anyone got any recomendations



i only surf the net really, dont really down load anything



would probably get from pc world, currys etc, etc...


if you could recomend stuff i should be looking for would be much appreciated (dont get too technical )


would be looking at spending a max of £500 all in


thanks in advance



gus

 

get an HP/Compaq model, rock solid, good value for money


Don't buy a Vaio, shite, overpriced, stupid reflecty screen, come with loads of shite software installed, hard to get parts for...the list of reasons not to buy one is as long as your arm.

I work for an IT reseller/support company, we support thousands of laptops, and it's usually the sony ones we have problems with.

Don't buy anything with a Celeron chip in it either, utter waste of time

 

cheers dude


any particular one you could recomend, or they all pretty much the same

 

Good advice above, if you stick to that you cant go far wrong
Although if you only have a couple of high street shops to pick from your not going have alot to choose

 

well i mean i dont buy online


dont really know any other places to get one from, looking to go get it tomorrow after work so would need to be a late opening store / shop

 

there's the usual places on the hih street to be honest, but you'll be paying over the odds. if you dont mind, then currys (dixons), pc world, staples etc, argos probably sell them too.

i'll see if i can see anything of decent spec.

To be honest, if it's only for web browsing, you probably don't even need to spend as much as £500 mate.

 

http://www.staples.co.uk/eng/Catalog...affixedcode=WW

That will be fine for you, nice looking machine. Vista Basic, 80gb HDD, 512mb RAM, DVD-RW etc £425 + vat

 

superb



i thankyou

 

Wanna sell me your old one Gus?

 

could do


will let you know when i get a new one

 

so that link did post, when i posted it it sat there for about 10 minutes and then phpBB errored on me and wouldnt let me back in

 

right chaps


i finally mangaed to get time to get down there, unfortunatatly trhe staff was no wear to be seen


questions i do have thou



whats vista like? this or xp?

do i get that intel centurion or what ever the others was (think it might not be centurion but something close)? whats the best


what sort of memory do i need? (i only browse the net really)

 

Get a free one for signing upto orange broadband for 2 years at £14.99 a month with PcWorld or Currys.

 

Get a 2nd hand sony vaio

also, 512mb for vista

 

Jemmayeah i see you post the other day

just dont fancy paying for a contract

 

get a dell xps great value for money and top class spec

 

are you on crack? they are fookin shite!

I've never known anything so flimsy and unreliable as a Sony Vaio. Performance isn't great either.

512mb will be fine for vista basic, i had ultimate running on an athlon 3200 with 512mb DDR and it was fine. Only thing it struggled with was dvd maker, as that thrashes the nuts off it. that isnt included with vista basic anyway. I've now got athlon 64 with 1gb running ultimate and it flies

1GB would be preferable but for web browsing and general messing about it'll be fine. you can always buy an additional stick and bang it in there.

 

DONT GET VISTA FFS


its shite my new vaio had it installed, for various reasons you will discover its crap if you get it


ive just got xp installed now and am much happier, i will change to vista agan when they have released and fully tested the first service pack

 

Vista's not crap, it's just everyone installs XP stuff on it then complains it doesn't work right

 

no it has terrible issues with wireless its shite for email, its slow to loadup, forget using any older software for xp etc as majour issues, im not saying its crap crap its just like xp was when it was first released, for nopw stick with xp and maybe in 6 mths to a year then go vista. but for now


ITS CRAP

 

Viruses
Intruders
Spyware
Trojans
Adware

 

carphone warehouse are doing a free dell laptop when you sign up to a aol broadband 18month

think its 7.99 for 3 months then 14.99 for the other 15

so £248 in total over 18 months

J

 

that will be the shite drivers for your wireless card, not a problem with vista.

I've got Vista PC and laptop running on wireless with not a single issue.

Pc has an ABit PCI-X wireless card in it (which dogsmoke (above) also has running on vista with no problems), and laptop has Broadcom 802.11 b/g chips....not had a single issue with it.

Update your drivers.

 

I dont get this...i thought CPW owned TalkTalk? e.g. one of AOL's competitors?

 

im just going by the fact sooo many people have had the same issues and sooooo many ppl in the it game are staying with xp, says enough for me

 

I'm in the "IT Game" and the only problems with Vista i've found are the stupid user account control thing, an issue after installing itunes when your cdrom's disappear out of device manager (fixed in latest itunes) and problems with third party software, which is hardly microsofts fault.

Beta's have been out for ages, and if third party software houses havent bothered to test and fix their software it's their own fault. Yet everyone blames Vista for the fact that some flaky shitty bit of XP software doesnt work with Vista.

 

Get an Acer Travelmate

We've had over 100 and had very little problems at all other than 1 dodgy harddrive

 

i bought one of these about a month ago:

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/stor...ory_oid=-27405

cant falt it, spot on


rubbish, i have never had a computer that was so simple to connect to the wireless and it loads up in under 30 seconds, to me thats pretty good?

 

shite for email? err.... what?

If you are using windows mail that's just a slightly less shit version of Outlook Express, which in all honesty, was shite too.

Though if your wireless isn;t working, your email won't work either...funny that

Your not saying it's crap...but then you say it's crap?

 

buy my Dell Inspiron 6000 mate check the spec and il do u a v good price

fook good laptop so dam fast and the wireless is good too i got 1gig ram on it and its a smooth laptop with good graphics

 

Orange are doing a free laptop for £14.99 a month on their broadband offer.

 

you cant use hotmal email accounts etc on it, its just not stable yet all the businesses i know that went over have gone back to xp, hey its just my opinoin and im entitled to it, but the general opinion from what i can tell is its shite. sorry if ive offended you m8

lee

ps ive started a new thread with a poll to get the general opinion

 

dunno why everyone is dissing vaio, i love 'em and wouldn't buy anything less, but having said that i doubt you'd get one for the stated £500 anyway

don't like vista myself, would rather still have XP, especially if it means the laptop costs less

 

I install servers and networks for small/medium businesses and the stability issues are with 3rd party software, such as accounting packages (Sage, Opera, Quickbooks etc), BACS packages, bespoke business apps etc. If the people who wrote this software and pulled their fingers out and done proper beta testing these issues wouldnt be as serious.

A big problem i've found is with account packages that create invoices using a PDF printer (like MS office image write type thing)

Vista doesn't support kernel drivers, which these virtual pdf printers use. Amyuni are soon to sort this but the software packages have to include these updates before the problems get fixed

 

I can vouch for that,my xps is one of the highest spec you can get and its awesome It plays any game and is very quick.

mark