JAL Computers have let me down- HELP!!!!

MoneyMachine_2

Hi, I posted on here a while back:

Hi, my sister and her boyfriend have £500 to spend on a PC.
They have two young kids the oldest of whom is 5. they would like to use the PC for kiddy games and stuff aswell as Broadband surfing and word processing as my sister is doing a distance learning course.

They ae wanting to put their music and photos etc on it so a package with a photo printer, speakers, XP home, etc would be ideal.

Anyone seen a great package to fulfil this criteria.
I'm not sure whether to buy a good base unit and source the peripherals seperately or not.
Also, I realise a CRT would probably save quite a bit of cash.
Whats the general opinion on RAM?? 256 or 512??
It needs to be pre-installed as they won't be keen on upgrading or anything and I live at the opposite end of the country so can't help either.

Packaged software isn't really necessary as I can give them any of mine that they like, so long as XP is included.

Grateful for all your ideas!!!!

PS: I'm also on the market for a business laptop. Budget is about £550 - £700 and I intend on selling it and upgrading after a year.
What's the best around in that price range - I'm looking towards ACER at the mo' anyone know when there knew models are due to be released???

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Received lots of great advice and eventually decided on JAL - WHAT A MISTAKE!!!!

I ordered a Jal Jenny system off them for £509 (upgraded on website) on 26th January.
After countles delays was finally told delivery would be on 18th March. Called them the day before to confirm and was told some rubbish about them not having any operating systems so although the PC was ready to be shipped they would have to wait until Saturday to put an operating system in.
I was then PROMISED that it would be despatched on Monday and would arrive today (Tuesday.) A day off work later and no PC.
Called Jal and some monkey told me the PC was still being built!!!!
Told him about operating system etc and he had no idea what I was talking about "No, it hasn't been built yet."
Asked why it hadn't been built - didn't know
Asked why I had been lied to - didn't know
Asked when it would be built - didn't know
Asked when to expect it - didn't know

No apologies - nothing - 2 months completely wasted by these blithering fools and they didn't even have the courtesy to pologise so I cancelled the order - I am so angry with these fools.

So can anybody tell me where I can go to pick up a PC off the shelf for about £500???
Spec should be: 15" TFT, 512md RAM, 128mb or more Graphics card, decent processor about 2.8ghz ish AMD or Pentium.

I would be very grateful if I could pick one up as soon as poss - can't believe I have been so badly let down by JAL : (

Thanks very much for any help and I hope none of u bother suffer the same misfortune with these people that I have!!!

Betty_Boop

Nice little laptop here for under £480

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=85599

lellie

erm.. I dunno.. I woulkd never buy a pc of the shelf.. that's the first tip.

where are you - micro direct and aria both do decent spec specials ready built..

or you could order from dabs or something?