Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 2735 T5750 3GB 15.4" Laptop £379.00 @ Tesco

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PeteHerts wrote: »

Firstly just over a year ago I bought my mum a Fujitsu laptop that was over £700 so they are not cheap secondly she's 69 years of age and hasn't had any NIGHTMARES as you call it with it.
As it is with the nature of life you will usually only hear bad things about an item and rarely people will say how good it is and for an example I paid £749 for a Sony TV that went wrong just over a month after I bought it so even the best can go wrong but with my laptop and surround sound I have from Sony that I've had for over a year haven't let me down.

Likewise, I'm currently using an Amilo A1630 and have been for the last 3 or so years. Not one single problem with it. :rolleyes:

poppy10_2

Is it really a T5750 though? Everywhere else that is selling this model says it is just a T5500.

pulliptears

Ok, for the benefit of those on the thread that seem to think Im a liar, here is my story with an Amilo.

I bought it at xmas 06, around about June it died a death. As it was covered by the 12 month warranty it went in for repair and I was a little surprised to discover it needed a new hard drive. All repaired it came back a week later. By August the powerpack had failed so back it went again for a new one. At the end of October it failed for the third time, now needing a new motherboard. This time they hadn't got the part and so I was kept hanging on for 6 weeks waiting for one. In total, the laptop had been out for repair for 10 weeks or so.

Eventually, they tech department admitted defeat and I was issued Dixons vouchers to the value of the laptop to replace it, which I did with a Toshiba.

I have since spoken to other Amilo owners (friends, family) who have all encountered problems with these machines. Indeed, when I returned to Dixons to get my replacement the manager of the store quietly told me that he was "nothing short of amazed" when they started to sell Amilo's in store again, because Head Office had made the decision not to stock them some 6 months previously because the return rate was so notoriously bad.

Maybe some of you were lucky with yours, maybe myself and my acquaintances were unlucky with ours. Either way, that is the reason I wouldnt have an Amilo if you gave it to me for free.

Groovygirl

poppy10 wrote: »

Is it really a T5750 though? Everywhere else that is selling this model says it is just a T5500.

Yes definately is a T5750 - the other model they sell with the lower memory is T5500.

poppy10_2

Is this one better? It's an Acer Aspire - got 1gig less RAM (although 2 gig is still plenty) and a bigger 250GB hard drive.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-8550.aspx

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pulliptears wrote: »

Ok, for the benefit of those on the thread that seem to think Im a liar, here is my story with an Amilo.

I bought it at xmas 06, around about June it died a death. As it was covered by the 12 month warranty it went in for repair and I was a little surprised to discover it needed a new hard drive. All repaired it came back a week later. By August the powerpack had failed so back it went again for a new one. At the end of October it failed for the third time, now needing a new motherboard. This time they hadn't got the part and so I was kept hanging on for 6 weeks waiting for one. In total, the laptop had been out for repair for 10 weeks or so.

Eventually, they tech department admitted defeat and I was issued Dixons vouchers to the value of the laptop to replace it, which I did with a Toshiba.

I have since spoken to other Amilo owners (friends, family) who have all encountered problems with these machines. Indeed, when I returned to Dixons to get my replacement the manager of the store quietly told me that he was "nothing short of amazed" when they started to sell Amilo's in store again, because Head Office had made the decision not to stock them some 6 months previously because the return rate was so notoriously bad.

Maybe some of you were lucky with yours, maybe myself and my acquaintances were unlucky with ours. Either way, that is the reason I wouldnt have an Amilo if you gave it to me for free.

That's such a touching story.

You should set up a Toshiba Owners Support Group.

I did that but for Acer when both of my laptops packed in.

God damn electricals.

Ps HEHEHE you bought it from Dixons!

pulliptears

Dany!l_II wrote: »

That's such a touching story.

You should set up a Toshiba Owners Support Group.

I did that but for Acer when both of my laptops packed in.

God damn electricals.

Ps HEHEHE you bought it from Dixons!

Yep, then I learned my lesson and bought a macbook

poppy10_2

Hmmm... a Dixons customer and a Mac owner. I think we can safely say you are not exactly a power user. :rolleyes:

pulliptears

poppy10 wrote: »

Hmmm... a Dixons customer and a Mac owner. I think we can safely say you are not exactly a power user. :rolleyes:

Mac was stipulated as part of my degree. And its former dixons customer. We were all young and naive once.

PeteHerts

Now at Lasky's for £359.99 delivered

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