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Title: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: kinboshi on October 05, 2007, 11:28:52 AM http://www.aldi.co.uk/sunday_special_buys/sunday_special_buys_pid_58281.html
Just in case anyone is in the market for one. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Robert HM on October 06, 2007, 08:08:03 PM Saw this in the press yesterday. Like it lots as a back up laptop. Only issue is the dreaded Vista.
What do others think? Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Bongo on October 06, 2007, 08:11:35 PM £479 for a back up?
Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Robert HM on October 06, 2007, 08:13:49 PM £479 for a back up? What do you think of the PC? (not my money management :) ) Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Sark79 on October 06, 2007, 08:25:57 PM I got a Toshiba from laptops direct. It is nothing fancy, but it allows me to lose money every day on pokerstars, get killed at backgammon on Ladbrokes, watch Prison break, watch youtube, read blonde, play CD'S/DVD, surf the net, read wikipedia and BBC News, and do everything I require. It was about £300 .
Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: boldie on October 06, 2007, 08:31:15 PM 479 for a backup indeed.. you can buy a very decent backup for MUCH less...479 for a backup is for people with too much dosh to spend
Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Bongo on October 06, 2007, 08:34:41 PM 479 for a backup indeed.. you can buy a very decent backup for MUCH less...479 for a backup is for people with too much dosh to spend That's what I meant! Looks decent enough, think you'll have a hard time finding a laptop without vista at the minute although that might change now MS are keeping XP around a little longer. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: kinboshi on October 06, 2007, 09:09:31 PM 2GB of RAM, a large hard drive, and decent processor. I think it's a decent spec, and I think you'd be fairly hard-pushed to find a similarly specced laptop for that price.
Well, that's what I thought when I saw it and why I asked if it was a good price. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: amcgrath1uk on October 06, 2007, 09:51:36 PM WOW... TWO MEG OF RAM... takes me back oooo 15 years
If it was 2 Gb however... Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: kinboshi on October 06, 2007, 09:53:26 PM That's twice I've done that recently.... ;ashamed;
Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: ifm on October 06, 2007, 11:53:39 PM my lappy that is 4 years old, with a busted screen and a temperamental dvd drive is more powerful than that!!
Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Ecosse on October 07, 2007, 12:31:14 AM Medion laptops are fine, until you need to call support - it's quite disastrous. Had to replace my neice's hard disk and the twunts would not send me replacement XP media (which they store on a partition on the hard disk). Hard disk goes belly up outwith warrany- your snookered really, without resorting to 3rd party help. As for Vista, flatten the laptop and install XP from any media and use the registration key from your existing pc. Dougie. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Bongo on October 07, 2007, 12:32:06 AM my lappy that is 4 years old, with a busted screen and a temperamental dvd drive is more powerful than that!! Really? Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: kinboshi on October 07, 2007, 09:27:39 AM my lappy that is 4 years old, with a busted screen and a temperamental dvd drive is more powerful than that!! Really? It would have cost a few grand then. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: thediceman on October 07, 2007, 11:55:16 AM So do I buy it or not???
Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: Ecosse on October 07, 2007, 01:14:30 PM So do I buy it or not??? Go for it, if it was me though I'd be putting windows XP on it. Your getting a good spec for the price. Dougie. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: ifm on October 07, 2007, 10:27:01 PM my lappy that is 4 years old, with a busted screen and a temperamental dvd drive is more powerful than that!! Really? It would have cost a few grand then. Actually i don't know how it compares to a dualcore processor, mine is a pentium4 2.8ghz. Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: amcgrath1uk on October 07, 2007, 10:31:44 PM The new processers in laptops are far more advanced than P4's... and dont have the tendency to overheat like the P4s did in laptops.
Mine for example is a 2Gz AMD Turion 64 x 2... which is pretty damn good. What I find is people get confused between Dual Core ( PC processors) and Core Duo ( laptop processors) Title: Re: Decent cheap laptop? Post by: RichEO on October 07, 2007, 10:41:08 PM my lappy that is 4 years old, with a busted screen and a temperamental dvd drive is more powerful than that!! More powerful in that it uses more electricity, likely. More powerful as in higher benchmarks / greater performacne, very unlikely.That is a decent spec. It is much better than the usual £300-£450 deals. Beats a lot of £600+ laptops. Only a 1280x800 resolution screen though. Some people may want larger, or may want to add an external monitor to it. |