Dell Inspiron 1300 £299 Inc VAT & Delivery (merged)

rjtyrell

blah wrote:

McAfee seems to be the main memory suxer on these laptop, im still running mine with 256 (clean xp pro install)
Its running fine with half a dozen webpages open, outlook,messenger few other small apps.

blah

I have been having this issue and ordered a belkin one for £28.50 which I found out is no use, I have been speaking to some really helpful people on AV forum, see the posts:-

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=316968

I am gonna order one from ebuyer for £46 with vat including a usb adaptor

rjtyrell

sorry the above response should be linked to the person who asked about aol and what router.

rowantoad

jolenejolene wrote:

should i get rid of mcafee then? What do you suggest as an alternative? Also have ordered 512 mb of memory. Does this mean the laptop will be 512+256 mb (768) in total then? Or will it be 512. Confusing!!!! Many thanks.

You'll have 768, leave the existing stick in.

AVG is good and it's free http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

tabath

Vjain: Re the router. If you want wireless you may as well buy a router with built in wireless. Buffalo are good or 3com. There is 3com at dabs at the moment where you also get a pcmcia and a usb wifi card as well.Good deal.

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

rjtyrell wrote:

I have been having this issue and ordered a belkin one for £28.50 which I found out is no use, I have been speaking to some really helpful people on AV forum, see the posts:-

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=316968

I am gonna order one from ebuyer for £46 with vat including a usb adaptor

Thanks! :T Just AOL are so 'fussy' I wanted to make sure it would work and buy the same as another AOL 'basic' user. If that makes any sense?

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

tabath wrote:

Vjain: Re the router. If you want wireless you may as well buy a router with built in wireless. Buffalo are good or 3com. There is 3com at dabs at the moment where you also get a pcmcia and a usb wifi card as well.Good deal.

Thanks! As I just said above, AOL are so 'fussy' I wanted to make sure it would work and buy the same as another AOL 'basic' user. Also, these Dell laptops (which I have just purchased on the original deal) include a wifi card so I dont need 1 of them

MsDelightful

Hey guys

Thanks for the help so far. I bought my Dell 1300 on sunday and two days later it was on my doorstep. Funny cos since then I've had 2 calls from Dell and an email saying that they need to speak to me or else they can't go ahead with the sale - when I've already got the machine + my bank has been debited! I wonder if this is a sales thing, they've realised I bought the cheap stripped down version and want to pressure me into something more. So I've decided to ignore these calls - do you think this is wise?

Also as has been mentioned they've installed a lot of crap on this machine. All this AOL and tiscali and Wanadoo stuff. I've deleted the latter two but AOL has a whole raft of programs and I'm a bit scared to delete all of them - would this be ok? Also someone mentioned the MacAfee protection thing wasn't good, should I delete this too? Where would I get virus protection if I do this, being a good MSE I don't want to pay anymore obviously

Otherwise very pleased with my bargainous laptop, came straight out of the box easy to set up and start to use. Monitor seems a bit small/narrow though, and quite a bulky machine (compared to my old Compaq Armada). But still big improvement!

Thanks again!!

P.S one funny thing I noticed about their user guide, it's in English as you may expect EXCEPT for the returns policy which is in swedish, hm...

buggu

MsDelightful wrote:

Hey guys

Also as has been mentioned they've installed a lot of crap on this machine. All this AOL and tiscali and Wanadoo stuff. I've deleted the latter two but AOL has a whole raft of programs and I'm a bit scared to delete all of them - would this be ok? Also someone mentioned the MacAfee protection thing wasn't good, should I delete this too? Where would I get virus protection if I do this, being a good MSE I don't want to pay anymore obviously

I would personally format the hard drive and reinstall xp again. If you dont want to do that then best to uninstall all the unnessary programns inc aol via add/remove programs. However there is a good chance some uninstall programs may not delete all of the junk software, in which case you wil have to seek help from tech forums. As for a free antivirus software use avg, personally i got nod32 which i hardly notice is running.

bad-head-day

A huge vote for nod32 from me too.

I must say I'm not impressed by the way dell are making a new deal every day. I read the Independent & there seems to be a different inspiron offer whenever I look.

MickKnipfler

Is there one to match?