Dell Laptop for Euro399 incl VAT and del

shortys94

link?

Irishpimpdude

shortys94 wrote:

link?

wtf its changed back now... why would they do that?

CiaranC

Use your brains lads, adding a stick of RAM wont void your warranty. The vendor will only support the machine in original (or authorised upgrade) configuration though.

animaal

I've pulled a 256MB stick of memory out of one of these laptops. Anybody interested for 20 euros?

shortys94

irishpimipdude the link was never there, maybe you were seeing things:P

Irishpimpdude

It was there i even clicked on customise... is said Now from 399 In a black font!

shortys94

maybe you saw the dimension model for 399?

anyway, is this laptop worth the 399? Im considering getting it but may upgrade to 6 cell battery, 512 ram and 15 inch screen......

Irishpimpdude

No seriously! it was the inspiron 1300, had a cdrw24x/dvdrom... dont know why its gone now though

ilobrim

animaal wrote:

I've pulled a 256MB stick of memory out of one of these laptops. Anybody interested for 20 euros?

i`ll buy it from you. pm your contact details

shortys94

is this a good deal??? doesnt seem to be many people posting on it today....
i may get one tonight, what kind of warranty comes with it?

i dont need wireless but i think ill upgrade to 6 cell battery, are the 6 cells muich better?

is there a slot for it to be upgradable to 512ram?
anyone?

Irishpimpdude

shortys94 wrote:

is this a good deal??? doesnt seem to be many people posting on it today....
i may get one tonight, what kind of warranty comes with it?

i dont need wireless but i think ill upgrade to 6 cell battery, are the 6 cells muich better?

is there a slot for it to be upgradable to 512ram?
anyone?

Tbh yea its a good deal but only if you want a basic basic laptop! and yes you can stick another 256mb ram in to make it 512... and yea the 6 cell is worth the extra few quid im wondering what the story on there online tracking is.. cause it says mine should arrive tomorrow but it is still in pre-production since the 4th anyone know if it should arrive or have had like this prob before?

shortys94

yea, should i upgrade the screen? if i dont is the 14 inch good enough? lol first laptop:P

thanks for info about ram

also, would it be good for dvds, listenin to music and web browsing? And maybe some light counter strike play

how mnay usb ports? and how much are tv tuners to get for laptops?

Sharp

Have a look at this thread about the Ram.



Here

Irishpimpdude

shortys94 wrote:

yea, should i upgrade the screen? if i dont is the 14 inch good enough? lol first laptop:P

thanks for info about ram

also, would it be good for dvds, listenin to music and web browsing? And maybe some light counter strike play

how mnay usb ports? and how much are tv tuners to get for laptops?

my first laptop too i upgraded the screen,wireless and dvdrw im supposed to be getting it today lol... and as for tv tuners hmm... think you can get a usb one check them out here http://komplett.ie/k/kl.asp?bn=10420&sortBy=p&minprice=&maxPrice=

shortys94

yea i dont want dvdrw just dvd or wireless, but is the screen god at 14 inch? i mean its alright if i dont upgrade or is it a big loss?

Irishpimpdude

Yeah it will be alright... but the 15.4" is just a luxury!

TerrorFirmer

shortys94 wrote:

yea i dont want dvdrw just dvd or wireless, but is the screen god at 14 inch? i mean its alright if i dont upgrade or is it a big loss?

The 14 inch is still fine. As for light Counter Strike play - yes, but you'll need to upgrade the RAM to at least 512 to play it - the Graphics card is integrated and will eat into your ram to actually run CS so 256mb ram wouldn't be enough (I assume you mean CS:Source - CS original will run no probs on that spec)

And added to that it prob won't look very pretty so don't be planning on gaming much (except old games of course which will be fine)

Irishpimpdude

Looks like i wont be getting my lappy today just rang them up... another 2-3 working days its only going into production! :mad:

MisterAnarchy

Sponge Bob wrote:

If you click here , it will cost €469 Including DVD RW and Wireless and otherwise specced as Walshski said in the OP

Hints

1. Reduce warranty to 90 days to get the €469 price
2. State your employer, make sure its a big bank or university eg UCD or AIB

Seems to have gone up a bit.

Sponge Bob

yep, by about €50 to €515 .

here is a new link, 15.4" monitor as standard instead of 14" and €501 all in , again select 90 days warranty and state you work for a bank like BoI

shortys94

yea im orderin in awhile, upgrading 4 cell to 6 cell battery although the slaes person said there was a delay on the 6 cells.......

could anyone tell me the ports on the laptop? like how many usb ports etc

Irishpimpdude

shortys94 wrote:

yea im orderin in awhile, upgrading 4 cell to 6 cell battery although the slaes person said there was a delay on the 6 cells.......

could anyone tell me the ports on the laptop? like how many usb ports etc

ah thats prob why mine only went into production today...

shortys94

maybe but its only a one or two day delay so maybe not......
im not gonna upgrade warranty, i think you get a 90 day with it, and i found out theres three usb ports and an ethernet port...... so seems pretty good

shortys94

just ordered, and after all the hastle of some dell sales reps telling me that the ram was not upgradable, and there was no ethernet port i finally got a rep which told the truth and even checked up on the net to be 100 percent sure that the ram was upgradable. then my mums credit card didnt go through because it has to be authorised and you cant make calls from cell phones to mbna, so so so much hastle buying over phone, so now i have to send bank draft, would credit transfer be quicker? the rep said the order will be alright because theres a SIX DAY delay on 6 cell batteries........ o well hope i it all goes well

tallaghtdave

sounds like a lot of hastle man..
i ordered one with the sireless. now as i didnt tick on the back up cd .would i need drivers or anything for the wireless card?

TempestSabre

tallaghtdave wrote:

sounds like a lot of hastle man..
i ordered one with the sireless. now as i didnt tick on the back up cd .would i need drivers or anything for the wireless card?

Download the drivers from the Dell site and make your own CD.

tallaghtdave

so i take it i need the drivers on it before i use the wireless?
so i cant use the wireless on till i get them?
would anyone have a direct link to the drivers for that exact wireless card i have not mine in post yet

Wertz

Dell will have all the drivers pre-installed, and they will also be backed up along with an OS image on a separate partition on the harddrive.
The only time you will need the drivers will be if you choose to wipe the disk and do a fresh install, which IMO is a necessary move with dells, since there's a lot of trialware on there.
Note you will need a physical copy of the OS to install it...factory reset will reinstall everything including the trialware which defeats the purpose.

tallaghtdave

fair play to u . taken note of the above cheers lad.

shortys94

yea i think its the windows back up disc or something i ordered with it