Laptop

[sonic youth]

vaio's have a tendency to blow up/catch fire/melt. dell laptops came recommended to me when i was looking.

BWB - my laptop was £150 cheaper, has a bigger screen and a slightly slower processor (1.73ghz). ash doesn't really need a machine with a 256mb graphics card either...

this is my laptop, was £470 from PC World *spit* - only downside is the onboard graphics now my desktop PC has died.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-560
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-581
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-024-SA&groupid=959&catid=954&subcat=

[Simon Pieman]

My Dell laptop is shite and I'm not talking spec wise. Don't buy from Dell.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Yeah but why do you think it's shite and how long have you had it? I only really had the choice of a Dell, Vaio or Macbook Pro because I needed 1920*1200 resolution, had heard bad stuff about Vaio's and they were way more expensive and the Macbook was even more overpriced so was a pretty easy choice.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NNB-560

This one's pretty good for the price, would probably be ideal, not sure how well Vista would run but you could always get XP instead. Vista is great if you have a quick pc but probably not worth it if you don't. I don't think he needs really good graphics either, just meant you can get a lot more for £700. If he was going to get a Dell, this one would probably be good enough. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/RBIredirect.aspx?rbi=GKiitGAbBa2SB+6V9bxpR1iJq0ljnDjVqzoNJ99egnoqsfSqsWpewzPh8khI9QppUAVhZYPavcoGvJwA4+RJsIlEAWlbMh0Cb4Y2SnkSiXvEN8vwSf9btlkqnoa5B86TqMy8ShuFabWNh1Piwb/xNRH0f4zL/b1Mrft5IqXeZ+jpD6g2+RulLxpPqpSMoBodl2algWecCfSv/DrKhTMPnA==

[Gazza's Fat Mate]

why don't you look into the subject you lazy gimp

[Simon Pieman]

I've had my Dell for years. Reason it's shite is not down to spec, because that would be silly slating it for that.

*It's poorly designed.
*It has cheap components.
*Replacement parts are ridiculously expensive in proportion to the initial cost.
*My battery died after 13 months.

I've no idea what they're like to use now but many people I know aren't happy with them.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Fair enough, yeah my housemate had an old one and it seemed pretty crap but I like the design of mine and components seem pretty good, it's an inspiron 1720, I don't like the design of the XPS ones much though.

[Samdy Gray]

Si's right. The build quality of Dell's are crap. That's how they afford to undercut everybody elses prices by 20% to 30%.

[Power to people]

HP are very reliable and last time I looked they done cash back offers as well.

I will have a second hand P4 laptop for sale in about a week, certainly good enough for most things.

[Simon Pieman]

If you're going to spend around a grand (not that you need to) look at www.rockdirect.com

[flammableBen]

If I can fix your old one can I have it?

[Simon Pieman]

I've already tried that too Ben  

[flammableBen]

yeah but you suck at fixing computers.

[Simon Pieman]

It was a dodgy power supply but Bushey's going to keep it for music and stuff.

[flammableBen]

lame

[Simon Pieman]

I know. Here's a question I will pose to you Ben - can your computer take DDR2 RAM?