The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

JDPower

kevin_smith98M wrote: »

just shows what i dont know about computers; presumably the spec'd card is no good?

Intergrated Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 512MB


i have found a graphics card comparison "league table" - not sure if it is any good/accurate though

It's reasonable for an integrated card, my laptop has 256Mb integrated graphics and handles everything I've thrown at it (though I don't play any modern games on it and have XP not Vista).

And that graphics comparison table is very useful, think I posted it a while back myself as I use it sometimes to help when trying to separate different laptop graphics cards.

JDPower

chocolateteddy wrote: »

You techies have been so helpful so I wondered which of the two toshibas below you would say is better spec wise. I do want to be able to wordprocess, surf a bit and edit my humble home videos and I know they both have shared graphics but didn't know if one was superior to other. I realise one is amd and the other intel but wasn't sure if one was better than the other as there are so many different names about (centrino, core2duo, pentium, turion etc etc!!)Sorry about long post Couldn't figure out which bits to leave out in case they were important.

Purely on spec the second one is better (the Satellite L300-1AQ)

SharonAnn_2

Dell had some great sales on recently Lap Tops and desk tops from £249 small screen to £349 and up 15" screen.
I have 2 desk tops from Dell and cannot knock them for their after sales support its fantastic, they are always there when you need to know anything. If anything goes wrong you can agree for them to take control of your computer and put the faults right for you.
I would most deffinately join there news letters and they send you special offers.
You can type in Dell bargain offers in your browser but they change often so it`s worth just going back a few times to check what on offer.

chocolateteddy

Typical went to order Toshiba l300 1aq from bennetts and guess what out of stock! they do, do a toshiba L350 170 with the following spec is this similar or better than the l300 1aq? it is actually £1 cheaper!!
Thanks
spec below

Processor type : Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor T3200
clock speed : 2.00 GHz
Front Side Bus : 667 MHz
2nd level cache : 1 MB
Operating system Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition (pre-installed, Toshiba-HDD recovery)

System memory standard : 2,048 (1,024 + 1,024) MB
maximum expandability : 4,096 MB
technology : DDR2 RAM (800 MHz)
Hard disk (Copy) capacity : 250 GB
certification : S.M.A.R.T.
DVD Super Multi drive (Double Layer) compatibility : CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-R(DL), DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R(DL), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
maximum speed : Read: 24x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM/ Write: 24x CD-R, 4x CD-RW, 10x HS CD-RW, 24x US CD-RW, 8x DVD-R, 6x DVD-R (Double Layer), 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+R, 6x DVD+R (Double Layer), 8x DVD+RW, 5x DVD-RAM
type : DVD Super Multi (Double Layer) drive
Display size : 17.0 "
type : Toshiba TruBrite® WXGA+ TFT High Brightness display
internal resolution : 1,440 x 900
Graphics adapter manufacturer : Intel®
type : Mobile Intel® GMA 4500M
memory : up to 1,340 MB total available graphics memory with 3 GB system memory
memory type : shared

stamford

I wonder how buster1980 is getting on with his new laptop & nintendo ds ?

Garetha

stamford wrote: »

I wonder how buster1980 is getting on with his new laptop & nintendo ds ?

:rotfl:

SpammyTheSpammer

They tried a dutch aution for 20 Nintendo DS Lites and welched on the deal - see item 12604438 on this site: -
http://uk.ten.ebid.net/perl/account.cgi?id=12604438&mo=account-review
Then, some poor sucker fell for their next offered attempt with item 12866383: -
http://uk.four.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?auction=12866383&mo=auction
In this case, the sucker made payment using GOOGLE PAY but CGKELECTRICALS claimed that "google will not release the payment to me". So presumably even GOOGLE PAY think that they are dodgy. Sheesh! CAVEAT EMPTOR does not have enough capitals in it to warn a buyer off from CGKELECTRICALS...

buster1980

getting on with my laptop and ds very well thanks

SpammyTheSpammer

So, bought the DS from them didya? S'Funny - they will not sell them to anyone else!
Anyone out there looked at them EBID listings from CGKELECTRICALS and got any comments? That is to say, better look at them quick as CGKELECTRICALS are about to have their listings removed from EBID for contraventions and probably be banned any minute now just like they were when they are on EBAY.
Incidentally, I note that they are also trying to sell items that they do NOT ACTUALLY have in stock - see this : -
http://uk.three.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?auction=9805806&mo=auction
Sheesh! Another unfortunate event with payment - this time its PPPay.com

Browntoa

was a recurring them on their ebay auctions before they were chucked off