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Opinions on a laptop please?
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Mumstheword
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Hi,
A laptop has beenoffered for sale, spec below.
Uses are - as a second computer in the home for internet access, games (nothing high tec, though), watching dvds on, taking away as a portable dvd player/pc combined etc.
I've very little knowledge of laptops, so any opinions would be gratefully received......in plain english if you can, lol !!
Thanks!
Medion MD 95408.
1.3 GHz Intel Celeron M320 Processor
Colour display 15' TFT XGA
External usb combo drive
CD/RW/R + DVD-Rom
Unichrome graphics
40GB
256 MB DDR-RAM
16 bit Soundchip with two intergrated speakers
10/100 Mbit fast-ethernet
56K modemv.90.
A laptop has beenoffered for sale, spec below.
Uses are - as a second computer in the home for internet access, games (nothing high tec, though), watching dvds on, taking away as a portable dvd player/pc combined etc.
I've very little knowledge of laptops, so any opinions would be gratefully received......in plain english if you can, lol !!
Thanks!
Medion MD 95408.
1.3 GHz Intel Celeron M320 Processor
Colour display 15' TFT XGA
External usb combo drive
CD/RW/R + DVD-Rom
Unichrome graphics
40GB
256 MB DDR-RAM
16 bit Soundchip with two intergrated speakers
10/100 Mbit fast-ethernet
56K modemv.90.
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depends on the price, I think...0
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couple of hundred?*** Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly ***
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Not a great make, but fine as a occassional laptop for the uses you have described, I wouldn't go above £200.0
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Another question too,...
For the uses described, and with about £200 to spend, would you have any recommendations?
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ye i wouldnt go above 200 myself, as brand new laptops are fairly cheap
nowadays... there is one of these going on ebay at the moment at £240..0 -
I agree (for what it's worth!) These won't run the new Windows Vista due next year (Home version), but XP (I assume it's Windows XP - if not, don't buy!?) should be fine for many years yet, I think.0
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some (not all) of the sony business BX series laptops are very good BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!
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