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cheets99

Dabs 5100

hobo28

I used to have a Dimenson 3000. Great PC if you just want to surf the web and watch movies etc. Lovely and quiet. No good for games tho as it doesn't have a PCIe or AGP slot.

biglugs

No good for games tho

You can put up to an FX6200 card in the PCI slot but that's as far as it will go. Will let you play 3D games at lower settings but struggles to play games like HL2 at 1280x1024. Fine for Harry Potter or even Age of Empires III which my son plays on his with no problems.

Poppycat

The 3000 is good for games (perhaps not the cutting edge ones) abeit not brilliantly fast for sims 2. You have tp upgrade ram and put a pci graphics card in, but it does run fine. My Daughter uses the 3000 to pay sims 2 and all its add ons every day she rarely gets off it. She also use photoshop cs to play about with the game.

Searcher2

statman wrote:

has anybody seen that dabs seem to be doing the same 5100 at the same price with a cheaper delivery??

Yes - I bought one from Dabs Thursday advertised as a 5100 3Ghz but the spec says 2.66Ghz. I suspect these are the same machines that BT are selling. It arrived yesterday and I was more than happy to find that it wasn't a 5100 at all but a 5150 and it was indeed a 3Ghz machine. On top of that there is a X300 SE 128Mb graphics card (i.e. DVI output) and a modem (which is needed in my case). Neither of these were in the spec. The drive is a 160Gb Maxtor and is very quiet - it is hard to tell if the machine is on. That's not to say all the machines they are selling are the same but on the box it says box xxx of 050 and is dated February... so maybe it is from a cancelled order. It was in a sealed Dell box and has original Dell shipping info on it.

I think this is the best buy I have seen on a Dell for a while but I don't know what the warranty is. I am not sure it is worth paying the extra £100 for the 3.4Ghz version though it also has an extra 512Mb. I have had a 5100 for almost 12 months and find it a very good machine - easy to upgrade. Recommend it... but I wouldn't necessarily recommend Dabs as you can't even ring them up! Glad I took the risk though.

EDIT : If you look at the spec for the High End 5100 at BT.COM it actually says 5150 as the model number in there. I wonder if they may have been told not to advertise them as 5150's

pomeroy

The BT site also has a Dell notebook for £299
http://www.shop.bt.com/invt/cal186

georgiac

Does anyone know what type of guarantee there is with these please

Searcher2

georgiac wrote:

Does anyone know what type of guarantee there is with these please

You can 'guarantee' these won't last long now they have hit MSE and RPoints forums.

I am not sure if you can contact BT but you certainly can't contact Dabs.com by phone... I wasn't hanging around to find out what the guarantee is when I ordered mine - as far as I am concerned the goods have to be fit for purpose anyway and there has been talk on sites like this about European law in this respect for which I was taking fit for purpose to mean it should last at least 12 months. If you wanted more of a warranty than 12 months e.g. onsite warranty I would forget it if I were you at these prices and buy a product which specifies on-site warranty.

I doubt anyone will be able to find out before next week...(I could ring up Dell with my service tag number to ask)...but dare you wait??

georgiac

Hi Searcher

I think you are right, these must be flying out. I was going to go for the top end machine but plumped for the £229 as I don't play games and have read I can increase the RAM if necessary.

Does anyone know how easy this would be, please?

biglugs

The Dimension 5100 3.4GHz looks a really good deal. Says it comes with a graphics card with AT LEAST 256MB memory.
It's bound to have one of the X600SE cards in it which DON'T have 256MB - they share it with your PC, so if it did you could always insist on an upgrade
Really tempted to buy one as an upgrade because I've got a 3.0GHz P4 5100 and this one is just that much faster