RSKim

I'm after a lap top and was gonna go PC World just for ease more than anything, but everyone i spoke to doesnt rate them period...

Anyone had any bad experiences.....or is it as i thought, and a laptop is just a laptop no matter where it comes from lol?

topaz

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get a dell if you are not in a rush

L33 BYT

Ebuyer or DABs. Both on line.
Which ever laptop you buy also search for a "Carepack" ie guarantee which suits you.

You can browse by what features you want

ballin

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pcworld nowadays is actually quite good, and also quite competitive. A laptop from there is going to be exactly the same as one bought online if you go for the same model! But personally, I would recommend a Dell direct from their website

Stephen_B

pc world are twats who know fuck all about computing. But their 400 acer laptop deal with 3 gig of ram is very very good. DABS have very good deals on laptops too.

Maria.

kim, go to http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...hs1&l=en&s=dhs

youll be able to find a good laptop on there!

RSKim

not in a rush just need to get my own comp, using the parents at the min, and they aint happy with me putting any of my stuff on it for my ipod, and camera etc, so figured it'd be easier just to get a laptop

Cheers for the link sweetie, ill have a scan in the AM xx

sukh_911

you can get a really good cheap dell laptops these days from pc world..vista

Adrian

you can also get a good Dell laptop in Tesco too.. Plus you get clubcard points

polly_x

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Here here......get the one from Tesco I say.........

geoffxr4

Pcworld, like any big company, has some idiots working for them.

But generally they are ok i'd say

Eagle

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i had some tit in pc world say he would not exchange a video input card i had got from them 6 months ago as i had paid 30 quid less for it in a special deal they had going ... pc world for me are a last ditch can't get it from anywhere else place....
there are some good deals on laptops nowdays you just need to find one that does what you want it to....

Nath

I've got a Dell thats been bullet proof (slight exageration but you know what I mean ), but you'll need to wipe most of the pre loaded rubbish off it.
After previous experiences with PC World, Currys, etc I wont even walk through their doors. There customer services is just non starter

dojj

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i had a bit of a reslut form pc world yesterday

the story goes a little something like this

i can't get the ps3 to work with the wireless connection, it finds it, but then i can't do anythign else with it, so i've decided to hard wire it in
but i need a 10 metre cable as the 5 metre ones' i've got aren't long enough
so off i trot to pc world thinking that it's going to cost me a few quid to get s connecter and job jobbed
then i see the prices of their 10 metre cables, Ł40
so i have a word and, it just so happens that the guy i speak to is their business bloke and tells me that if my company has an account we can do it for a fraction of the price
so i get intrested and, lo and behold, we do have an account there and the price of what i want to buy is Ł2.03p, rather than Ł40
the only downside is that i need to have it delivered, which is going to cost me a tenner, but happy days
then it takes an hour for soemone else to figure out what to do, he was probably new there as he'd fuck up the order, i'd tell him what do to and then he fuck it up some more, then he'd call his boss over, who'd do exactly what i told him to do in the first palce, etc, etc
this took an hour to set up, but i got 40 metres of cable for Ł26, enough to do the whole house

www.pcwb.co.uk

worth a gander

Stu.H

There is no such thing as a good laptop that runs VISTA

Maybe the alienware ones might suffice (Ł2k) , but in general, stick with XP for laptops...

Thrush

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MacBook... Nuff said

FasterFords

Comet have some good deals on laptops too

Sunil_FiestaRS1800

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Dell are cheap but they are cheap for a reason. The hardware is ok but the actual case is shite imho.

PCWorld do do some good deals. My mate got a proper nice Compaq for around 400, runs vista and is sweet as. Only reason people that say vista is shite is if they dont have a good spec for it.

Jim Galbally

CHEAP DELLS are NOT good. they are amongst the WORSE built machines you can buy, expect it to last a few years tops before it breaks

HIGH END DELLs on the other hand are good

there's a reason why yuo can take 2 laptops with the same spec but one costs twice as much as the other... there's more to PCs that justa spec sheet.


ps the "if its more expensive it's better" rule isnt always true, just look at Vaios

Stu.H

Ive always had Vaio's, awesome machines and Ive had no problems, and the screen quality is unsurpassed IMO

Thrush

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So would I, but sadly I don't have Ł700!!!! But man I would really love a MacBook!!

Jim Galbally

gone are the days where mac do anyting better than a PC, they even use the same (if LOWER specced) hardware nowadays.

it's justa different OS/UI really.

all the decent applications that used to make macs stand out (the adobe range etc.) are available on windows and do EXACTLY the same thing.

buying a mac nowadays merely shows you are susceptible to marketing and hype

dojj

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one of these?

R5FORD

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apple all the way.. i just brought a 24inch imac, the best computer iv ever brought.. its so fast its unbelivable. great media programms and just a really good investment.. Id get a applce laptop if i were you.

Markb_s1

could not agree more!!!! wouldn't touch a vaio in a million years. you might be lucky and it doesn't break, but when it does, fuck that! wouldn't touch toshiba these days either. they used to be brilliant but we stopped buying them in for work because they became so shoddy and unreliable.

i'd say go with Dell though.. mid range ones are well priced and pretty good imo.
dunno what the new really cheap ones they've brought out are like.. i think westy bought one so best ask him.

i'm sure apple are great for somethings but personally have no experience of them and therefore wouldn't buy one.

topaz

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you are WRONG !

Its shite because you cant turn those god-awful cleartype fonts off !!!

Yes, there is a setting to turn them off, but it doesnt turn them all off.

Its wank.

The 1st upgrade for any vista pc for me, is XP..

Markb_s1

P.S. - as far as vista goes, it runs fine on my work dell (latitude 820) and it's not a huge spec machine. as for alienware... ŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁ we bought some of those in and by the time the options we wanted had been added they came to abotu 4k. not to mention they weighed about half a ton!

Thrush

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I agree that the programme usage between the two these days are very close, but there is a reason that Macs are still the computer of perference when it comes to, for example, intense graphic design, or music based purposes (such as recording, pro tools, studio work etc) The OS is far more stable, the system as a whole is far more stable and less tempramental than PC's are, and they rarely crash or refuse to work like Windows machines do

And I wouldn't buy one for the marketing or hype, I'd buy one as I find them a pleasure the use. It's all very intuative, whilst being somewhat different, and totally geared up to just being a tool that works for what you want it to do, rather than often finding that what you are trying to execute on a PC becomes more of a chore

Thrush

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PLus whats funny is todays Intel based MacBooks and iMacs can all run Windows in bootcamp or parallel, and the kick in the guts is that Windows running on a Mac is better than Windows running on a PC - it's what Windows always wanted to be, but never quite achieved

Plus you can't "smackbook" a Windows PC/laptop - and that is reason enough to get a MacBook - hella trick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynfFQmqntpk

Sunil_FiestaRS1800

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Im not wrong , ive worked with vista since before the day it came out as my company gets advanced copies of all microsoft products. I have never had a problem with vistas performance or any other aspect except for user accounts being locked down which is overcome easily. As long as your pc is up to spec it is fine and stable.

Saying that though there is nothing at all wrong with XP and i still rate it and would happily use it as vista doesnt offer any realy advantage over it other than looking prettier.

Daveyboy

but dont you work for Apple Dave?

Markb_s1

user account control is very annoying until you turn it off!

Jim Galbally

thrush, thats not actually very clever and the hardware for it is in 90% of all modern laptops. again, it's some silly hyped up gimmick

Thrush

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Jim - I don't see any other laptops being able to run it

Either way, to me, a Mac is a bit of a toy. I don't actually need one... I have a PC which is the work horse, a MacBook would just be like having a weekend car - something just to play with and mess around on - hence why I can't justify spending the money they cost on one....

But I can see how much better in some applications they are than PC.... Plus, you try having the Mac Vs PC argument with Fastmaul, see how well you come off there

Jim Galbally

thrush, its a peice of SOFTWARE. any fucking laptop CAN run it

it's like saying "wow, my PC can play minesweeper but my mac can't"

solution? install minesweeper on the mac

Thrush

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Get me a half price MacBook then?