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  • 27-08-2006 6:09pm
    #1
    tywy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭


    my friend is movin the england for college and is lookin for a laptop. It will probably just be in her flat most of the time so doesn't need to be that portable. I found what looks like a good deal from dell. What do you think?

    Intel® Centrino® Mobile Technology with Intel® Pentium® M Processor 735 (1.70 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB)

    Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition

    512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM

    80GB Hard Drive (5,400rpm)

    14.1" Wide XGA screen

    Integrated Direct AGP Graphics

    Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive#

    56K Data Fax Modem

    It weighs 3kg

    It comes to €649 with 90 day collect and return (probably upgrade the warranty)

    My friend only wants this for browsing the net, watching movies, word processing, sending emails, the usual.

    You think it's a good deal??


Comments

  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    You'll probably want another stick of 512mb, otherwise would be fine for what you listed.


  • #3
    cornbb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    I would defo upgrade the warranty, its one of the most important things to look for in a laptop in my humble opinion. Plus the RAM as he said. Apart from that it sounds fine for the purposes you described.


  • #4
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    As was said, another 512mb of RAM would be the norm these days. As for the warrenty, I think it was said in another thread, but there has to be a year warrenty on the laptop anyway by default. Anything else is just convienence (collect and return etc) so if he's in England, an increased warrenty isn't going to be much help to him. 14'1 inch screen will be nice and portable. My laptop is about that size and it's a dream to carry around.


  • #5
    tywy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭tywy


    1GB is the norm these days, but I got a laptop just under 2 years ago with half a gig of RAM and it does all those things above perfectly, I have no complaints. The annoying thing is, it costs almost €200 to upgrade to 1GB which is hardly worth it....*Shrugs*


  • #6
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    You can upgrade the ram yourself for about 40-50 euro, and its so easy a chimp could do it, never waste your money upgrading with DELL, thats where they rip people off. :)


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  • #7
    majiktripp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭majiktripp


    upgrade the screen from 14.1" as if its an inspiron 1300 (no model number provided) your left with a big black border around your screen as its not the native size for the model,15.4 being that.Its a cheap enough upgrade I do believe and you wont regret it.The ones we ordered for customers just dont look right for some reason!


  • #8
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    majiktripp wrote:
    upgrade the screen from 14.1" as if its an inspiron 1300 (no model number provided) your left with a big black border around your screen as its not the native size for the model,15.4 being that.Its a cheap enough upgrade I do believe and you wont regret it.The ones we ordered for customers just dont look right for some reason!

    Yeah, I would actually agree with opting for a screen upgrade - it looks odd at 14.1, almost like a photo frame if you can imagine that...the screen is way smaller then the actual frame of the lappy.


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