Hewlett Packard

WNBRich

My employer has negotiated a special deal with HP of 15% off PCs laptops etc. I'm interested in buying a new PC that will allow my children to play games, but I'm not looking to spend a lot of money. Are HP better than Dell ?

hobo28

Depends who you speak to really.

I'd price up the HP with the discount and compare it against a Dell. Go for the cheapest.

Its like comparing a Vectra and a Mondeo. Both have good/bad points, cost around the same and do the same job. Personally tho I wouldn't touch a Vectra with a bargepole!

marleyboy

Im not a big fan of Dell, mainly because of the cost of upgrading parts, HP products have more variations in upgrading, but both run pretty much as good as the other.

festering_plates

I absolutely love my HP. Had no problems and plays evey game I load into it. Don't like dell as my last laptop was crap but that might be because it was a cheaper model but I would still expect the same customer service which I did not get. The cheapest HP in PC World is the HP DV2045EA which as Intel Core Duo T2300E Processor 1.66GHz.

667 MHz FSB
2MB Cache
1024 MB RAM
100 GB Hard Drive
DVD Rewriter MultiDrive
14.1" Widescreen Display
Microsoft Windows XP Home
128MB Intel 945 Shared Graphics
1 Year FREE Warranty

Very fast ''entertainment'' laptop and looks very good. But its not cheap I'm afraid at 800 but I paid 850 only 6 weeks ago. not pleased.