Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

Donnie

bravehart wrote: »

Well finally managed to get through yesterday and appears my delivery has been lost or nicked :mad: Now after a lot of hassle they have agreed to send another out to me which I thought would have been the obvious thing to do anyway but it wasn't the option they preferred which was refund me then I buy it now at the higher price its listed yeah that was never going to happen .
So back to square one again and waiting on delivery..

Cheeky sods.

Donnie

blackswan2 wrote: »

can't look at ebay today - what's the £270 CR610 .... I presume it's not the one that was £299 last week and around £345 yesterday?

See post #845.

Part_Mouse

I posted before about needing a new laptop,i hoped mine could be saved but alas not. Anyway i mainly surf, watch dvds, word process and listen to music. Iv'e curently got a toshiba but am tempted by Dell, tbh i don't know what there like though.

Would this be good?http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-4937.aspx

I don't want to spend to much but on the other hand i want something good for my money, i also can't stand Vista

Many thanks

nikki02_2

I've been searching again for an alternative to my Acer aspire 3690. My first stumbling point is the processor, which I'm not clued up on at all. My current laptop is a Celeron M. Now that means diddly squat to me. When googling aspire 3690 the current spec appears to be

celeron M processor 1.6ghz
Windows XP
15.4'' TFT
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD

My budget is around the £350 mark

Donnie

Part_Mouse wrote: »

I posted before about needing a new laptop,i hoped mine could be saved but alas not. Anyway i mainly surf, watch dvds, word process and listen to music. Iv'e curently got a toshiba but am tempted by Dell, tbh i don't know what there like though.

Would this be good?http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.209-4937.aspx

I don't want to spend to much but on the other hand i want something good for my money, i also can't stand Vista

Many thanks

No.

Wasn't the problem with the Toshiba fixable? I think that you were quoted £30. Together with courier fees, that would be no more than £50. You can then downgrade to XP.

Part_Mouse

Donnie wrote: »

No.

Wasn't the problem with the Toshiba fixable? I think that you were quoted £30. Together with courier fees, that would be no more than £50. You can then downgrade to XP.

Iv'e got the power port problem and the seems to be another problem with the laptop, my OH has cleaned it up but it frequently crashes (several times a day). I'm not sure whats causing the laptop to crash.

Donnie

Part_Mouse wrote: »

Iv'e got the power port problem and the seems to be another problem with the laptop, my OH has cleaned it up but it frequently crashes (several times a day) Iv'e also got a lot of very personal data on my laptop. I'm not sure whats causing the laptop to crash.

The power port problem can be fixed without the Hard drive being inside the machine. So no need to worry about your sensitive info.

Running Vista Home Premium on 1GB RAM probably doesn't help.

Possible course of action: Remove HDD, fix power port problem. Purchase new HDD for around £30. Buy a caddy for your old HDD £3.80 Black available too.

Run a fresh install with a Toshba XP disc as there just isn't enough RAM for Vista Home Premium.
You'll have a faster laptop with a higher capacity HDD and a 120GB external HDD for just over £80. You can move your stuff over at leisure.

I've sure that for a small surcharge you can ask your friendly repair man to check over the hardware once the power port is fixed.

Part_Mouse

Thanks Donnie but as i don't know the guy that quoted the price it would be very risky to send my laptop out like that

Donnie

Part_Mouse wrote: »

Thanks Donnie but as i don't know the guy that quoted the price it would be very risky to send my laptop out like that

Don't be silly. Do you really think that the technician is going to do a runner with your second hand laptop with a broken power port and no hard drive?? Especially when your courier delivery item should be tracked and insured.
Especially when they take their time to help here for free. What are you thinking? :mad:
I'd be ripping his arm off.

JDPower

Donnie wrote: »

Don't be silly. Do you really think that the technician is going to do a runner with your second hand laptop with a broken power port and no hard drive?? Especially when your courier delivery item should be tracked and insured.
Especially when they take their time to help here for free. What are you thinking? :mad:
I'd be ripping his arm off.

Some people are just like that, they'd rather have newer and better than fixed and cheaper (my sister's one of them). Not very moneysaving but no point getting angry at them and potentially scaring them away from the forum just cos they don't take your advice.

Personally I agree and, for that price, I'd get the old one fixed regardless of whether I actually wanted a new one, if nothing else they can then flog it to meet some of the price of the new one, but it's their choice, their money.