I know fook all I only wanna buy a cheapo one for my little sister.

 

They good for the money! We get them on the ship

 

Depends what she wants it to do.

Dell support is shite...

Cheap decent make is ACER - really depends on money and spec though...

 

I used to work for them, and I like them.

cheapo ones will still be cheapo ones though.
Just get a good warranty out on it ?
As when a laptop fails it's almost always the motherboard that need changing, and that's half the pc, so best have warranty.

And if your little sis is very little get a full cover on it, so when she throws it somewhere it gets replaced.

 

We have no trouble at work with dell support,
used to have some trouble sometimes though,

and don't forget it's hardware support really, so when you're calling for little problems with programs it really depends who you got on the phone
some might be helpfull, some not.

So if you don't know shit about pc's, buy it from a local shop so you can harras them everytime you get a popup window or can't understand something when trying to install a program

 

Products ok. But as Dingy said, support is shite. Its a call centre in ireland and you can spend hours just going round and round and round and round.........

 

Lee,
This is Warren's field, speak to him AND he can get you a good deal on one .

 

First off dont listen to Dingy Acer r shit might as well buy AMD chip set he will be saying next

seriously Buy Dell there cheap and yet get a good spec if she has the money get Intel Centrino chip as gives good battery life and and wireless as for support you must know someone in IT that can help if she has problems

if you have the bosh the dell Latitude D410 r good but about 700 squid

spec wise

intel centrino
20-40gb drive is fine if not playing games
at least 512MB memory (more if she is impatient)

the smaller the laptop generally the more expensive they are

 

HP nx6125 AMD 64 Blue tooth wirless card readers finger print login and lots more Ł575

just bough 5 of them they are the dogs for the price

 

dont buy AMD

Intel all the way but centrino else you get pants battery time

 

Support is not that shite but if you don't know your way around pc's they have to go through every step by phone and it can take a looonnggg time...

Most support for everything are call centres nowadays anyway.

 

Yep Intel Centrino always for laptops, great battery time

 

why kev give me a good reason why?

 

Oh yeah,

first decide if she really needs a laptop...

If it's just to sit in a corner of a room and don't take too much space,
a nice desktop with flat panel is a better option, more for your money...

 

and if u need software there are ways

 

I am still waiting for the reason Kev?

 

i beg to differ. I work in IT so am pretty confident i can find my way around a pc.... and yet i spent 2 days trying to get WARRANTY support from them. only when my director threatened copying in the press on all further emails did they actually pull there fingers out their arses and do something.

And yep, most are call centres... doesnt mean they all offer the same level of support though does it

 

some like intel, some like amd, just be done with it....

I say intel centrino for : battery life, integrated wireless support, matching video chipset.

 

lol,

i'm in IT too, never really had problems with Dell support, only once for my own system at home, they kept nagging about a cd i was supposed to use. Got it all sorted in the end.
At work it's just calling telling them what's wrong (if not too sure diagnostics sometimes waste of times, if you got an error code very usefull, just tell and technician is there next day). But most of the time no problems.

Luckely they don't break often either.

 

never used to clock as fast dunno how good there wireless stuff is against centrino ? how many companies etc use AMD none ive ever worked in


its like buying a jaguar instead of a aston martin or going O2 instead of vodafone

Lee 0% for a year for 2 more days http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...n&s=bsd#tabtop

 

All I am saying if I am buying a DL380 server it will be intel, if I am buying a cheap laptop for my sister then buy a good make, but who fooking cares about the fookin prossore make.

The one I mentioned is PC pro A list

 

Ask for them fucking supervisor then, obviously a c unt at the other side of the line. Got them everywhere...

Ever tried calling HP support ?

 

Sorry Kev, But I am a IT manager in a large group pissed of with this INtel rip off.

I only buy HP (compaq), because they are the best, I don't care about the make of chip. if it fails I just send it back.

 

exactly the case on why I would buy intel everytime ! walk into any server room in the city that arent using SANS or whatever and the servers will be HP\Compaq maybe Dell now and all of em will have Intel chip sets tried and tested and reliable buy it use it forget about it Infact walk into any office in the city and the chips will be intel cos there reliable

tried and tested

PS Ive never had issued with Dell support either

 

Dell are sound, if your a computer mong make sure you get gold support on it just in case

 

so Kev if you had a buget of 10k to buy laptops for the year and if you went intel you could only buy 15, but if the new turion 64 chiped one you could by 19 which one whould you buy.

 

I wouldn't touch a Dell laptop if it was the last laptop on the planet, because I KNOW that the keyboard would fail before I'd typed my name, and then the processor would get unseated because someone farted 100 yards away from it etc.

Dell = POS.

Want a decent laptop with a decent warranty get something proper like an Acer or something.

 

they only laptops not mission critical are they?

 

lol, you must think im stupid or something spoke to supervisors, team leaders, managers, all done fook all until threatened!

 

Ok Mr IT Manager well i work for an international Law firm top 15 infact and do the odd bit of IT we use Dell and HP all with Intel cos it removes a hassle factor tried and tested

please go into any big bank, law firm etc ie Deutsche, Clifford Chance etc in the city and I bet there PC's arent AMD

its just not the done thing

edited to say I have a toshiba laptop its wicked portege M100 rock

 

get a IT person to buy the above or the intel version as normal off the street people cannot buy one then you will get a 2year hp warranty.
if it fails phone them a van will turn up with a box which will fit the laptop and it will be back in less than a week.

HP are the don

 

I know kev it not the done thing, But its the thing my group are going if I can get my way. Lets not keep are head in the buried ground shall we.

Dell are ok for home use, But I will not have one any near my server rooms.

 

support is crap and so is the delivery - they sub it out, who is turn are crap.......hours on the phone

 

JonnyB

there is enough to worry about in IT as it it so if I can remove as many hassles as pos my job is easyier and IMO intel is removing one hassle which is AMD

Dell servers I dont really like we have a Dell SDLT Library and thats it.. bar that its all HP\Compaq. until we go SAN soon

The same reason I use Intel would also apply to Cisco wouldnt use anything else but You can trust em infact the company trust the kit enough to go VOIP with them

 

I have build a couple of SAN's what you going for MSL1000 controllers?

 

We have Dell servers worldwide and they never go wrong really

Dell warranty is good too, if you have next business day warranty they turn up next day and repair. (can't afford to have them take the laptop and come back a week later in a big company really)

AMD / INTEL, they're both good, just as kev says, the intel bit makes it that bit easier to manage in a big company. (when making images that work on different machines etc...)

 

Where gonna be using NETAPP http://www.netapp.com/ thats about all I know so far its on hold for a while as we are just finishing an exchange 2003 and AD 2003 Update\Migartion

 

hmmm Kev don't like the sound of SATA drives?

 

o joris I just use RIS, its a little slow, but works fine with all chips sets with a bit of work

 

read up my friend Sata drives will take over desktop and enterprise storage archiving tasks