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Andrew
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24th Jul 05 at 00:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Carr
Someone stick some links in here for places where I can get laptops. Currently got:
Acer
PC world, currys etc
Dabs
Dell
Ebuyer

Any others I should know about?


Off the top of my head:

http://www.aria.co.uk
http://www.computerplus.uk.com
http://www.comet.co.uk
http://www.unbeatable.co.uk
Carr
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24th Jul 05 at 00:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Is this one any good for my £600 budget?
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24th Jul 05 at 00:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Good price.

Depends what you want it for etc.
Carr
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Going away to uni so for word processing and stuff but want at least 512 ram so I can use some other stuff maybe photoshop but not very often and some light gaming to pass the time.
Also trying to find out about the Hotspots that you get with wifi. Can you always use thses if you have wifi or do you need an intel centrino processor as whenever it mentions wifi in adverts it only seems to say hotspot compatibility if a centrnio processor is included?
Enlightenment please?
Carr
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24th Jul 05 at 00:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
BAsically just trying to get average everything or best as I can for my budget really
Carr
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24th Jul 05 at 00:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
as you can't really just upgrade bits on laptops like you can on pcs can you
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Most students download shit loads of movies so you need a huge HD. 60GB in a lappy aint bad though. I know Sony use 100GB SATA drives in the top end systems.
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24th Jul 05 at 00:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Try and take out the extra warranty if you can because as a student you will realise you end up spending 16 hours a day on you computer or in my case 22 hours a day – lol.
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24th Jul 05 at 00:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Another one
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Acer stuff is not bad at all. I've had a BenQ LCD monitor for about 3 years and it still works like new.
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BenQ is just another badge so is Acer.
Carr
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Basically my minimum that I'm looking for is 512RAM, 40GB HD (at least), DVD dual layer drive, 15 + display (as it's more desktop replacement than battery usage, as it's a bit hard to take a tower pc to and from uni and stuff), Some stand alone graphics card like ATI or Nvidea Also trying to get a firewire for my iPod(i know you can get a usb cable) and also for connecting digital camcorder
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24th Jul 05 at 00:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I know i find you get more for your money as with others you are paying for the brand of the laptop eg Samsung and therefore getting less in terms of better ram etc for your budget.

Also it'd nice to get a card reader built in as my digicam gets through loads of batterys but not essential as an external one can be picked up for £10ish
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24th Jul 05 at 09:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Infact just found this laptop and it looks like you get a lot for your money there and only £30odd over my £600 budget

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