Dell Inspiron Laptop Bargains (merged threads) [CLOSED]

johnllew

kalico wrote:

As I need two of them i've signed up for this R points thing but can someone tell me first if it is worth bothering with them and second, how on earth do I get the points/money back etc. Someone mentioned £5 per system.

It's well worth bothering with Rpoints. You'll earn 2% cashback on Dell purchases, so if you go for a £450 laptop, that's an extra £9 off each effectively. And if you joined via a referral link*, you'll get an extra £5 cashback to start off with. Once you've reached £5 worth of cashback, you can redeem via PayPal or in Amazon vouchers, or get up to £15 and you can have the money paid into your bank a/c via EggPay - it works very well.

*you'll find more details on this if you click here.

Jay_Wiseman

Howdie wrote:

Has anyone taken a look at the 5160 code 1-N04511? It seems to be a much better spec machine for £575 all in, which is only another £94 extra.

If you afford the extra £94 I would go for this one.


Intel®Pentium® 4 Processor 538 with HT Technology(3.2GHz,533MHz FSB, 1M Cache)+15.0 XGA LC
1 Year European Collect and Return Service
FREE Dell Photo All-In-One Inkjet 922 Printer
1024MB 333MHz DDR RAM (2 x512 MB)
Fixed Internal 24x CDRW/ 8x DVD Combo Drive with Software
64MB nVidia® GeForce FX Go5200 Graphics Card
12 Cell 96WHr LI-ION Primary Battery

slight mistake there mate, that discount code doesnt actually include the cdrw/dvd combo you have to pay another 35.25 for that. so its an extra £129 (£610 total) on the fully kitted out inspiron 1150 deal mentioned earlier. It is a better system, though has a smaller hard drive. The laptop is physically the same size as the 1150 as it uses the same basic case, but it does have a few extra features.

Pros of this system over the previous mentioned 1150 deal:
better battery
slightly better graphics card
slightly better screen quality
s-video port
better processor
faster memory
faster 'ata' hard drive

cons
£129 extra
Smaller hard drive (40 gig not 60 gig)

Overall Id say these deals are pretty well matched, depends what your after.

Howdie

Jay_Wiseman wrote:

slight mistake there mate, that discount code doesnt actually include the cdrw/dvd combo you have to pay another 35.25 for that. so its an extra £129 (£610 total) on the fully kitted out inspiron 1150 deal mentioned earlier. It is a better system, though has a smaller hard drive. The laptop is physically the same size as the 1150 as it uses the same basic case, but it does have a few extra features.

Pros of this system over the previous mentioned 1150 deal:
better battery
monitor out port
s-video port
better processor
faster memory
faster 'ata' hard drive

cons
£129 extra
Smaller hard drive (40 gig not 60 gig)

Overall Id say these deals are pretty well matched, depends what your after.

Sorry missed the cost of the DVD/CDRW drive

Jay_Wiseman

yup thought so. still a good price.

Howdie

Jay_Wiseman wrote:

yup thought so. still a good price.

Yep my mistake and apologies to you:D

Jay_Wiseman

ive edited the list differences to these two deals, seems the graphics card and screen quality is better on the 5160. ive already ordered 2 of the 1150 but i may scrap one of these (if i can cancel it?) and order one of the 5160 deal as there are a fair few improvements for £129 (bar the hard drive size.)

Goat

with the inspron 5160 code 1-N04511 you can remove the "Multimedia Audio/Video Cable Kit" to save £29

So it's £100 more than the 1150.

Jay_Wiseman

good spot!!!! I think its a better deal than the 1150, theres a lot of enhancments, well worth the extra £100.

Jay_Wiseman

edited difference list.

Pros & cons of the 5160 (1-N04511) system over the previous mentioned 1150 (305-N04112) deal:

better longer life battery
better 'dedicated' (not onboard) graphics card
better screen quality
added s-video port
faster processor
faster memory

cons
£99 extra
Smaller hard drive (40 gig not 60 gig)

In my opinion the improvements in the 5160 system is well worth the extra £99 even though the hard drive is 20 gigs smaller. Though both deals are very very good.

calibrax

Brown_Hacker wrote:

I would guess that a fan will always be runing on the 2.8. I noticed that the 2.4 uses a 65w adapter and the 2.8 needs a 90w. nearly 50% more power!

The 2.8 is a mobile processor, so it won't always run at that speed - it will only be that speed when it needs to (i.e. its doing a lot of work). The rest of the time it will run at half speed to save power - that's when the fan will not need to run 100% of the time.

Steve