anyone clued up on current Laptop deals

[Guy]

looking for a new laptop.. ideally as cheap as possible..

considering one of these as it seems to fit my needs.. i dont use the computer for games.. i do have a digital camcorder so need room for quite large video files while capturing and editing

anyone know of any better deals on the go for similar spec.

also whats everyones opinions on ACER products?

 

[Griff]

Speak to Aaron..

 

[Guy]

already emailed him asking him the Q i wanted to know..
if i go for the above i'll be buying it off him,

thing is hes the seller of it so hes going to be biased.. wondered if anyone knew of any better deals elsewhere on similar spec.. cant beat a bit of shopping around.

 

[Griff]

I'm not clued up on laptops so I can't really comment but all I can say is Aaron's been upfront and honest with me in the past and one of my mates had great service when he purchased a laptop from him/solaris.

 

[Tiger]

i think you could get a better laptop for that kinda money, better in performance and build quality, that one looks a bit snide tbh

 

[M1TCH]

seems like a good deal to me, not sure on the quality of other laptops really as I'm new to them. But I've just bought a Dell Inspiron 9300, I've used my friends Inspiron 6000 and was very impressed with it and had the urge to get one ever since. Finally got pissed off with sharing the family pc so did.
Heres the Dell notebook range

I went for the 9300 mainly because its bigger and came with double ram(1024mb) free, free printer (now on ebay), I went over to pc world to see what they had, and they stock about 20 or so laptops there and 2 of them had a 17" screen so knew I was gonna be getting something a bit different to most of the notebooks out there, out of the 2 they had they were both toshiba and over 1K, they were also a 1kg heavier and not that special looking (this one is a nice silver colour) I payed £839 and added bluetooth for another £20.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

That is a good laptop for the money, laptops with a 1Gb of RAM nowdays are more than that. Not sure about the processor tbh but the speed seems fairly quick really. 80Gb hard drive will be about the highest (you can get slightly more) that you can get.

As far as Acers go there good laptops too, my dad got one a few months back and hasn't had any problems with it.

 

[beatjunkie]

i bought a dell the other month, inspirion 6000, and its ace!!highly recommend themcame delivered on exactly the day they said 2 weeks before!!!i got mine for £700 intel centrino 1.7 processor, 1024 memory. 80gb hard drive. dvd-r.high res screen, free printer,delivery and a quality product im happy with it!!


^^^thats a good deal from solaris

i walked in a tesco extra the other day they had a range of acer laptops pretty cheap too maybe worth a look!!

 

[Guy]

i bought a dell the other month, inspirion 6000, and its ace!!highly recommend themcame delivered on exactly the day they said 2 weeks before!!!i got mine for £700 intel centrino 1.7 processor, 1024 memory. 80gb hard drive. dvd-r.high res screen, free printer,delivery and a quality product im happy with it!!

where was that from? i went onto dell website, picked the inspiron. put down dvd writer 80gb hard drive 1024 ram and it came to 850 (and yer i did take the service/warranty thing thats an extra 150 off)

only really got about 650 to spend cos my parents are buying me it for christmas/early 21st birthday pressie.


i also require either a firewire connection or a PCMCIA slot.
the built in wireless stuff on the acer is appealing too..

 

[Clellandmc]

the built in wireless stuff on the acer is appealing too..

By the way all Centrino laptops have wireless built into them. If i was going to buy a laptop it would be a Centrino, however if i was going to buy a desktop i'd probably go for AMD.

 

[M1TCH]

where was that from? i went onto dell website, picked the inspiron. put down dvd writer 80gb hard drive 1024 ram and it came to 850 (and yer i did take the service/warranty thing thats an extra 150 off)

only really got about 650 to spend cos my parents are buying me it for christmas/early 21st birthday pressie.


i also require either a firewire connection or a PCMCIA slot.
the built in wireless stuff on the acer is appealing too..

hmm dunno how he got that, probably a good deal on at the time. I got it to £863 for that spec, and paid £859 for mine and thats the 9300 with bluetooth, weird. I also had good delivery too, they said it would be shipped on the 7th of dec(today) and take 1-3 working days but it arrived on monday (5th). I've neved owned a laptop before but I'm in love with it already, it's really quick completely silent and good size to use at my desk with the 17" widescreen. The touch pads good because of the extra page scroll features too but I've bought a mouse as its a big screen to move around. I didn't go for the screen upgrade as I knew this one would be good enough as they use samsung lcd's.

 

[Guy]

hmm

could i save a bob or two this way??

same laptop here but with just 512mb ram at 512 quid incl delivery

http://www.savastore.com/productinf...atalog_name=Savastore&page=mainfeatures&pid=5

then buy 512mb ram from here? (is that the correct ram any techy people?)

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=82242

would come to like £550


i know my current laptop has SO DIMM memory in it, but that savastore website quotes the acer as using DDR SDRAM ?? does this mean its not the usual SO DIMM laptop memory? or is the SD ram available in various fitments?

anyone more technical got a clue as i only know basic stuff

 

[Clellandmc]

hmm

could i save a bob or two this way??

same laptop here but with just 512mb ram at 512 quid incl delivery

http://www.savastore.com/productinf...atalog_name=Savastore&page=mainfeatures&pid=5

then buy 512mb ram from here? (is that the correct ram any techy people?)

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=82242

would come to like £550


i know my current laptop has SO DIMM memory in it, but that savastore website quotes the acer as using DDR SDRAM ?? does this mean its not the usual SO DIMM laptop memory? or is the SD ram available in various fitments?

anyone more technical got a clue as i only know basic stuff

IMO a laptop is not as user friendly to upgrade as a desktop, if your not confident upgrading it then, it's worth spending the extra in the first place, plus you may void the warrenty messing around with the insides, you know what some manufacturers are like these days!

 

[Guy]

IMO a laptop is not as user friendly to upgrade as a desktop, if your not confident upgrading it then, it's worth spending the extra in the first place, plus you may void the warrenty messing around with the insides, you know what some manufacturers are like these days!

if it had to go off for any warranty work.. surely can just clip the ram back out??

on my current laptop i just remove the keyboard and the ram just clips in??

 

[M1TCH]

check out ebay, they were a lot cheaper when I was looking at the inspiron 6000 but were like last years release sort of thing.

 

[beatjunkie]

there was a special deal, search the internet for dell e-value codes this is what is used and got a spanker of a deal ill have a look for ya!!!this is my first laptop and pi$$es all over my pc and a quality screen not one of them shiny ones there shite all you can see is yourself!!

Keep checking a discounts forum known as http://www.rpoints.com

This is where i got my code from and it worked a treat, probly have to wait till after christmas now as all the deals are shite at the moment!

Ryan

 

[Guy]

there was a special deal, search the internet for dell e-value codes this is what is used and got a spanker of a deal ill have a look for ya!!!this is my first laptop and pi$$es all over my pc and a quality screen not one of them shiny ones there sh*te all you can see is yourself!!

Keep checking a discounts forum known as http://www.rpoints.com

This is where i got my code from and it worked a treat, probly have to wait till after christmas now as all the deals are sh*te at the moment!

Ryan

aint no promotional codes on there at the minute and im an impatient t**t.. lol

can anyone help me on my previous post.. is that ram suitable for it..

 

[Guy]

check this out...

offer ended yesterday though

reckon if i ring up later about 5.30pm when my mum gets home that they will do me that deal if i buy there and then??



Dell Inspiron 6000 P4M 1.86GHz 15.4" + Free case/battery £682

Intel® Pentium® Pentium M 750 (1.86GHz 2MB L2cache 533MHz FSB)
1024MB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
8X DVD+/-RW
Built-in wifi
15.4" widescreen display
ATI Mobility™ Radeon® X300 64MB HyperMemory®
Free Nylon Deluxe Carrying case
or
Free Second Battery

Offer Due to End 07/12/2005.

 

[MattT]

We've got a few of these babies in...
Gateway MX6635B
Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology with Intel® Pentium® M Processor 7401
(2MB L2 Cache, 1.73 GHz, 533MHz FSB)

1024MB DDR2 (2x512MB) Dual Channel Memory
Expandable to 2GB

Hard Drive:
100GB HDD (4200 RPM)3
Optical Drive: 8x DVD±RW Multi-Format Double Layer

Wireless built-in, gorgeous 15.4" wide-screen etc.
At Staples...for £699 - and offer 12month interest free!

 

[Guy]

matt - are they in at all staples??

are gateway laptops any good and does it look sexy? lol

 

[M1TCH]

check this out...

offer ended yesterday though

reckon if i ring up later about 5.30pm when my mum gets home that they will do me that deal if i buy there and then??



Dell Inspiron 6000 P4M 1.86GHz 15.4" + Free case/battery £682

Intel® Pentium® Pentium M 750 (1.86GHz 2MB L2cache 533MHz FSB)
1024MB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
8X DVD+/-RW
Built-in wifi
15.4" widescreen display
ATI Mobility™ Radeon® X300 64MB HyperMemory®
Free Nylon Deluxe Carrying case
or
Free Second Battery

Offer Due to End 07/12/2005.

I would have gone for that its better spec than mine apart from the screen. oh well

 

[Guy]

dell said theyd ring back in 5 mins as to whether i could have that offer or not.. didnt ring so i went and bought a gateway from staples.

 

[MattT]

dell said theyd ring back in 5 mins as to whether i could have that offer or not.. didnt ring so i went and bought a gateway from staples.

Nice one mate. I could've done you a deal if you were at the Wigan store!

 

[Guy]

didnt know they could do deals at staples.. shoulda tried blagging free firewire cable or something as this has a the smaller 4 pin firewire connection when my firewire cable iv got is the larger 6 pin one.