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Tiger
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If I bought a £600 laptop and a desktop PC too - do you reckon they would do me a good deal? No experience as yet of buying from them - phone in is closed til 10th apparently (according to their website anyway)

Ben.

[Edited on 08-01-2008 by Tiger]
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I reckon not. Worth a try though!
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Yeah doubt it but give it a go
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If you ring them you can usually haggle a bit, my mate got a 24" moniter instead of 19" for nothing.
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I'm so fucking torn now coz I can get an alright laptop for 550 quid or a quad core mutts nuts desktop for less money!
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mutts nuts mutts nuts!!!!
Tiger
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But a laptop would be handy - and a desktop would be practical.
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Oh, thought you meant crazy laptop!
Tiger
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No - basically a pretty good laptop - core 2 duo with 2gb ram - or a quad core desktop with 4gb ram.
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Ok - here's the choices at the minute:

LAPTOP:

-Inspiron 1720
-Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T5450 (1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache)
-17" Widescreen
-2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
-250GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
-nVidia® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory

£589.02 Inc. VAT and Delivery.

-------------------or------------------

DESKTOP:

-Intel® Core™2 Quad Q6600 (4 X 2.40GHz) 1066MHz FSB/8MB L2 Cache
-4GB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz
-250GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7200rpm)
-Geforce 8600 GTS HDTV + HDCP DDR3 Graphics Card

£602 inc VAT and Delivery.

[Edited on 08-01-2008 by Tiger]
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Desktop imo, what are you planning on using it for?

Also, have you got the monitor and peripherals to go with it?
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Photography - a lot of photo editing and processing, but there'll be occasions where i'll have to show clients photos - it will also have about 60GB of music on there.

Forgot to mention - the Desktop comes with 17" widescreen monitor too and the Laptop is wireless equipped.

[Edited on 08-01-2008 by Tiger]
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cant you get the laptop with a desktop docking station
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Go for the desktop, most of your clients I would've thought would have PC's or emails you could send the pictures to them on.

A lappy would be more convenient for showing clients but i'm sure you could work around it seeing as you appear to get so much more from the desktop.

All else fails, pick up a shitty lappy of ebay for taking it to clients.
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17" widescreen has a very small vertical res - 900 pixels. Personally I would be compromising on the performance somewhere and going larger than that.
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the inspirons are a bit cheap and nasty they are like a dell budget range.

the latitudes are the ones if you can afford it
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The insprions ar ethe home machines, latitudes business, absolutely nothing to do with cheap and nasty.

You get cheap nasty latitudes.
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whats the name of the cheaper business range? they definatly do them im getting mixed up with my names been a while since i did procurememt
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Precision thats it
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Precision is the workstations stevie boy.

Inspiron and dimension are home.

Vostro and Latitude are standard business systems.

Precision are the high end workstations for cad etc.

All have good and rubbish models.
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Precision is the workstations stevie boy.

Inspiron and dimension are home.

Vostro and Latitude are standard business systems.

Precision are the high end workstations for cad etc.

All have good and rubbish models.




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this is wat im talking about



but like i said been a while since i did this so they may have shuffled names or whatnot.

they never even had the vostro line wen i was ordering this stuff
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Yeah you cheeky bastard Stcheven. My Inspiron cost £1000 and my Dads Dimension about the same

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laptops will always be expensive compared to what you can get in desktop form
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My specs pretty good thanks

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