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The cheapest NEW laptop you can get

avantra
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I bought a good specification new laptop from Ebuyer.co.uk last week.
It is a PcChips G535 Notebook with AMD Athlon 1.2GHz CPU, 256MB DDR RAM 40GB Hard disk, DVD/CDRW combo, WLAN + Windows XP Home

All for £422.99, last time I looked they still had 200 units in stock.

I think for a new laptop this is amazing price.
The laptop works fine out of the box.
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  • avantra
    avantra Posts: 1,333 Forumite
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    By the way to find this laptop: Quickfind code: 84444

    How does a 40 GIG HDD is better value than 30GIG and DVD ROM when the former is £10 cheaper?, this is a mobile CPU laptop and the Dell is a regular CPU laptop therefore might be more power hungry and get hotter.
    Just a thought :)
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  • alanrowell
    alanrowell Posts: 5,389 Forumite
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    Dell Inspiron 1000 is £410 inc vat, delivery & 1 year RTB guarantee

    14" screen, 2.2GHz celeron processor, 256mb DDR RAM, 30GB hard drive, CD/DVD optical drive.

    So that's £12.99 cheaper
  • markdavies1978
    markdavies1978 Posts: 20 Forumite
    I think this one from Comet is good value, friend bought it the other day.

    http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/228230.html
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  • northerntiger
    northerntiger Posts: 70 Forumite
    Dell Inspiron 1000 is £410 inc vat, delivery & 1 year RTB guarantee

    14" screen, 2.2GHz celeron processor, 256mb DDR RAM, 30GB hard drive, CD/DVD optical drive.


    Looks hi spec to me
  • markdavies1978
    markdavies1978 Posts: 20 Forumite
    Does the Dell have mobiile technology though?

    Not bad though.
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    A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
    the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
  • paullwill8
    paullwill8 Posts: 488 Forumite
    alanrowell wrote:
    Dell Inspiron 1000 is £410 inc vat, delivery & 1 year RTB guarantee

    14" screen, 2.2GHz celeron processor, 256mb DDR RAM, 30GB hard drive, CD/DVD optical drive.

    So that's £12.99 cheaper

    I would rather pay the extra for the amd than the celeron, these celerons are useless, also 40 gig versus 30 gig hdd.
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  • markdavies1978
    markdavies1978 Posts: 20 Forumite
    The Acer lap top is Intel M tecnology, better than celeron.
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    A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
    the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
  • £$&*"($£&(
    £$&*"($£&( Posts: 4,538 Forumite
    Those nasty old 128kb cache Celerons are certainly worth paying to avoid and certainly the AMD is a better option. That Comet one is a very good price and if you want cheaper and more modern get one with a celeron-M like this one:

    http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/320_232823.html

    There's not a huge diference between a 1.5ghz Celeron-M and a 1.6hz Pentium-M.
  • b44rch
    b44rch Posts: 128 Forumite
    grahawk wrote:
    There's not a huge diference between a 1.5ghz Celeron-M and a 1.6hz Pentium-M.

    I think you'll find that there IS a huge difference between a celeron M and a pentium M - never mind the clock speed, a pentium M has a massive level 2 cache (2 mb) while a celeron M only has 512 kb. This makes a enormous difference when doing multimedia stuff, like editing digital photos or movies.

    Why do you think there's such a price difference between the 2 processors?
    No reliance should be placed on the above.
  • Cuppatea_3
    Cuppatea_3 Posts: 354 Forumite
    This thread doesn't make sense in places now because at least one of the earlier posts (I think it was originally post #2) has been deleted, eg post about Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. Why was it deleted?
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