Should I wait until after Christmas or not?

i-Citizen

Well I have decided to buy a laptop, but just wondering should I buy it now or after christmas, when prices may drop? I can wait for 3 weeks lol but are prices going to drop or new models come out?

flashy

To be honest, they are all much of a muchness nowadays, you can get a good toshiba laptop for £350 now in tyhe shops, Igot one from John Lewis so it included a longer warranty.

I would avoid with a large pole, PC world's own manufactured items, e.g, Emachines and Advent. They are just troublesome.

Dell, Toshiba and Samsung get my vote (and im an IT professional in the daytime)

You probably will find a laptop the same price before and after Xmas, you may as well take advantage of online offer codes for Xmas and get it cheap now.

devizes18193

I would wait , I think the nearer to xmass in these times the more likely ,there will be a big sale . Buy with a credit card and if the firm goes under you have comeback

i-Citizen

what about hewlett packard? dell looks like to me use cheap stuff and when customizing they want you to add quality stuff.

taff007

With most electronic equipment, but particularly with computers, you can keep putting off purchases for the best deal or latest spec, but the truth is when you finally do buy there will be a better option not far away. I've been guilty of this in the past, but now I buy when I need to, and get the best spec for the price I can afford at that time. And then I refuse to look at adverts, offers or go into shops because I know I 'should' have waited.

Leopard

devizes18193 wrote: »

I would wait , I think the nearer to xmass in these times the more likely ,there will be a big sale . Buy with a credit card and if the firm goes under you have comeback

It greatly depends on how much foreign-manufactured computer-ware (indeed any consumer-ware) you expect your Gordon Brown mini-£ to buy you, come January.

Last July, it would get you over US$ 2, for example. Today, it's US $ 1.47. Next month...?

Stuff I buy, in England, from America (at the same price), costs more every week.

Bear also in mind that major manufacturers strive to price things Europe-wide. In part, this is to prevent everyone in Euro-land abandoning their local dealers and buying stuff 15% cheaper in (or online from) Britain and Northern Ireland - and then just changing the plug.

Once existing stocks expire, the only way you're going to get imported kit cheaper than it is now will be in bankruptcy and liquidation auctions.

Have you thought about how much a holiday abroad is going to cost you next year :eek: ? If so, apply the same logic.

Millionaire

Funnily enough I have noticed prices have gone up on certain electronics than what they were a few weeks ago.

It will be interesting to see what they are reduced to in the "sales"