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« 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. 
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« Reply #1 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?
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2007, 08:11:35 PM »
£479 for a back up?
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2007, 08:13:49 PM »
Quote from: Bongo on October 06, 2007, 08:11:35 PM
£479 for a back up?

What do you think of the PC? (not my money management Smiley )
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« Reply #4 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 .   
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« Reply #5 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
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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2007, 08:34:41 PM »
Quote from: 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

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.
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« Reply #7 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.
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« Reply #8 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...
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2007, 09:53:26 PM »
That's twice I've done that recently....
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« Reply #10 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!!
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« Reply #11 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.

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« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2007, 12:32:06 AM »
Quote from: 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!!

Really?
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« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2007, 09:27:39 AM »
Quote from: Bongo on October 07, 2007, 12:32:06 AM
Quote from: 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!!

Really?

It would have cost a few grand then.
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« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2007, 11:55:16 AM »
So do I buy it or not???
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