LATEST DELL DEAL Great Laptop £292 Delivered !

grayme-m

gromituk wrote: »

Can you expand on this please? Microsoft certainly wouldn't supply OpenOffice as it's the elephant in the room they don't want you to know about. Does Dell sling it on instead? If so, finally something useful bundled by Dell!

Okay ambiguous!

Open office is a free alternative, this laptop comes with Vista.

I tried Open Office but found that my formulae from my first spreadsheet I tried didn't work, using SUMPRODUCT in a 3d array style Removed Open Office shortly afterwards.

Personally my issue with Vista is that it isn't ready yet, I will upgrade when it is.

shane8961

Anybody got any idea how this lappy (with TK53 processor) would stack up against a:

Inspiron 6400,
Core 2 Duo Processor T5500,
1024MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
Intel Media Accelerator 950 Graphics Up to 256MB
Everything else more or less the same (same size screen, Hd, battery etc)

Whichever machine I get I will be upgrading to 2gb RAM after purchase.

Main things its going to be used for is Photoshop and converting divx to dvd aswell as general net usage.

Cheers, Shane

silverfoxuk

I have been on the dell website comparing this offer (Vostrom) with the equivalent Inspiron 6400 and 1501.

With the same spec chosen, the Vostro comes out much cheaper?

Same processor, RAM, screen size, Vista:

Vostro 100NB £292.57
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&fb=1&l=en&oc=N0710002

Inspiron 1501 £398.99
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=NRS15012&l=en&oc=N0715015A&rbc=N0715015A&s=dhs&sbc=ukdhsrsinspn_1501_2

Inspiron 6400 £429.00
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=N4XENT01&l=en&oc=N07646&rbc=N07646&s=dhs&~ck=expbuy3

(NB Inspiron 6400 comes with better Processor dual core 1.73GHz + Vista Premium as standard can't downgrade to basic like other two l'tops)

Looks like the Vostro deal is pretty good?

stphnstevey

Is there a good website were you can easily compare the speed of all these different processors now? (there are so many!)

gromituk

silverfoxuk wrote: »

Sadly familiarity. My wife will use this laptop as well, and she uses Office apps at work.

I think you may find that the jump to Office 2007 from previous versions is as difficult to make as the jump to OpenOffice.

I haven't seen open office so might google it to have a look at some screenshots.

It's only the 100MB download that is preventing you from actually using it for real. I do urge you to try it. Not only will you be saving a lot of money, but your documents will be saved in open file formats that will guarantee that you will always be able to access them, unlike the closed formats Microsoft uses.

Won't MS stop supporting XP in a few years?

A few years is a long time in computing!

eagles131

ordered delivery 30 July , Thanks OP

grayme-m

eagles131 wrote: »

ordered delivery 30 July , Thanks OP

Ordered today?

I ordered last night and expected delivery is 6 August!

gromituk

grayme-m wrote: »

I tried Open Office but found that my formulae from my first spreadsheet I tried didn't work, using SUMPRODUCT in a 3d array style Removed Open Office shortly afterwards.

Sounds like a fairly esoteric (but nevertheless important!) bug. Did you submit a bug report? Without doing that, it's quite possible no-one else will notice and the bug won't be fixed. If you do, the bug very likely will be fixed. Just because the software's free doesn't mean you get no support. Has there been a later version of OO since?

By the way, some of the formula definitions in the new OOXML formats MS is desperately trying to get "standardised" are completely wrong: see http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/formula-for-failure.html.

lorraine

lorraine wrote: »

Hi all, I'm trying to buy this but doing it through quidco, but when I click on the link from quidco I cannot find it, any ideas

can anyone help, i'd be extremely greatful :beer:

sas401

Have just recieved an e mail from currys and there seems to a great offer listed on it. If you sign up to orange broadband for 24 months, you get £300 off any laptop. I have just taken a look and you have to buy it instore but with my calculations you should pick up a laptop for under £50. Ideal for anyone needing to start out a new broadband connection. I have put the link below.

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/editorial/orange_broadband?camp_id=email12