PC World Laptop, £199!

youngwilly

This is a genuine bargain for those looking for a cheap laptop. As a 'techie' I have to say that some of the comments regarding this latop have been way over the top. To describe this as comparable to a '10 year old laptop' shows a complete lack of knowledge of computers (10 years ago you would have had a 386 processor with a 60Mhz processor if you were buying top of the range, and costing over £2000). Unless you intend to download and store lots of whole films or thousands of music files then a 20Gb hard drive is more than ample for most uses.

I would buy this for £199 and add as much memory as the board allows (1Gb if possible) which would cost around £50 or less- the machine would then run Microsoft Office 2003 comfortably (mine runs on a slower laptop). For £250 you would have a laptop that would have cost you over £1000 a year ago.

Jakejakejake

The PC World sale is now on!

youngwilly

oh and Windows Vista is a waste of space as far as I am concerned - it is basically Windows XP with the new aero-glass 'look' that most people will turn off when they see how much it cripples their system, irrespective of how fast a processor they have.

Expect to see Vista heavily discounted in the second half of 2007 as sales fail to take off.

uk1981

Is this instore only as I can't find it on the site.

pulliptears

'A bit' = £300?

Yes, but to be honest its worthwhile adding the extra, saving up, or even taking out Dixons interest free for 10 months.

Having bought a "cheap" laptop this time last year I know well the pitfalls, as has been mentioned here "you get what you pay for". My "cheap" laptop had a harddrive, power supply and motherboard all die within months. Each time it was sent away for repair, being away for 3 weeks or so at a time.

It was slow, it wouldnt run any of the kids games (the sims being one) and it struggled to cope with Paintshop Pro I was using for college. After the motherboard died Dixons conceeded defeat and I put some money to it and bought my Toshiba.

The difference is immense, as someone said earlier in the thread you can tell the difference when you have used both.

navig8r

The add in todays paper says £199 is a voucher price which I assume is the add its self as is states "take this into store"

Dave

Zinger549

You'd be better of getting a cheap one from somewhere like Dell. You can get one for £300-400 that will be much better than this one.
Plus It's PC World

youngwilly

pulliptears wrote:

Yes, but to be honest its worthwhile adding the extra, saving up, or even taking out Dixons interest free for 10 months.

Dixons interest free deals usually cost a fortune in interest!

If you have £500 or more to spend on a laptop buy a Toshiba or a Dell, (or if you can afford it, a Sony Vaio) but if you only have £350 buy an Acer at Tescos, and if all you can afford is £200 buy this from PC World. Simple really.

pulliptears

Dixons interest free deals usually cost a fortune in interest!

Have to ask how? Didnt cost me any extra??

If you have £500 or more to spend on a laptop buy a Toshiba or a Dell

Yep, bought a Toshiba, fabulous Lappie. Avoid Fujitsu Siemens like the plague

trl002

youngwilly wrote:

oh and Windows Vista is a waste of space as far as I am concerned - it is basically Windows XP with the new aero-glass 'look' that most people will turn off when they see how much it cripples their system, irrespective of how fast a processor they have.

Expect to see Vista heavily discounted in the second half of 2007 as sales fail to take off.

I agree! i heard that vista will be able to spy into your pc hard drive and will report if you have any "fake" stuff on there!