Laptop Advice

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Hi all,

Looking for a bit of advice on buying a laptop, and saw this. Would appreciat feedback on the spec/brand and any general advice.

Also, anyone know any online Irish vendors for price comparison.


Fujitsu Siemens C1020
Processor Type Pentium 4-M
Processor speed 2.2 GHz
Memory 512 GB
Hard Drive 60
CD-R/DVD Combo
15" Screen
Weight 2.9 kg
€1380


Full Spec:
http://www.lowcost-computers.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/60_96/products_id/1121


Thanks,

- Kevin

Champ

It looks fine if your going to be doing non gaming activities. Should handle other multimedia activities adequately.

Hmm; looks comparable to a Dell Inspiron 5150.
Nevertheless be sure to check out:
www.dell.ie
&
www.elara.ie

Elara generally have a wide selection of notebooks available....

Always nice to have options available;)

Would aim for a Pentium M myself as opposed to the 4-M series; more economic power wise and more muscle...

jesus_thats_gre

Elara are ****..

Check some of the big laptop sellers in the UK. You will save a fortune over anything you buy here...

jessy

The link you posted dose not lead to this spec

p

Thanks for the replies.


Jesus - can you tell me the names fo suggested UK sites.

jessy - the link isn't where I got the quote from. It's really just for reference purposes, e.g. mothersboard/ports etc... It's the same laptop, just a few things different speeds etc...

jessy

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.ASP?CatID=20&Category=Laptops&Thumbnails=No

OR www.dabs.co.uk

Look at the Sticky at the top for more.

therecklessone

Champ wrote:

Would aim for a Pentium M myself as opposed to the 4-M series; more economic power wise and more muscle...

Me too.

Have you tried www.acernotebooks.co.uk ? Acer laptops are very good, you get a bit more bang for your buck. I should know, I'm using one right now...

[edit]Fixed that URL[/edit]

jessy

therecklessone wrote:

Acer laptops are very good, you get a bit more bang for your buck. I should know, I'm using one right now...

Me too.

Acer are much cheaper than Dell or Toshiba, even though you get the same reliability (give or take) I bought mine last August still perfect (like new) it’s a TravelMate 290 1.3 centrion and I very happy with the 5.5 hours battery life.

1.3 centrion
512mb Ram (Max 2GB)
30Gb
CdRw (24x)
3 USB2
TvOut
1 FireWire
InfaRed
Blutooth
1mb L2catch
15” XGA

All for €1395 1 year ago unbeatable (it would still be a good deal today).

I bought it from Elara, the laptop was brand new on the market (I had to wait 2 weeks for it to be available in Ireland, I think I got it cheap because Elara re-priced it to €1595 2 weeks later.) the Machine is so quit you can just about hear it, if you put your ear on it.

Acer is the way to go I think.

therecklessone

p wrote:

Hi all,

Looking for a bit of advice on buying a laptop, and saw this. Would appreciat feedback on the spec/brand and any general advice.

Also, anyone know any online Irish vendors for price comparison.


Fujitsu Siemens C1020
Processor Type Pentium 4-M
Processor speed 2.2 GHz
Memory 512 GB
Hard Drive 60
CD-R/DVD Combo
15" Screen
Weight 2.9 kg
€1380

- Kevin

Go €70 or so more and you'll get this:

Intel Centrino 1.5Ghz processor
512MB DDR
40GB hard drive
CD-RW/DVD combo drive
15" TFT display
56k modem
Wired LAN 10/100
Wireless 11g
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
3 USB ports
1 Firewire
1 Bluetooth IR port

Acer TravelMate 292LCi

You lose out on 20GB of Hard Drive, but you'll get 5 hours battery life and WiFi. And that 1.5 Pentium M processor will be more than adequate, cept maybe for high-spec gaming.

xe.com says it will cost you approx €1450. One snag, they don't accept non-UK credit cards, so its a bank transfer or sterling draft I'm afraid.

CyberGhost

www.dell.ie

Dell Inspiron 5150!

very good!

or

www.jes-computer.com

they have good deals there!

Rew

therecklessone wrote:

Me too.

Have you tried www.acernotebooks.co.uk ? Acer laptops are very good, you get a bit more bang for your buck. I should know, I'm using one right now...

[edit]Fixed that URL[/edit]

Iv an Acer TravelMate 800 bought from Elara. Great laptop no complaints. Have a look at http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/acer-laptops-n.htm and www.acer.co.uk

www.acernotebooks.co.uk dont seem to have a good selection but I was looking at the top of the line models.

LastIrishMonkey

i got a lovely hp pavillion ea4400 and its about the same specs and its a better company then Fujitsu Siemens ! choose wisely