Dell £339 Laptop 15.4" widescreen, wireless, DVDRW (NOW GONE - that's all folks!)

BrightonLad

Ordered a laptop on 1st April, came 7th April. It had said estimated date was 10th April.

Kilty_2

Doesnt look good if estimated date is 24th then

Do they call to see if the date is convenient?

BrightonLad

no they didn't call, and they tried to deliver friday whilst i was at work, left a card saying they'll try to redeliver on 10th monday, but i went to business post depot to pick it up yesterday morning cos i couldn't wait!!!

Dell are very funny about delivery i have found. when i bought one last year i was working in sheffield for 3 months so wanted it delivered up there, but because my CC billing address was for my home, they said they would only deliver it to my house. i had to do a 500mile round trip to pick it up!

BrightonLad

Kilty wrote:

Doesnt look good if estimated date is 24th then

Do they call to see if the date is convenient?

I bought it from Dell Outlet, so the laptop was already built hence 5 day delivery time! They will build your PC to order.

Ally

BrightonLad wrote:

I bought it from Dell Outlet, so the laptop was already built hence 5 day delivery time! They will build your PC to order.

Do they? I thought they did, that is why I called dell, hoping to get it cheaper without the dvd writer ,... CS told me that they are already built to a set spec and can not be downgraded


So ... seeing as Kilty and I have the same EDD .... who do ya think is gonna get the goodies first wanna place a bet anyone

competitionscafe

Any thoughts on how this compares to the Dell offer?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_L20_PSL2YE-00K005EN/version.asp

This Satellite Pro L20 features the efficient Intel Celeron-M 360 processor offering adequate performance for day to day tasks. The integrated wireless networking makes surfing the web simple in hotspots while the CDRW makes sharing or backing up data easy.

* Intel Celeron M Processor 360 1.4GHz
* 256MB DDRII SDRAM - Free Double Memory offer to 512MB - call for details!
* 40GB Hard Drive
* DVD/CDRW Combo Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs
* 15" XGA TFT Screen
* Integrated LAN and 56k v.90 data fax modem
* Integrated wireless 802.11a/b/g
* 4 USB 2.0 Sockets
* Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Pre Loaded
* 1 year warranty - upgradeable to 3 years
* All laptops come with either full restore disks or a restore partition, Power Adaptor and leads
* FREE Vodafone 3G Data card Offer!

£319.11 ex vat £374.95 inc vat

Review: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/81410/toshiba-satellite-pro-l20.html

boatman

competitionscafe wrote:

Any thoughts on how this compares to the Dell offer?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_Satellite_Pro_L20_PSL2YE-00K005EN/version.asp

This Satellite Pro L20 features the efficient Intel Celeron-M 360 processor offering adequate performance for day to day tasks. The integrated wireless networking makes surfing the web simple in hotspots while the CDRW makes sharing or backing up data easy.

* Intel Celeron M Processor 360 1.4GHz
* 256MB DDRII SDRAM - Free Double Memory offer to 512MB - call for details!
* 40GB Hard Drive
* DVD/CDRW Combo Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs
* 15" XGA TFT Screen
* Integrated LAN and 56k v.90 data fax modem
* Integrated wireless 802.11a/b/g
* 4 USB 2.0 Sockets
* Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Pre Loaded
* 1 year warranty - upgradeable to 3 years
* All laptops come with either full restore disks or a restore partition, Power Adaptor and leads
* FREE Vodafone 3G Data card Offer!

£319.11 ex vat £374.95 inc vat

Review: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/81410/toshiba-satellite-pro-l20.html

The Dell one has a DVD writer aswell.

big_ste

just bought a dell laptop via a ebay reseller, it has same spec exept it is 512ddr ram so is better than the one on offer fom dell, I also paid a similar price to the dell offer about £20more but worth it for the extra processing but also get a 1yr guarentee.
Its amazing that companies can bulk buy these and resell them cheaper than dell.
Will be happy to recommend from whom I bought it off, dont know if I should say here or be PM'ed?

Sid_Harper

big_ste wrote:

just bought a dell laptop via a ebay reseller, it has same spec exept it is 512ddr ram so is better than the one on offer fom dell, I also paid a similar price to the dell offer about £20more but worth it for the extra processing but also get a 1yr guarentee.
Its amazing that companies can bulk buy these and resell them cheaper than dell.
Will be happy to recommend from whom I bought it off, dont know if I should say here or be PM'ed?

Can you check something on this... I noticed when I was looking at these on eBay (and there are a lot of sellers on there!), there was one that had the Dell tags in his auctions. So I tapped one of them into the Dell website and when you look at the original configuration sheet it said "refurb"....

...so are they really 'new' as these guys claim?

Ally

There refurbs as far as I know, there is a website where all these sellers exchange info..... They wait for good deals on the outlet site to come up and then buy buy buy!