Sam
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How much did you last spend on your current system, and what type of computer is it? Oh and was it brand new or secondhand when you got it?
I'm interested to find out what people generally buy as I'm working on a range of PCs and laptops to sell online (hopefully that offer better value for money than what you can buy from the likes of PC World/eBuyer etc.), and thought I'd ask a large cross section of people. 
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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£1,200 on Macbook Air 13" 128GB last November
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Varies massively.
Is it even worth trying to compete with Dell or whoever, or even PC World, everything is cheap as chips just now and you can't grumble with a Dell 3 year warranty.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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£380 on a Dell Optiplex i5 which I've since added an ATI 2450 and 2270 to and two 2gb drives, currently stands me about 700.
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Conway563
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
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Only got the mrs' laptop at the moment. Think it cost her around £600
Currently it's got a broken screen so looking to replace it with a netbook around the £200 mark but hopefully as cheap as possible
[Edited on 08-11-2011 by Conway563]
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Varies massively.
Is it even worth trying to compete with Dell or whoever, or even PC World, everything is cheap as chips just now and you can't grumble with a Dell 3 year warranty.
Absolutely. I could probably offer a similar level of warranty too as most components that go into a PC are normally 2/3 year warranty (and lifetime in the case of a lot of RAM manufacturers). Laptops I could probably offer an optional extended warranty too or negotiate a free one depending on make.
People go to Dell because they are a well known brand, just like the others you see in High Street shops. Doesn't mean smaller companies can't offer better alternatives, support and pricing though.
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Gary
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Theres a place called CCl (cclonline.com/co.uk) up the road from me. They deal with a lot of stuff online and the shop is always busy.
sheck out their site for the sort of deals they have on. My full setup came from there.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
Theres a place called CCl (cclonline.com/co.uk) up the road from me. They deal with a lot of stuff online and the shop is always busy.
sheck out their site for the sort of deals they have on. My full setup came from there.
Went in there a few times for 'bits & bobs' when I lived in Huddersfield although generally i thought they were pretty expensive. Usually went to Microdirect (they aren't terribly cheap either) if I needed something the same day or t'internet otherwise.
Current system, probably about £900 (Q6600/4GB ex keyboard/mouse/monitor etc) but that was 3 years ago.
[Edited on 08-11-2011 by Dom]
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Gary
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We have dealer discount though
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Hammer
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Missus bought me a Dell last Christmas about 600 quids worth.
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James
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Location: Surrey
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About £400 in 2006 excluding monitor. It's a desktop PC that I built myself so that was the cost of the components.
All I've done since is upgraded the RAM. Still runs pretty fast but I have formatted it a couple of times.
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Nath
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Built my own for about £600 inc. monitor.
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Andrew
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I'm currently building a new server as i'm bored with the Dell T410 i have. So far i've bought a case and ran out of money 
Dell T410 - £1200
Mac Mini - £550
Laptop - £700
iPad - £550
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ed
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Spent £1280 on my MacBook Air last month, was the 1.8 GHz i7 with 256GB SSD and 4GB RAM.
My previous was a Dell XPS M1330 with a 250GB HDD, 4GB RAM and a Core2 Duo. Also had some kind of Nvidia mobile graphics card on it and cost about £900 in 2008.
Both bought brand new, though the Dell came from a reseller on Ebay as it worked out cheaper to buy a pre-built system rather than a BTO.
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Gary
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
So far i've bought a case and ran out of money
Well then your an idiot.
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Sunz
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About £450 and I use it for gaming and just general use.
Amd x6 3.2 ghz cpu.
4gb 1333mhz ddr3.
500 Watt psu.
Windows 7 home 64 bit.
Hd asus 5670.
7200rpm 500gb hardrive.
Nice large gaming case.
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pow
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My Alienware was £1700 retail 1.5 years ago. Worth every single penny i paid for it.
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Gary
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What the fuck do you do on your PC for you to need 1500 quid worth?! 
Your either a PC gaming g33k or do some extreme 3d rendering shizzle
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
I'm currently building a new server as i'm bored with the Dell T410 i have. So far i've bought a case and ran out of money
Dell T410 - £1200
Mac Mini - £550
Laptop - £700
iPad - £550
What do you mean you are bored with it and why have you bought a case for a server, you'd just go and buy another poweredge if you hadn't just made it up.
What extra features do you require for your bedroom exchange server that the T410 doesn't currently have?
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
What the fuck do you do on your PC for you to need 1500 quid worth?!
Your either a PC gaming g33k or do some extreme 3d rendering shizzle
I use it day in day out, 9+ hours a day for everything, work and play.
Core i7, 8GB RAM, SSD, the works in an 11" frame laptop, 6 hours battery life as well.
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by John
quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
I'm currently building a new server as i'm bored with the Dell T410 i have. So far i've bought a case and ran out of money
Dell T410 - £1200
Mac Mini - £550
Laptop - £700
iPad - £550
What do you mean you are bored with it and why have you bought a case for a server, you'd just go and buy another poweredge if you hadn't just made it up.
What extra features do you require for your bedroom exchange server that the T410 doesn't currently have?
What I was thinking but cba to type!
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C2RL R
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Registered: 28th Mar 02
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£1400 dell xps17 i7
Pimped it up a bit with nvidia 3d vision and a better processor.
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mwg
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About £900 on a Dell laptop 3 years ago. Went for a fairly decent spec at the time, 4GB ram, blu-ray player etc.
Could get the same thing much cheaper now.
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Jamie-C
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About £400 straight from the shop, about 5 years old now and I've never upgraded anything. Wish I knew how or what to upgrade though. I'd love a decent computer.
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nathy_87
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£800 - Sony Vaio - Laptop (2yrs ago approx) Brand New.
£170 (offer) HP Touchpad. Recently. Brand New.
[Edited on 08-11-2011 by nathy_87]
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