Misprice on NEC Laptop - £300 instead of £600?

scottgreenwood

Noticed this today whilst looking for a good laptop deal:

PC World Buisness has got the NEC GENERATION CEL-M360 recorded twice on their home page. The specs are as follows:

http://www.nec-computers.co.uk/Product/p_products.asp?Id_ProDis=3894


Comprehensive embedded security
Biometric fingerprint recognition
Indelibly marked hardware
Large 14" WXGA Wide TFT screen
3 Years anti theft insurance
Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370
Genuine Windows® XP Home
14" WXGA Widescreen Display
512MB DDR-RAM
40GB Hard Drive
DVD-RW Drive
56K Modem & 10/100/1000Mb LAN
Wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
12 Months Pick-Up, Repair & Return Warranty

On the PCW website there is the following:

NEC Generation Education Celeron Notebook

NEC Generation EDU Travel Cel-M360 512 40 14" DVDRW FGRPRT WLAN Home
Product Features

Designed specifically for schools, giving you the security of unique integrated fingerprint technology, managed anti-virus, theft insurance and internet tracking, plus hardware marking, the NEC Generation Notebook is the future of school ICT.

* Thin & light (easy to carry in schoolbag)
* Large 14" TFT screen
* Comprehensive embedded security - Fingerprint, Stoptrack and Webtrack
* True connectivity (Wifi, BT, IRDA, IEEE)
* Extended battery life
* Unique design with special badge
* Managed antivirus solution
* Stop/track/web track and a backpack carry case

For £600 + VAT AND...

NEC GENERATION CEL-M360 512 40 14IN DVDRW FGRPRT WLAN HOME

NEC GENERATION CEL-M360 512 40 14IN DVDRW FGRPRT WLAN HOME
Product Features

Now HALF PRICE! Whilst our stocks last! Save £300, was £599

Giving you the security of unique integrated fingerprint technology, managed anti-virus software, 3 years theft insurance and internet tracking,

plus hardware marking, and even a backpack carry case!

* Celeron M 360 processor, 512MB memory, 40GB Hard Drive, 14" Widescreen display, DVD-RW drive, Windows XP Home
* Thin & light (easy to carry all day)
* Large 14" widescreen TFT screen
* Comprehensive embedded security - Fingerprint, Stoptrack and Webtrack
* True connectivity (Wifi, BT, IRDA, IEEE)
* 3 years theft insurance
* Unique design with special anti theft badge
* Managed antivirus solution

£299 + VAT

It says this is half priced whilst stocks last but surely this is a mistake!!

Review: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/92086/nec-generation-a.html

Tallymanjohn

http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/NECNB185

caverncity

doubt it is a mis price but still a good deal. if you froogle your heading you will find a few suppliers at £299 plus vat

http://www.microwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/NECNB185?speedtrapid=froogle&utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=pcc&lead=froogle

Clasics

I concur, looks like PCWorld have just reduced theirs in accordance with other suppliers, but inadvertantly left the other page up?

http://www.nextag.co.uk/NEC-Generation-EDU-Travel-505728764/uk/prices-html

pks00

Is this the laptop by any chance? I couldnt really find any decent size pics

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this one at £619 + VAT

I checked out PCWorld and its £599 from the nexttag link

but 1st link http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/NECNB185 says its £299
and 2nd link via nexttag is £599, http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/NECNB179?speedtrapid=nextag&lead=nextag-pcwb

wots going on

JasonW_2

Well it does say Now HALF PRICE! Whilst our stocks last! Save £300, was £599 so I'm guessing it's an offer but the full price one shouldn't be there. HMV do this instore, if an item is in the sale it's normally at full price elsewhere in the story which is very sneaky if you happen to pick up the full price item, they won't tell you it's cheaper in the sale.

J

withabix

The thing is, it's only worth about £300 + VAT in current market anyway.

Fingerprint security isn't worth anything unless you're on a security sensitive busoness network anyway. If Someone wants to steal your data from your laptop, they will just remove the hard drive anyway...

Repo

Check out the equivalent Dell Inspiron 1300 machine and you'll find that £300+vat is par for the course.

pks00

Dell comes with built in fireworks does it not?
or at least thats what I think the batteries that blow up do anyway

kondormid

The battery recall was first announced by Dell that is true. It is a problem with certain Sony Batteries however and has nothing to do with Dell.

Dell was first, then Apple. Last Friday Toshiba recalled 830,000 and Fujitsu recalled an undisclosed number. Lenovo and IBM recalled just over 500,000 Friday. A dozen OEM manufacturers have been told to recall the batteries too.

The reason I am pointing this out is if you have a laptop you should visit your manufacturers website to check if your laptop is effected.

Wouldn't like to be the person who let these batteries go out the factory would you Sony is in big trouble.

wywywywy

Repo wrote:

Check out the equivalent Dell Inspiron 1300 machine and you'll find that £300+vat is par for the course.

The is very untrue. The Dell one is far inferior!!

This NEC has got twice the memory, a DVD rewriter, Wi-fi, bluetooth, firewire, and very light & slim.