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Title: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: Del Boy on 28 November 2006, 20:33:34
Well guys work last week gave me a choice for a work laptop they said anyone u want so i said this 1 will do :) http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=358355
And they've ordered it for me :o i love my boss ;D
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: STMO123 on 28 November 2006, 21:06:28
Kinnell Liam! What is your job?
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: Del Boy on 28 November 2006, 21:10:10
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Kinnell Liam! What is your job?

Funnily enough i work in an I.T office  :)
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: Del Boy on 28 November 2006, 21:10:52
1 Prob with it it's an HP :-/
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: TheBoy on 28 November 2006, 21:11:30
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1 Prob with it it's an HP :-/
Its crap then (and I haven't even looked at link)
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: Del Boy on 28 November 2006, 21:12:53
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1 Prob with it it's an HP :-/
Its crap then (and I haven't even looked at link)

Spec of it isn't  :)
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Post by: TheBoy on 28 November 2006, 21:13:51
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1 Prob with it it's an HP :-/
Its crap then (and I haven't even looked at link)

Spec of it isn't  :)
Its HP. There will be something wrong with it....
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Post by: theolodian on 28 November 2006, 23:21:36
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1 Prob with it it's an HP :-/
Its crap then (and I haven't even looked at link)

Spec of it isn't  :)
Its HP. There will be something wrong with it....
I agree, and other than that it takes two people to carry it!

My HP laptop worked great, until just before it died.  ::)
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: MikeDundee on 29 November 2006, 06:36:42
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Well guys work last week gave me a choice for a work laptop they said anyone u want so i said this 1 will do :) http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=358355
And they've ordered it for me :o i love my boss ;D

Cancel the order and get a Toshiba laptop :y
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 29 November 2006, 07:14:30
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Well guys work last week gave me a choice for a work laptop they said anyone u want so i said this 1 will do :) http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=358355
And they've ordered it for me :o i love my boss ;D

Cancel the order and get a Toshiba laptop :y

Naaah......get a Dell.....guaranteed to survive getting soaked in orange juice and red wine  :y
(i'll test it with coffee next time to see what happens  ;D )
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 29 November 2006, 09:17:05
My last company laptop was a Dell and it was bloody awful.....batteries died every 14 months....keyboard went iffy every 18 months, touch pad had a habit of dragging the mouse to the top left corner.....

Got an IBM now and although the build quality is better.....its dam slow....
Title: Re: Well i've got a good laptop but work !
Post by: STMO123 on 29 November 2006, 09:35:57
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batteries died every 14 months....keyboard went iffy every 18 months.

I didn't think people kept them that long these days. In the wifes school they seem to be getting new ones every five minutes :-/

EDIT: But then again, thats public money, isn't it?
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Post by: TheBoy on 29 November 2006, 10:21:27
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My last company laptop was a Dell and it was bloody awful.....batteries died every 14 months....keyboard went iffy every 18 months, touch pad had a habit of dragging the mouse to the top left corner.....

Got an IBM now and although the build quality is better.....its dam slow....
Mark, your battery problem usually happens if it spends most of its time plugged in to mains...   ...and who are Dell's primary battery supplier? Oh yes, that crap outfit that makes crap stuff, beginning with S  >:(

Touchpads shouldn't drift, touchsticks do though.  I prefer touchsticks - touchpads are not as productive.

Stinkpads are well made, but as you've discovered, tend to be far from cutting edge spec....
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Post by: theolodian on 29 November 2006, 11:27:54
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My last company laptop was a Dell and it was bloody awful.....batteries died every 14 months....keyboard went iffy every 18 months, touch pad had a habit of dragging the mouse to the top left corner.....

Got an IBM now and although the build quality is better.....its dam slow....
Mark, your battery problem usually happens if it spends most of its time plugged in to mains...   ...and who are Dell's primary battery supplier? Oh yes, that crap outfit that makes crap stuff, beginning with S  >:(

Touchpads shouldn't drift, touchsticks do though.  I prefer touchsticks - touchpads are not as productive.

Stinkpads are well made, but as you've discovered, tend to be far from cutting edge spec....
I'm pretty happy with this stinkpad I borrowed.  Laptops aren't for power IMO.  Still trying to figure out the IBM sw, inlcuding why it has so much trouble with DHCP with 'IBM Access Connections'.  OK, so I'm not thrilled w/ it, but much better than my HP  >:(
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Post by: Auto Addict on 29 November 2006, 11:38:27
My Dell Latitude still has it's original battery, about 7/8 years old now.

Highley recommend Dell.
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Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 29 November 2006, 11:46:38
Mine used to have probably a 30:70 split of battery/mains use.......

It was by far the worst laptop I have had (a view echoed by many others at work who had the same)

Did I mention the IBM is slow......coz its slow