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

blah_2

First impressions Are:

-Nice little laptop, Lightweight

-14.1" Screen is small but usable

-Windows XP Home runs Slow With 256mb and when Loaded with Dell`s Software, Fresh install of XP Pro Speeds it up.

-Wireless Works Fine

-Mouse Pad\Buttons Are Small and Fiddly

-Havent used The DVD+\-R Yet

-For £299.00 Cant really go wrong

slojo

blah wrote:

First impressions Are:

-Nice little laptop, Lightweight

-14.1" Screen is small but usable

-Windows XP Home runs Slow With 256mb and when Loaded with Dell`s Software, Fresh install of XP Pro Speeds it up.

-Wireless Works Fine

-Mouse Pad\Buttons Are Small and Fiddly

-Havent used The DVD+\-R Yet

-For £299.00 Cant really go wrong

How did you know what soolin's first impressions were?

kingkano

blah wrote:

Order Date: 17/02/2006
Actual Shipment Date: 19/02/2006
Delivered Tuesday

Order Date: 15/02/2006
Actual Shipment Date: 17/02/2006
Delivered: Monday

BRISTOL, GB 02/20/2006 1:20 P.M. DELIVERY
02/20/2006 6:58 A.M. IMPORT SCAN
02/20/2006 6:57 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
EAST MIDLANDS AIRPOR, GB 02/19/2006 11:30 P.M. IMPORT SCAN
02/19/2006 11:23 P.M. IMPORT SCAN
KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 02/18/2006 1:04 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
SHANNON, IE 02/17/2006 1:52 P.M. EXPORT SCAN
02/17/2006 1:51 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
IE 02/17/2006 4:54 A.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

hmmm cheers for that. Im still not sure now doh! UPS definitely says EXPRESS SAVER is next day delivery within EU. guess that doesnt necessarily mean alot....

Anyone else got their infos from UPS etc?

It was collected from DELL today, and says in transit now. I've taken tomorrow off now so fingers crossed it DOES come.

I am suprised yours went from ireland to germany back to UK? is that not just ODD?? lol

BTW thanks blah for posting that

Basil_Fawlty

kingkano, blah, same person? :rotfl:

kingkano

spaceage wrote:

kingkano, blah, same person? :rotfl:

huh? dont get it....

codetown

venna wrote:

2 - I really need MS Office (word/excel) to work at home easily (i.e no importing/expoting and reformatting between applications). Is it best to upgrade at order or could I pick a copy of Office 2003 cheaply somewhere else?

Any advice gratefully received

I would recommend to try OpenOffice (https://www.openoffice.org). Absolutely no need for reformatting or importing/exporting. It does the job in the same format as MS Word/Excel.
I doubt you will find legal copies of Office very cheaply around. But with openOffice (which is free and open source) you have no more problems!

Chuffy

The big question is - now you have received the laptop, would you still buy it?

talkshop

Chuffy wrote:

The big question is - now you have received the laptop, would you still buy it?

If they have received it, then they have bought it


If you have not received it, then you have not bought it.

Old Chinese proverb say

mikey9863

just got off the phone to dell. kicked up a stink about the offer and the hassle to get it refused the upgrades and guess what? one is on its way!!!!!!!

not bad system for 299 squid.

venna

Thanks for the advice kingkano and codetown
Still pondering . . . . .