find it in an Asda !!!!!
Get at least 3gb RAM (vistas graphic madness) and as much Memory as possible/can get ! + something over 2GHZ for the H.DRIVE speed.
