Cheap Dell Laptop Inspiron 1.5 GHz 1300 £299 delivered. (merged) [CLOSED]

jaymac_2

Just ordered my Dell. The extra memory from Crucial has gone up since my last lot in November. Does anyone know of anywhere with reasonable cheap memory, please?

davilown

jaymac wrote:

Just ordered my Dell. The extra memory from Crucial has gone up since my last lot in November. Does anyone know of anywhere with reasonable cheap memory, please?

I thought maybe you were looking in the wrong place but it's gone up almost 30% since i bougt some before X-mas
512 cost £36 inc del
now costs £47 inc del

Any idea people?

beer monster

wealthsaver

Doublespresso wrote:

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I would also opt for the extra powerful battery for £11.75

E Value 1 - N02135 (downgrade support to 90 days)

www.dell.co.uk/offer

I agree about the extra battery. However think long and hard about downgrading the support to 90days. Laptops generally suffer more physical extremes than your desktop. They are often lugged about in a bag then left in the car boot, then powered up in a warm home or office.

At least one year warranty I would get and I know a chap who builds and repairs PCs for a living and even he bought a laptop with a 3 year on site warranty! That speaks volumes to me.

Premier_2

To believe that you are downgrading the 1 year's warranty is quite a common misconception.

All Dell branded computers come with a standard 1 year warranty

See Section 7 of Dell's Terms & Conditions

What you are downgrading is the service cover - 90 day CAR ilo 1 year (or more ) CAR
CAR stands for Collect & Return. If the product fails after the service cover ends, then there is no telephone helpline (but there is email technical support), and you may have to return the product back to Dell at your own expense.

Of course, your statutory rights are never affected by whatever T&Cs Dell may write
(although Dell also tell you this too within their T&Cs in order to stay legit.)

If you want to pay money for what is effectively an extended guarantee, that's fine. But like most extended guarantees, they tend not to be worth the money (imo).

mercurystar999

I want some extra ram for my new dell laptop to. Crucial has gone up allot to when i was looking about 3 weeks ago!

joffmeister

Premier wrote:

To believe that you are downgrading the 1 year's warranty is quite a common misconception.

All Dell branded computers come with a standard 1 year warranty

See Section 7 of Dell's Terms & Conditions

What you are downgrading is the service cover - 90 day CAR ilo 1 year (or more ) CAR
CAR stands for Collect & Return. If the product fails after the service cover ends, then there is no telephone helpline (but there is email technical support), and you may have to return the product back to Dell at your own expense.

Of course, your statutory rights are never affected by whatever T&Cs Dell may write
(although Dell also tell you this too within their T&Cs in order to stay legit.)

If you want to pay money for what is effectively an extended guarantee, that's fine. But like most extended guarantees, they tend not to be worth the money (imo).

My Dell laptop lasted 2.5 years without any problems and then gradually had a more and more serious problem with it overheating and cutting out.

Fortunately I had a 3 year warranty and I remembered to get them to fix the thing about a week before it ran out. They not only fixed the overheating problem, but also replaced the keyboard and some slightly damaged bits of the casing - came back almost like new, having been effectively dead when they collected it.

I tend not to get extended warranties for most products, but I would certainly strongly consider it again for a laptop.

Premier_2

joffmeister wrote:

My Dell laptop lasted 2.5 years without any problems and then gradually had a more and more serious problem with it overheating and cutting out.

Fortunately I had a 3 year warranty and I remembered to get them to fix the thing about a week before it ran out. They not only fixed the overheating problem, but also replaced the keyboard and some slightly damaged bits of the casing - came back almost like new, having been effectively dead when they collected it.

I tend not to get extended warranties for most products, but I would certainly strongly consider it again for a laptop.

It sounds like you were unlucky. Yes, some laptops may fail in that time but the majority don't.

The current 3 year warranty costs £94 today. That would be the equivilent of over £100 in 3 years time. In 3 years time, I doubt that the current laptop would even be worth £100.

jaymac_2

Well, I ordered mine on Monday, was told to expect delivery around the 22nd. so I was very surprised that it arrived at 8am this morning....especially as my bargain £184 desktop last year took nearly two months to arrive.

Anyway, anyone found any good memory prices yet?

mercurystar999

I just got an extra 512mb from crucial. There is a thread about getting a free pen drive and there is a code for an extra 4% off! I also went through quidco to get an extra 7%. Without the discount with quidco it came to £45 not bad me thinks?

crumpetman

How did you get 7% through quidco? It's showing as 4.5% for me.

Edit: sorry, you're talking about crucial, not dell. My mistake.