Decent laptop 289.99 for first 250 cust [CLOSED]

averi

Hi
I am in process of setting up broadband onthis laptop.Can some one suggest hhow to have networking. I understand I have to buy a router and a wireless card for this laptop.can you tell me where to buy them cheaper. i am with aol broadband.
Thanks

sheffix

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would benefit from the wisdom of others (or maybe I am ) And as all the units will be identical, any advise should be real useful, ie.... "I bought X, installed it in Y, n it works if ya do Z"

Agreed, I'm in exactly the same position hence my earlier questions about the mini PCI card versus the PC card version. Some people on here have already explained how to get rid of Norton and I'm sure we could swap experiences with other aspects of the laptop. Question would be where to set up the discussion....

Tojo_Ralph

I thought a thread in Techie Stuff would work?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.html?f=29

Perhaps titled Packard Bell Easy Note E6100 ? Easy to find in future searches, and after all... Tech issues / Upgrades, etc will be an ongoing issue for some time to come.

MyUserNamesTaken

Tojo_Ralph wrote:

I still cannot find the PNY 256MB DDR P2700 200-Pin SO DIMM for £22 online

Tojo, I think the ram is only available in store for that price. I bought mine when I went to pick my laptop up - there was a huge sign over the display stating that it was half price.

GibsonSt19

Hmm, I'm a little confused, however this is becoming a regular occurance!

I grabbed some of the PNY RAM, installed it and started the lappy up.

Went to Control Panel, System, then to the General tab to check the RAM had been recognised. Hooraay! It had, however I did notice that the process was listed as being a Sempron 2600+, 801mhz.

Should this be? Could someone else check in there to see whether theirs states the same or not?

Thanks lots

gibbajabba

GibsonSt19 wrote:

Hmm, I'm a little confused, however this is becoming a regular occurance!

I grabbed some of the PNY RAM, installed it and started the lappy up.

Went to Control Panel, System, then to the General tab to check the RAM had been recognised. Hooraay! It had, however I did notice that the process was listed as being a Sempron 2600+, 801mhz.

Should this be? Could someone else check in there to see whether theirs states the same or not?

Thanks lots

Yep mine is the same 801mhz,amd processor names are confusing,dont know why they do this.

GibsonSt19

gibbajabba wrote:

Yep mine is the same 801mhz,amd processor names are confusing,dont know why they do this.

But shouldn't it say 1600mhz? Or 1.6ghz?

On this desktop I'm using now, it has a 2800+ Athlon, and is shown as being 2.02ghz.

Anyone think that perhaps the laptops are not set up properly?

If so, I've had a look through the BIOS, and there's nothing to even suggest clock speeds and multipliers etc.

Argggh

calibrax

Ok, here's why.

It's a MOBILE processor.

What this means is that it is a processor designed for laptops - it will run at 1.6GHz (which is the max speed of the Sempron 2600+) but only when needed. The rest of the time it will run at a slower speed (in this case 50% slower, i.e. 800MHz) to conserve battery power.

Hope this helps!

Steve

GibsonSt19

calibrax wrote:

Ok, here's why.

It's a MOBILE processor.

What this means is that it is a processor designed for laptops - it will run at 1.6GHz (which is the max speed of the Sempron 2600+) but only when needed. The rest of the time it will run at a slower speed (in this case 50% slower, i.e. 800MHz) to conserve battery power.

Hope this helps!

Steve

Certainly does.

Itelligence eh? One day I'll get some.

It's my first outing with a portable computer, so it's another learning area really.

I'll get ther....patience, patience.

Thanks lots

calibrax

I also should mention that AMD processors, if you are unfamiliar with them, have a slightly confusing naming convention. The name is not related to the clock speed of the chip, but to it's overall performance when measured against an Intel processor.

So for example :

A 2.0GHz Pentium 4 is roughly equivalent in speed to an AMD Athlon XP2000 (but the Athlon runs at 1.67GHz).

A 2.8GHz Celeron is roughly equivalent in speed to an AMD Sempron 2800+ (but the Sempron runs at 1.6GHz).

Remember, that a PC's speed cannot be reliably measured just by the clock speed of the processor - a lot of other factors need to be taken into account, such as the amount of cache memory on the chip, etc.

Hope this helps.

Steve