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Recondioned Gateway laptop

jinnywren
jinnywren Posts: 219 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
Just wanted your views on a Gateway Laptop.
Have you heard of make?
Is it any good?
Costs £270 & I wanted it for Xmas box for child doing GCSE's.

Comments

  • Mrs_pbradley936
    Mrs_pbradley936 Posts: 14,573 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    They are well known in the USA.
  • Bowling_4_Gold
    Bowling_4_Gold Posts: 1,771 Forumite
    Could you wait a bit longer? I mean, it may seem like a good deal now, but in six months you will find it considerably out-dated, with the release of Windows 7 and all that...
    The quickest way to become a millionaire is start off as a billionaire and go into the airline business.
    Richard Branson
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    Try this or this one for size.

    The first one needs at least an extra GB of RAM.

    Have you a link to the specs of the Gateway?
  • quinns2003
    quinns2003 Posts: 200 Forumite
    i had a gateway pc...it sucked bigtime..gotta be the worse thing i bought..perhaps i was just unlucky
  • prowla
    prowla Posts: 14,307 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Gateway almost got to be competitors with Dell in the UK about 10 years or so ago, but then they faded away.
    I am always dubious about the use of the words "refurbished" and "reconditioned" when applied to computers and especially laptops - I don't think it means much at all.
  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
    Spend another £20 and get a 17" screen.
  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,623 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »
    Could you wait a bit longer? I mean, it may seem like a good deal now, but in six months you will find it considerably out-dated, with the release of Windows 7 and all that...

    Would that not defeat the purpose of buying it as a christmas present - buying it in february?? :confused:

    Also, every new laptop will be considerably outdated in six months time, ad infinitum
  • Bowling_4_Gold
    Bowling_4_Gold Posts: 1,771 Forumite
    pgilc1 wrote: »
    Would that not defeat the purpose of buying it as a christmas present - buying it in february?? :confused:

    Also, every new laptop will be considerably outdated in six months time, ad infinitum

    Fair enough, I should of said a 'few' months time...

    But still, a £270 PC bough in a few months time will almost certainly be better specced than a £270 PC bought now...
    The quickest way to become a millionaire is start off as a billionaire and go into the airline business.
    Richard Branson
  • AHAR
    AHAR Posts: 984 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Gateway are owned by Acer now.
    I wonder if their computers still come in black & white cow-patterned boxes?
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