Medion Refurb Laptops

humph_2

Nice one Tony!!!

mew

Does anyone have any info on these laptops, Especially what type of Memory they take?

Phonix

Please read my post on rpoints about this there are much better deals to be had on NEW laptops. Also As usual I can refer you and you'l get some cash for being referred as will I.

The non referall link is

http://www.rpoints.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=299576#299576

My referral link is below.

Referral Link Removed - Referrals are only permitted on the Referrers board[/q

As I understand your need to remove referral links your actions here have done nothing for the consumer, infact by editing my post you've actually increased the price of the dell laptop by almost £10 but to make matters worse, you've made it so the only people that will benefit from my post are rpoints themselves! Thanks! Considering what I said in my next post I'm quite surprised you allowed the other link to remain.

If this forum is about money saving you should allow peopel to save money by making use of cashback sites, if you deny them this you're not saving them money at all. Infact we have to go back to principles here, we're the one finding the offers and saving people money, the only thing you're doing is giving audience and maintaining a site to post on.

Also if you knew me beter you'd know that I do not post links for my own monetary gain, I cannot help it if by posting that link there's a possibility that I 'may' gain some money, I'm providing this information with no intent to recieve anything back for my efforts.

I'd rather I didn't have to post links to rpoints to save people money, but that is the way things stand at the moment. Using a cashback site is the cheapest way to buy this product.

talkshop

Phonix wrote:

As I understand your need to remove referral links your actions here have done nothing for the consumer, infact by editing my post you've actually increased the price of the dell laptop by almost £10

Just post referrals in the correct place next time..it really is no big deal, apart from denting your own personal profits.

The Dell PC's you mention are not as good as the Medion anyway, as the Dell is only a Celeron, and will just hang up on any serious processing.

Tharweb

I had been checking the Medion site for refurbished laptops for a while but came across a much better (IMHO) offer on a new Acer Centrino for £599, spec as follows -

Intel Centrino Mobile Technology

15 inch XGA (1024x768) TFT

Intel Pentium-M 1.5GHz Processor

IntelPro 2200 Wi-Fi LAN 802.11b/g

256MB DDR SDRAM Memory /40Gb Hard Drive

64Mb ATI Radeon Graphics

DVD+/- ReWrite Drive

56.6Kbps Modem

10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet

MS Windows XP Home

I got mine from my local Staples store but I believe Office World is the same company and Office World have been offering them on-line, on and off since New Year with free delivery.

If you are after a cheap second machine then this may not be for you but otherwise, a decent spec laptop for less than £600.

BTW, a RAM upgrade of a further 256 meg is £30 from Crucial.

Phonix

To repeat part of what I just said.

The only people who are defiantely going to make a profit from the links I posted are rpoints, so why this need to concentrate your comments on my making profits out of them? It's very unlikely that I will have made any money whatsover from the links. The only way I could have done so would have been through people signing up to rpoints through my own rpoints referral link, but again if people were to click the referral link, rpoints would have been the beneficeries of my efforts, not me.

I also made it very clear that I 'might' gain a small amount of money if the new uers were referred through my link but this is only if those people make a reasonably substantial purchase through rpoints, where rpoints yet again earn money.

Just post referrals in the correct place next time..it really is no big deal, apart from denting your own personal profits.

Given everything I have said how have you possibly come to the conclusion that "it's a big deal if it dents my profits"? As I have stated it's a big deal because if I do not post the links to the cashback sites, the consumer will lose money to the corproation. It isn't difficult to understand that in a money saving community, users who try to save money for other users make it a big deal to try and save them as much money as possible. That is supposed to be the ethos of a moneysaving community, ie- to ensure that everyone in the community saves as much money as possible. This requires such efforts and also the effort to argue in favour of use of these cashbacks sites whenever possible as long as a non-profit alternative doesn't exist.

dave2986

Phonix wrote:

T
This is a better alptop for the money. personally I'd steer clear of buying ram to upgrade a laptop, sounds like a major headache infact it may even invalidate your warranty. Celerons really aren't as bad as you're making out, the processors is just a p4 with a smaller cache isn't it?

you wont void your warranty at all, upgrading RAM on a laptop is very easy, Celeron are the worst mainstream cpu you can buy.

Tharweb

Phonix wrote:

To the person above

Spec
Intel Celeron D Processor 335 2.80GHz
533 MHz FSB
256 Kb Cache
512 Mb RAM
40 Gb Hard Drive
DVD ReWriter SuperMulti Drive
15" TFT Display
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
64Mb ATi Mobility Radeon 7000 graphics
1 Year FREE Warranty

official Website
http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/selected_product_option.jsp?service=UK&PRODUCT_ID=100452&DISC_MODEL=0

This is a better alptop for the money. personally I'd steer clear of buying ram to upgrade a laptop, sounds like a major headache infact it may even invalidate your warranty. Celerons really aren't as bad as you're making out, the processors is just a p4 with a smaller cache isn't it?

It's a matter of personal opinion of course but I wouldn't say that the above is better value for money. Comparing a Pentium M Centrino laptop with a dedicated graphics card, wireless capabilities, 5 hours battery life, to one with shared graphics, no wireless capabilities and 1.5 hours battery life?

mew

My Laptop has just arrived so anyone else who has ordered should get theirs soon (was delivered by Night Speed)

mew

Did anyone else get one? If they did has anyone worked out how you upgrade the memory?