PC World Laptop, £199!

yogi3

obsolete products at a clear-out price.
Desktop maybe ok if you upgrade memory.

finallycruising

There are going to be lots of offers and 'bargains' as we get closer to the release of Vista, as manufacturers are dumping machines that won't be able to run it. This particularly applies to laptops as they tend to be less powerful anyway.

Browntoa

this sale actually goes " Live" on the web site in a couple of minutes !!

Browntoa

take it back...countdown went to Zero then went to 1 day 23 hours 59 minutes !!!

webuserisme

pulliptears wrote:

Or add a bit to it and get the fabulous Toshiba Equium from Dixons reduced to £499

'A bit' = £300?

gam3r

As said before - steer well clear of their Via CPU laptops. No good if you want to do more than word proccess.

welshblob

finallycruising wrote:

There are going to be lots of offers and 'bargains' as we get closer to the release of Vista, as manufacturers are dumping machines that won't be able to run it. This particularly applies to laptops as they tend to be less powerful anyway.

For me Vista doesn't matter as XP does what I want it to do so why do I need to upgrade to a bloated operating system that even my 2 year old Dell desktop doesn't meet the minimum spec for?

My brother and parents are running 1Ghz P3's for web surfing, email, document writing and photo editing and it copes fine! What I would say is make sure you upgrade the RAM to at least 512MB for XP.

Rob

AddieB

Has anyone seen this? £99 laptop!

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/product.php?sku=234349

amancalledchip

I agree with others ...your getting exactly what your paying , as with most things .

the biggest improvement , and the cheapest would be to double the RAM to 512MB. ( assuming it hasnt got 2 x 128mb sticks in it)

The performance boost will be really noticable.

Checkout https://www.crucial.com/uk and they have a step by step process of ensuring you get the correct RAM ( called the memory advisor tool)Its guaranteed for life with a 28day no quibble refund if your not happy. ( 7% quidco and a 4% off with a code ...although im unsure if you can use both)

Jakejakejake

AddieB, That must of been a mistake!