PC World Laptop, £199!

Johntea

Spend £100 more and get a much more decent spec laptop!

Same for the desktop

trl002

blueroo wrote:

Would this be good enough for just surfing? or will it be really slow at that as well. My inlaws are looking for one and as its their first computer literally all they want it for it to access the net. Dont know wether to recommend or not. Any advice? would be grateful.

It will be ok to just surf the Net, but put office on it and you will be pushing the limits! It uses the bare min requirements to run windows Xp so don't expect it to do a lot at once, these are cheap machines, but if you are just going to surf the net and do the odd email than it is fine!

rthirlby

From Dell Outlet for £280ish delivered:

Inspiron 1300 (System Identifier. DDATC6WB)

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System Price £242.01

Operating System: Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
Memory: 256MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM(1x256)
Hard Disk Drive: 40GB (5400rpm) IDE Hard Drive
NoteBook Screen: 14.1 inch WXGA (1280x800) LCD Panel (Widescreen )
Modem: Internal 56K Modem
DVD Drive: 24xCDRW/8xDVDComboDrive
MISC: Global - Dell Wireless 1370 802.11b/g Mini PCI Card
60W AC Adapter
UK/Ire - Internal Keyboard



Much better deal !!!

Benefits from a processor thats far superior to the Via CPU, it uses DDR2 memory instead of normal DDR, has WIFI, and has a nice widescreen display

blueroo

rthirlby wrote:

From Dell Outlet for £280ish delivered:

Inspiron 1300 (System Identifier. DDATC6WB)

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System Price £242.01

Operating System: Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
Memory: 256MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM(1x256)
Hard Disk Drive: 40GB (5400rpm) IDE Hard Drive
NoteBook Screen: 14.1 inch WXGA (1280x800) LCD Panel (Widescreen )
Modem: Internal 56K Modem
DVD Drive: 24xCDRW/8xDVDComboDrive
MISC: Global - Dell Wireless 1370 802.11b/g Mini PCI Card
60W AC Adapter
UK/Ire - Internal Keyboard



Much better deal !!!

Benefits from a processor thats far superior to the Via CPU, it uses DDR2 memory instead of normal DDR, has WIFI, and has a nice widescreen display

Vat on top though. So coming in at £320+

MyUserNamesTaken

gaming_guy wrote:

no wonder they are so cheap!!

the processor's aren't very fast (i think you mean Ghz!)

nicked the specs from another website..didn't check that bit. Changed accordingly now, though.

Personally, I wouldn't bother with either machine. Better can be had for a little more cash.

Miser_maz

Save me going out and buying a paper, anyone know what other offers will be on?

glyn_s

I don't know how some manufacturers have the cheek to only put 256 ram in a machine nowadays - it might have been okay with windows 98 but not xp

joshm_2

I tend to disagree with some of the posts above and think it's a perfectly ok machine for straightforward, everyday use like surfing, word processing etc. Of course you won'r be able to run flashy games on it. I can't vouch for the screen quality etc as I've not seen it. Win XP Home will run ok on it (especially if you turn off some/all of the visual window handling - shadows, fading etc) and it should only take up a few GB of disk space. If you can get one for £199 I'd say you've done well.

shak2

I've had a good look at the specs and I have to say, with this deal you are getting exactly what you pay for.

Please do consider adding a few pounds, and getting a better one as these are pretty terrible specs.

Those who have used both an average and a crap pc or laptop will know how much of a difference it can make...

Shak

rogerramjet

Err...the laptop is cheap, it will run windows XP and will need to as it has it installed on it!

Why are people knocking it because of the processor, hard drive and memory....OK, its not going to be the fastest thing out there, but it is more than capable of surfing the net, running office programs (get open office...its free and will do all what microsoft office does but not slow the system down). also as joshm states it won't run flashy games (but then a lot of laptops won't unless they have dedicated graphics cards) but will be more than capable of running older games...which to be honest, if you can only afford a cheaper spec laptop then it will be cheaper older games you will be buying.

As a point of comparison, I have an old Toshiba Satillite Pro 4300 laptop, it has a 600mhz intel celeron processor, 6gb hard drive and 198mb ram. It runs XP perfectly well (it struggled when I only had 64mb ram) and also micrsoft office. it plays older games ok and is speedy enough for most tasks. Surfing the net is also not a problem with it.

I can't comment on the build quality, however; it will have a warrenty the same as any other laptop and even if you have a big brand name one it can still have faults.