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

real1314

...you can cancel within 7 days. If you'd received it you'd have to pay paostage back, but if not, just tell the post office to return to sender. then re-order at the new price?


edit: just noticed that they resevre the right to charge a 20% re-stocking fee = £9.00 - might apply it in this sort of case?

real1314

thfccambs wrote:

I've had a nightmare with getting shot of mcafree and a few other things.

Going to try and do a full system restore.I've made a copy of OS recovery CD,now can some one run through what i need to do now?

This is last resort as well.

Keep getting windows installer come on everytime i boot laptop up.

now getting sonic update manager keep coming up.

go to control panel>add / remove programs> McAfee uninstaller.

gives you the option to take all the MCAfee stuff off in one go.

got zonealarm and AVG running now

Premier_2

I think some of you guys are getting really carried away with this extra memory game.

As was correctly posted earlier in this thread, do you really need any more? This is a bottom end, entry level laptop we are talking about. A good deal? yeah!, but thinking that adding more memory will turn a mini-metro into a ferrari just isn't going to happen.

Memory allows you to multi-task on the computer - as the computer is handling more applications and more computations, then it relies on memory. However you still have a 850cc engine installed not a 4.6L V8 turbo charged engine.

What I'm trying to say is what are you guys hoping to achieve with this laptop? If you want it for email, browsing the net, writing some word documents, excel documents powerpoint presentations, then it will do this.

If you want to do all these at once whilst having numerous security software packages running in the background (i.e. Internet Security suite, Anti-spyware, cookie monitor...) then considering an upgrade to a TOTAL of 512 MB would certainly be a good idea, but more than that really isn't worth it.

I'm running a pentium 4 desktop here, 3.2GHz, 800fsb, 64MB separate graphics card, sound card, etc...(get the idea?) and I only have 512 MB of RAM installed, & its difficult for me to max this out.

Remember, even if the computer does enter a condition that it needs extra memory, theres the hard disk it can use (they call this virtual memory) and that will do almost the same job but a little slower to access.

What I'm suggesting is don't waste the money you have managed to save in eventually getting the laptop on a load of extra memory that you will never use. Adding more memory does not automatically add speed - it only applies if the computer actually needs that memory to perform the tasks you are asking of it. An extra 256MB of RAM (giving a total of 512MB) will be plenty for this little laptop.

marlowtech

Premier wrote:

I think some of you guys are getting really carried away with this extra memory game.

As was correctly posted earlier in this thread, do you really need any more? This is a bottom end, entry level laptop we are talking about. A good deal? yeah!, but thinking that adding more memory will turn a mini-metro into a ferrari just isn't going to happen.

Memory allows you to multi-task on the computer - as the computer is handling more applications and more computations, then it relies on memory. However you still have a 850cc engine installed not a 4.6L V8 turbo charged engine.

What I'm trying to say is what are you guys hoping to achieve with this laptop? If you want it for email, browsing the net, writing some word documents, excel documents powerpoint presentations, then it will do this.

If you want to do all these at once whilst having numerous security software packages running in the background (i.e. Internet Security suite, Anti-spyware, cookie monitor...) then considering an upgrade to a TOTAL of 512 MB would certainly be a good idea, but more than that really isn't worth it.

I'm running a pentium 4 desktop here, 3.2GHz, 800fsb, 64MB separate graphics card, sound card, etc...(get the idea?) and I only have 512 MB of RAM installed, & its difficult for me to max this out.

Remember, even if the computer does enter a condition that it needs extra memory, theres the hard disk it can use (they call this virtual memory) and that will do almost the same job but a little slower to access.

What I'm suggesting is don't waste the money you have managed to save in eventually getting the laptop on a load of extra memory that you will never use. An extra 256MB of RAM (giving a total of 512MB) will be plenty for this little laptop.

Excellent post!

rowantoad

I think calling it a mini metro is a bit mean, its a 'metro 6r4' if anything.

But I agree, a stick of 256MB, if you can stretch to it, will give you a good return for your money. More than that you are getting rapidly diminishing returns for most uses. I think Sid Harper was saying this earlier.

iBag

I use a 500MHz laptop with 192Mb memory. It runs XP very sweetly, and for wireless internet browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and the like it is just fine.

(I have an older laptop running XP at 233MHz on 64Mb. That is noticeably slow!)

My desktop machine has been running XP with 256Mb until recently when I upgraded it to 384Mb because I happened to have some spare memory. It made no difference that I could detect.

My experience is that large amounts of memory are usually not required.

Chuffy

For those who are desperate for extra memory there is some cheap here:

http://www.lowestonweb.com/Products/DisplayInfoMain.asp?e=E42351D9-AB2C-478A-9F01-36CA17D9469D

£25.49 for 512MB delivered. It's a 'no brand' but sold by a reputable company (Evesham). No mention of warranty.

tightus_wad

Sorry - but sooo much BS is spoken here about memory by 'experts'- it's hard for an ICT techy to believe! 16 years ICT experience speaking here. Extra memory DOES make a difference - as for comparing with cars etc. - made me chuckle!

If you want a primer on memory management etc. including virtual paging and swapping - pm me - otherwise.

To summarise....More memory = faster machine. PERIOD.
If you want to watch a DVD or play MP3 while surfing or editing a doc. YOU NEED MORE MEMORY!! I am using explorer and a virus checker and anti spyware and am using MORE THAN ALL of my physical memory - windows xp is greedy! Basically my machine, if I do owt else, needs to put something to one side (onto disk) get something from the disk into memory. This takes time - if it was in memory - it would be 10's if not 100's of times faster than getting it from the hard disk. Obviously - cost gets prohibative - you dont want to spend £250 on 2gb memory for this lappy!

This machine uses part of its memory for graphics - if you are running top 1280x800 graphics at 32 bits...then lots will be gone b4 you start! Microsoft techies rec. about 512mb for Windows XP...

to summarise - 512mb for £36 quid is well worth it - 10% of the price of the machine for more than 10% perf. boost.

I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH CRUCIAL!
tightus_wad puts his flame suit on and stands well back....

rowantoad

tightus_wad wrote:

Sorry - but sooo much BS is spoken here about memory by 'experts'- it's hard for an ICT techy to believe! 16 years ICT experience speaking here. Extra memory DOES make a difference

Thanks for the lecture, ever heard of vax/vms, its what windows nt/xp is based on and some of us actually program rather than stick together things like lego.

tightus_wad

rowantoad wrote:

Thanks for the lecture, ever heard of vax/vms, its what windows nt/xp is based on and some of us actually program rather than stick together things like lego.

Thanks for that
VAX/VMS - specialist here! worked for more companies as a vax vms specialist than I care to mention
From pdp 11's when vms was a twinkling - all the way thru to the nightmares of 5.5-2 and Y2K upgrades!

I doo know what I talk about - worked for Digital b4 it became Compaq then HP!

oh - I programmed in Fortran on the old PDP prob. b4 you had a lego set!

Steady tiger!