Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
Location: County Durham
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im looking for a laptop as my cd drive decided to fuck up again and im sick of the thing. plus my 13 year old laptop that i use for ecu diagnostics and mapping broke a few weeks back ( I got angry and stamped on it when it lost the map out of my ecu meaning another trip to noble motorsport for a re-map )
im sick of looking on the net for deals because they are never available instore and I need one today as i have bought the missus an i-pod for her birthday today and she cant use it
anyway, has anyone seen any good laptop deals in places like comet, pc world dixons etc.... and with laptops is it worth buying a brand name like toshiba or are stuff like acer any good? got £600 to spend.
what features should i look for?
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antscorsa
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: london
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id buy a dell to be honest, there cheap but very well specd and good after service. fail that id prob buy an apple ibook
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sigibbons
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Registered: 10th Feb 04
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I definatly wouldnt buy from a highstreet store.
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Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
Location: County Durham
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does this look any good? lots of ram
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1351188106.1143970973@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccegaddhgmhgfehcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&fm=1&sm=1&tm=undefined&sku=141205&category_oid=-27751
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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Ebuyer 
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Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
Location: County Durham
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need one today
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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You're gonna have to get off the internet and go looking then  
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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dell...I definitely recommend dell....Have 3 laptops from dell and never ever had any problems...and they are definitely good specs...
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/promo.aspx/promocompare?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~tab=2
GO FOR DELL....
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iceman
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Registered: 22nd Jul 00
Location: Berkshire
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or speak to me
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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Don't goto PC World. Just don't.
Dell is where you want to look.
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vibrio
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Registered: 28th Feb 01
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa808
im looking for a laptop as my cd drive decided to fuck up again and im sick of the thing. plus my 13 year old laptop that i use for ecu diagnostics and mapping broke a few weeks back ( I got angry and stamped on it when it lost the map out of my ecu meaning another trip to noble motorsport for a re-map )
im sick of looking on the net for deals because they are never available instore and I need one today as i have bought the missus an i-pod for her birthday today and she cant use it
anyway, has anyone seen any good laptop deals in places like comet, pc world dixons etc.... and with laptops is it worth buying a brand name like toshiba or are stuff like acer any good? got £600 to spend.
what features should i look for?
I've got an acer. 1.6 pentium M, 512MB ram 40gig HDD. if your not using it for anything other that what you were doing before then any new laptop is going to be better surely. places like Dell offer good deals but you have no person near by for back up and they don't always have the best deals for spec either
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ssj_kakarot
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Registered: 29th Apr 03
Location: hartlepool
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aldi had an amazing laptop in the paper the other day amazing spec, a median one top notch was about £699 though, but when i looked there was no were that would give you a higher spec than that, probs sold out now though they sel pretty fast when they get em in, pop down to an aldi store if you have one close might get a bargain.
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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buy name....PC are like that these days...just don't buy laptops because they are cheap...better get value for your money and buy Dell
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Not sure if anyone else has had this problem with Dell laptops but the ones at work (three diffrent models) have dodgy power supplys that won't charge the battery after a while. Change the power supply and they charge. Nice tidy systems apart from that.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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He says he has to get it today so dell's no use.
And if the specs are ok buy it.
Brand names mean nothing.
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Acer, hp, Toshiba are not bad. got a couple of tidy hp ones at work 
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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i have an advent on, similar spec to vibrios acer on, cost me 350 quid. does all the things i need it to, i wouldnt pay more just for the brand name
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
Location: Liverpool
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Picked up this for £520 last week
Acer AMD 1.8
1024 Ram
DVD+CD RW
69 GB Hard Drive
Crystalbrite screen
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sac1508
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Registered: 28th Nov 05
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Buy a mac they are the future!!!!
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