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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: lee4206 on 19 November 2007, 22:14:11
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Im after a new laptop for a christmas pressent for someone and found this http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=425397&cm_sp=FeatureEnd-_-Laptops-_-position1 does anyone know if its any good or know of a better one for around the same price
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depends entirely what they want to use it for. For basic internet surfing/email and office type stuff, that will be fine.
Games/video editing etc etc, forget it.
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Is this better than the one above?
http://www.buyit247.com/acatalog/Pre-Order_Special.html
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depends entirely what they want to use it for. For basic internet surfing/email and office type stuff, that will be fine.
Games/video editing etc etc, forget it.
Thanks
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This place is only up the road from me less than a mile, so I am thinkin of going up and getting one.
My sister had a Laptop from there about 3-4 weeks ago and its great, it wasn't the one I have posted but the one for £250. :y
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Is this one a good deal guys as I am thinking of going up and getting one?
Only use the internet for coming on here, flea bay and Our Bank, so will it be good enough, fast enough whatever?
Cheers
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Looks reasonable.....
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There are plenty of reasonable 15 inchers out there. The problem is finding something that you can carry. The missus started with an HP 14 inch laptop b/c it was cheaper, ended up buying a new Dell 13 inch laptop with the smallest battery option lately, but she did last 2 years on the HP.
At least the 15's come with XP!
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There are plenty of reasonable 15 inchers out there. The problem is finding something that you can carry. The missus started with an HP 14 inch laptop b/c it was cheaper, ended up buying a new Dell 13 inch laptop with the smallest battery option lately, but she did last 2 years on the HP.
At least the 15's come with XP!
As long as it doesn't come with OS X - that has taken one hell of a hiding on the CERT lists this week, like about 20 critical and medium security flaws announced this week (as opposed to 1 for all Windows platforms) :P
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There are plenty of reasonable 15 inchers out there. The problem is finding something that you can carry. The missus started with an HP 14 inch laptop b/c it was cheaper, ended up buying a new Dell 13 inch laptop with the smallest battery option lately, but she did last 2 years on the HP.
At least the 15's come with XP!
As long as it doesn't come with OS X - that has taken one hell of a hiding on the CERT lists this week, like about 20 critical and medium security flaws announced this week (as opposed to 1 for all Windows platforms) :P
The beauty of a Mac isn't OSX, it's the built in support for multi-boot including XP.
And you will notice that I didn't bring up macs . . . ::) ;D
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This place is only up the road from me less than a mile, so I am thinkin of going up and getting one.
My sister had a Laptop from there about 3-4 weeks ago and its great, it wasn't the one I have posted but the one for £250. :y
My sister works for PC World - so I'm sorry but she'd be no help to you :P
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There are plenty of reasonable 15 inchers out there. The problem is finding something that you can carry. The missus started with an HP 14 inch laptop b/c it was cheaper, ended up buying a new Dell 13 inch laptop with the smallest battery option lately, but she did last 2 years on the HP.
At least the 15's come with XP!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I know.
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There are plenty of reasonable 15 inchers out there. The problem is finding something that you can carry. The missus started with an HP 14 inch laptop b/c it was cheaper, ended up buying a new Dell 13 inch laptop with the smallest battery option lately, but she did last 2 years on the HP.
At least the 15's come with XP!
As long as it doesn't come with OS X - that has taken one hell of a hiding on the CERT lists this week, like about 20 critical and medium security flaws announced this week (as opposed to 1 for all Windows platforms) :P
The beauty of a Mac isn't OSX, it's the built in support for multi-boot including XP.
And you will notice that I didn't bring up macs . . . ::) ;D
Probably, like all "my mac is so secure" peeps, keeping a low profile this week ;)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB07-323.html
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Yes the Acer does look nice.
Have a look also at this one:
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=286494
HP are very shy about this model range (too cheap for HP-branded hardware...), but it is a very nice unit, I bought a couple myself... it is a little more expensive than the Acer, but it's an HP and it also has a better processor i.e. CoreDuo not Celeron.
But as said, for the price the Acer is not bad either.
HTH.
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Yes the Acer does look nice.
Have a look also at this one:
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=286494
HP are very shy about this model range (too cheap for HP-branded hardware...), but it is a very nice unit, I bought a couple myself... it is a little more expensive than the Acer, but it's an HP and it also has a better processor i.e. CoreDuo not Celeron.
But as said, for the price the Acer is not bad either.
HTH.
Or cheaper from Dabs ;)
I only know this, as I've been doing some pricing experiements...
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There are plenty of reasonable 15 inchers out there. The problem is finding something that you can carry. The missus started with an HP 14 inch laptop b/c it was cheaper, ended up buying a new Dell 13 inch laptop with the smallest battery option lately, but she did last 2 years on the HP.
At least the 15's come with XP!
As long as it doesn't come with OS X - that has taken one hell of a hiding on the CERT lists this week, like about 20 critical and medium security flaws announced this week (as opposed to 1 for all Windows platforms) :P
The beauty of a Mac isn't OSX, it's the built in support for multi-boot including XP.
And you will notice that I didn't bring up macs . . . ::) ;D
Probably, like all "my mac is so secure" peeps, keeping a low profile this week ;)
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB07-323.html
I don't really care how secure it is, I don't do the risky stuff. 99% of my problems are with the OS, and if something happens on a Mac while I'm in a rush I can simply reboot to another OS, do what I need to do, and sort the problem out later. It's like having several redundant computers, without having to pay for them - or carry them around in the case of a laptop.
If I could buy a Dell 13" laptop and it was already set up to install/boot XP, Vista and Linux then that would be fine.
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Thanks for the response all. I would like to get a dual core but im looking for something with a long battery life and at upto 3 hours the acer seems to be best but i am dubious as i dont know of many laptops that last over 1 1/2 hours any thoughts on this???
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I'm looking at replacing my trusty old Tosh, which is looking poorly now :'(
This looks tempting - real Core 2 Duo by looks of things, and £389...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133698/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended
Shame about the make ::)
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I'm looking at replacing my trusty old Tosh, which is looking poorly now :'(
This looks tempting - real Core 2 Duo by looks of things, and £389...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133698/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended
Shame about the make ::)
looking in the configuration its Ok..Only vga card is weak..for sysadmins its adequate I think..
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I'm looking at replacing my trusty old Tosh, which is looking poorly now :'(
This looks tempting - real Core 2 Duo by looks of things, and £389...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133698/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended
Shame about the make ::)
looking in the configuration its Ok..Only vga card is weak..for sysadmins its adequate I think..
Pretty much all laptops use integrated chipset graphics, certainly at this end of the market. GMA X3100 is not bad for integrated - better than GMA 950 which most come with. If you're gonna play games, its next to useless though...
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My works laptop is an HP nc6400 (1.7 Core Duo, 1G ram, 80Gb HDD), that would be more than enough for my needs, so 1.6 Core 2 Duo should be more than enough...
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I'm looking at replacing my trusty old Tosh, which is looking poorly now :'(
This looks tempting - real Core 2 Duo by looks of things, and £389...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133698/show_product_specifications?spectype=extended
Shame about the make ::)
looking in the configuration its Ok..Only vga card is weak..for sysadmins its adequate I think..
Pretty much all laptops use integrated chipset graphics, certainly at this end of the market. GMA X3100 is not bad for integrated - better than GMA 950 which most come with. If you're gonna play games, its next to useless though...
yep..but I dont think you will prefer to play a game with laptop, sure you will prefer a PC ..I myself very rare I use laptops..Keyboard is small for my hands..For me big hands big PC ::)