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

riker71

You should be able to produce your own OS Recovery CD by:

Start -> All Programs -> Dell Accessories -> Dell OS Recovery CD

Just slap a blank CDR (costs about 10p) in the drive and away you go

Thanks for the tip, have just done this for the Dell 5150 I own. Cheers!

marlowtech

sicandar wrote:

Ok thanks just ordered one - given REALLY hard sell to upgrade - declined

Got the laptop with resource cd and xp home backup + 15.1" screen + 6cell battery for £370.67 invluding VAT

I think I did ok....

I did ok didn't I?....

You did ok!

Glad you got it....

Hillfly

aliasojo wrote:

Son has all singing all dancing Sony lappy with it's own xp home disk. Can I format Dell lappy and install from son's copy of xp but use my licence key from bottom of machine?

That should work fine as long as your son's cd is a full XP install - and not a recovery cd for a different brand pc. I have done exactly this with an acer laptop.

slojo

sicandar wrote:

Ok thanks just ordered one - given REALLY hard sell to upgrade - declined

Got the laptop with resource cd and xp home backup + 15.1" screen + 6cell battery for £370.67 invluding VAT

I think I did ok....

I did ok didn't I?....

Sounds OK to me

sicandar

Thanks for that. Somehow, even though you feel ok about it, when somebody else confirms it's a good deal, it makes you feel even better!

Thanks to everbody involved in this thread!

Benny24

Ok all done!!!!!

Phoned home services, got put through to India, pleasant but not understanding lady passed me through to another pleasant indian male.

Gave him the spiel added by Marlowtech , he tried feebly to get me to upgrade, but told him I wanted the offer as stated and he was happy to oblige at £299! :j

Just need to see it land on the doorstep! :rolleyes:

Will keep you all updated!

rowantoad

I've just ordered one with an upgraded battery and xp home backup cd.

Price £317.80 shipped.

Rang 01344 860456 asked for Home Sales. (Thanks PEACHYS)

Got transferred to india, they then confirmed was from UK and wanted home sales, transferred me to Ireland.

Said i'd seen a laptop in the paper for £299 and had been told the offer was extended until the 24th february. (Thanks slojo)

Gave her the number N02135.

She said it was a very basic laptop and wouldn't be suitable for internet, I said thats not true. (She probably meant it was suitable for internet but not gaming)

Tried to sell me upgrade RAM but I said I could upgrade at a later date if necessary.

After that she just went through the spec very nicely, no hard sell, offered me the backup cd for £6. I had to ask for the battery upgrade. Didn't try to sell me the screen upgrade at all. Gave credit card details. Gave me her number and name. Played me the terms and conditions.

Not a problem with the people in Ireland I think/hope, they just make sure you know exactly what you are getting.

I've had the order offer through email but no confirmation yet.

Kettle_2

I've been watching this thread for a while and I'm very tempted as I'm looking to replace the desktop machine I've got in my living room with a cheap laptop.
The only reason I've held off until now is that this machine doesn't appear to have a TV-out, which I need for playing video onto my TV. I know I'm going off on a tangent a bit, but I've seen VGA to Svideo adapters about on the net for under £30 - would anyone recommend / discourage the use of this combination? or should I just wait until a bargain laptop with a TVout is available somewhere?

Thanks

Browntoa

this is a basic laptop, built in "on board" graphics

would'nt recommend this for what you are looking for

Kettle_2

Browntoa wrote:

this is a basic laptop, built in "on board" graphics

would'nt recommend this for what you are looking for

All I'd want to do would be to play back DivX at full screen...nothing fancy.

I'm not really questioning the laptop's ability, it's more of a general question of whether anyone's used anything like this?


Thanks