Is this good value?

Mutant_Fruit

Friend of mine just ordered this laptop computer...

Details of Travelmate 292ELMi
Cel-M 1.3GHz,
256MB ram,
40GB hd,
15" TFT,
64MB VRAM,
DVD-Dual,
802.11g
Wi-Fi,
Li-Ion battery,
XP Pro

Total: EUR1200

Is it any good?

ur-lord

not really you coud do much better for the money, even say dell could beat that easly

astrofool

looks ok, apart from a CRAP cpu and too little memory, u NEED 512 these days really.

Capt'n Midnight

for comparison

http://ireland.aldi.com/
Gericom Laptop
Multi Format DVD Burner DVD R/RW**
Intel PRO/WIRELESS LAN 2200 b/g
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 128MB
High resolution 15.1in SXGA+ Display
80 GB Hard disk
512 MB DDR RAM 333MHz
4 in 1 Card Reader Soundsystem High Speed Interfaces
3x USB 2.0, Firewire IEEE1394 Audio & Video interfaces 1x PCMCIA Type II Card Bus supported Modem and LAN Battery: SMART LI-ION Battery.

€ 1499.99

Tom Dunne

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

Friend of mine just ordered this laptop computer...

Details of Travelmate 292ELMi
Cel-M 1.3GHz,
256MB ram,
40GB hd,
15" TFT,
64MB VRAM,
DVD-Dual,
802.11g
Wi-Fi,
Li-Ion battery,
XP Pro

Total: EUR1200

Is it any good?

The RAM is going to kill him. 256M is barely enough for simple Word and interweb browsing. At least your friend can upgrade that when it arrives. I would say everything else is fine.

Mutant_Fruit

he needs the wi-fi wireless stuff, but other than that, feel free to recommend something better. This will have to last a few years, and i am Extremely worried about the ****e CPU in it.

unkel

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

he needs the wi-fi wireless stuff

Even the likes of PCWorld (pardon my French) do 802.11g cardbus cards for €49...

Where is he getting it from? Probably PCWorld or something like it. Tbh it is crap value for money and as posted before, Aldi/Lidl/Dell would have better offers. Pretty good deals also at jes - check them out!