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01 January 2008, 05:48 PM

James Neill

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Laptop Deal £234

Spotted this on another website. Good spec by all accounts. Great price if you want something for office stuff and surfing

The Dell Online Store: Build Your System
**** Reduce the warranty to minimum to get down to £234

Dell Vostro 1000 Notebook
AMD Sempron Mobile Technology 3600+
Vista Basic
80GB hard drive
1GB RAM
15.4" 1280x800 screen

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01 January 2008, 06:02 PM

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Sry but that's a crap spec, sempron eiwwwwww. Fine for surfing I guess. Might be sluggish in Vista though.

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01 January 2008, 06:09 PM

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It's still a bargain, by about £50 compared to the cheapest out there.

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01 January 2008, 06:38 PM

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Would possibly struggle to run vista well, especially if you have the pretty stuff turned on, but you can specify it to have XP instead.
Not a bad deal at all.

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02 January 2008, 08:12 AM

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They are absoutely fine in Vista Home. The other half has one the same spec for surfing and office. Runs like a dream. Worth upgrading the battery though as we did.

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02 January 2008, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by bioforger

Sry but that's a crap spec, sempron eiwwwwww. Fine for surfing I guess. Might be sluggish in Vista though.

Always one aint there lol. You could offer a laptop for a fiver and someone would say yeah but its only got 1gb of memory

Simon

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02 January 2008, 09:38 AM

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How much better is the althlon x2 55 for an extra 35 quid?

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02 January 2008, 09:44 AM

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Worth going for I guess, £35 to go dual core. I paid £299 last Christmas for the same spec Inspiron 5100. I've bought another 5 since for friends and they all have no complaints.

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02 January 2008, 09:57 AM

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and the big question...vista or xp? It's for my mum and will be 99.9% for using the web.

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02 January 2008, 10:02 AM

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Price is now £293 with the basic warranty? Would have been interested with the upgrade to the dual core for under £300 but doesn't seem possible now.

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02 January 2008, 11:13 AM

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Quote:

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and the big question...vista or xp? It's for my mum and will be 99.9% for using the web.

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Personally, I'd go Vista. We have Vista on our machines and they are far more stable, reliable & easier to work with than on XP.

Of course, many would argue to the contrary.

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02 January 2008, 11:19 AM

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Well, looks like the price has gone up anyway

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02 January 2008, 01:00 PM

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Always one aint there lol. You could offer a laptop for a fiver and someone would say yeah but its only got 1gb of memory

Simon

Daft comment mate. Semprons are aweful cpu's regardless of whether it runs Vista well or not. I would def pay the extra for an X2 athlon, or budget core2duo, to make it into a decent lappy.

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02 January 2008, 09:22 PM

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I'd go XP - got the missus a thinkpad for Chrimbo and it's sluggish running Vista - it's identical to the machine I'm using now except this has XP and goes like a rocket (have disabled everything in Vista and it's still poor)

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