MarkM
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Acer Aspire 3004WLMi AMD Sempron 3100+ 1GB 60GB DVD±RW 15.4" WLAN XP Home + FREE Works
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AMD Sempron 3100+ (25W)
1GB DDR
60GB HDD
DVD-Dual
64MB Shared VGA
15.4" WXGA TFT
Modem, LAN
802.11b/g WLAN
4-Cell Li-Ion Battery
FREE MS-Works
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Brand new from ebuyer...anyone tell me if this is worth the £517 asking price??
Acer Aspire 3004WLMi AMD Sempron 3100+ 512MB 100GB DVD±RW 15.4" LAN XP Home + FREE WORKS
Features
AMD Sempron 3100+ (25W)
512MB DDR
100GB HDD
DVD-Dual
64MB Shared VGA
15.4" WXGA TFT
Modem, LAN
802.11b/g WLAN
4-Cell Li-Ion Battery
FREE MS-Works
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Or is this one more value for money?? at £500??
Only difference is the top one has 1MB of Ram 60GB HD...bottom one has 512MB Ram and 100GB HD....
Only really using it for my law course...bit of browsing the web...downloading etc...burning CD's and DVD's...no games played on it....or any programs such as Illustrator etc...
Any help appreciated
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MarkM
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Oh and im on a budget hence the £500 price tag...dont want anything too flash as I say its mainly for my work....
Needs to be mobile too...dont want a huge laptop...
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MarkM
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Ian??
Anyone??
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Tiesto
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Top one. Basically for the 1gb memory. Or if you think you might be capable enough, buy the 2nd and buy a seperate memory stick (512mb) and install it yourself.
Also do you know speed of the hardrive? guessing its 5400rpm on the second however if its 7200rpm on the first deffo get that one.
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MarkM
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How do I find that out??? HD speed??
Cheers
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John
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How much are you likely to be storing on it?
I'd go for the one with the bigger hard drive because you don't sound like you'll be doing anything you need more memory for.
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MarkM
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Wont be storing much....nothing major...gone for the 1GB Ram one as its more future proof....
And if I start to run out of space I can always buy an external HD as there cheap enough now...
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John
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1gb ram has made it no more future proof than 512 would have been but they are basically the same anyway.
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MarkM
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quote:
Originally posted by John
1gb ram has made it no more future proof than 512 would have been but they are basically the same anyway.
What I mean is that its one less thing to worry about as I would have been looking to upgrade the RAM in the future...probably a lot sooner than I would fill the HD...
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John
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There would have been no reason to upgrade the ram.
Unless your usage needs change you'd never need more ram, hard drives fill up.
But as above it doens't really matter either way.
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MarkM
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Yes but would it be cheaper to increase the RAM or the HD in the future??
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by MarkM
Yes but would it be cheaper to increase the RAM or the HD in the future??
lappy HDs are bloody expensive, so its cheaper to buy sticks of ram for laptops - still not cheap, but cheaper 
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Ian
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I personally would use the RAM more than the hard drive and you can move old stuff around on network shares, write to CD etc. if space gets right. RAM you use every day.
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MarkM
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Ian - I concur with my learned friend
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