Laptop

[The Forse]

I fancy a new one, (I don`t actually need one either) but been looking at this!
What say yee?

If I buy through work should knock the price down to about £549.99


AMD® Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL56 edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 (incl Operating System Re-Install CD) - English edit
VISTA UPGRADE MCE to Vista Premium Upgrade on www.dellvistaupgrade.com before 03/31/07 edit
SUPPORT SERVICES Basic Package, 3 Year At-Home Service edit
LCD 15.4" Wide Screen XGA TFT Display: 1280x800 edit
MEMORY 512MB 533MHz Single Channel DDR2 SDRAM (1x512) edit
HARD DRIVE 80GB (5,400rpm) Hard Drive edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software edit
GRAPHICS CARD ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory™ edit
PRIMARY BATTERY 6 Cell, 56Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit
Accessories
DELL PRINTERS Free - Dell Colour Printer 725 edit
INK CARTRIDGES No Additional Printer Ink Cartridge Selected edit
725 Imaging Promotion - FREE Dellâ„¢ Colour Printer 725 edit
CABLES No Printer Cable Selected edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g 54Mbps Wireless Mini Card18 edit
CARRY CASES No Carry Case

Price £649.25 including vat and delivery

[manuxtreme]

Excellent choice mate, the Core 2 Duo's would be better but not sure how much of a price difference they will be. The new Intel C2D's churn about 50% more performance for a similar rated AMD 64 X2.

Oh yeah and I recommend a memory upgrade, at least to 1GB as 512 is just enough for XP and meets the bare minimum for Vista.

I think thats about it what you should look at as the rest look good.

[Simonutd]

AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH its a dell, dont think you will get it much cheaper with work, id look for an acer laptop if i was you, i will look to see if i can get any good deals at the moe

[Simonutd]

Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi


Specifications
Product Description Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi - Turion 64 mobile technology MK-36 - 15.4" TFT
Manufacturer Warranty 1 year warranty
Dimensions (WxDxH) 35.8 cm x 26.9 cm x 3.4 cm
Weight 2.8 kg
Processor AMD Turion 64 mobile technology MK-36
Hard Drive 100 GB
Networking Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
Power AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
RAM 1 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM
Graphics Controller ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
Audio Output Sound card
Localisation United Kingdom
Cache Memory 1 MB - L2 Cache
Optical Storage DVD±RW (+R double layer) - integrated
Display 15.4" TFT active matrix WXGA (1280 x 800) - 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
Telecom Fax / modem - 56 Kbps
Input Device Keyboard, touchpad, 4-way scroll button
Battery Lithium Ion
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Built-in Devices Stereo speakers, wireless LAN aerial
System Type Notebook
Wireless NIC Acer InviLink 802.11b/g
Run Time (Up To) 2 hour(s)


£552.24 inc Vat

http://www.misco.co.uk/productinformation/~Q85674~WW~/ACER%20AS5101WLMi%20%2F%2015.4%20WXGA%20CB%20%2F%2 0Turion%20MK%2036%20%2F%20AT.htm#

[manuxtreme]

Dont get ACER mate, their Laptops might be cheap but their support aint good. It would be a good idea to stay miles away from any ACER

[Simonutd]

Dont get ACER mate, their Laptops might be cheap but their support aint good. It would be a good idea to stay miles away from any ACER

never had a problem with acer, sold over 400 laptops to schools, and sold over 1000 monitors, had a few faulty and had them replaced with in a few days, they did have a problem with there custmer support when they moved buildingd about 4 months ago, but its been great since