Laptop in Woodies?

marco murphy

Anyone know about the laptop in woodies, is it good ?

godtabh

Poblachtach wrote:

Anyone know about the laptop in woodies, is it good ?

Can you provided any more information?

Couldnt see anything on the website

marco murphy

I looked on the site also, nothing.
Its 749 and its an Iqon laptop. thats all i was told, and it comes with loads of accessories.
All i want to know is what is the processor.

kaizersoze

Probably the same the models Tesco sell. Iqon are sh!te.

marco murphy

Why are they ****e?

I think its a Pentium M something 725?

Bard

kaizersoze wrote:

Probably the same the models Tesco sell. Iqon are sh!te.

What exactly makes you claim that iQon are "sh!te"? Personal experience?

They DO sell a lot of low end Celeron based laptops in and around the €700 retail price mark. They do, however, also have some very good well spec'd and competitively priced high-end Core Duo machines with Windows Media Centre Edition. They sell through dealers like Harvey Norman and Tesco. I'm surprised to see Woodies stocking them, but ... any port in a storm, I guess. They've a lot of competition out there, what with Dunnes flogging Fujitsu Siemens notebooks.

A lot of people seem to think iQon are "sh!te" because they're made in Ireland and aren't one of the bigger names like Tosh, hp or Sony... which is a bit silly to be honest... there's very little or nothing wrong with them. We sell them where I work and, to be honest, we've seen less of them come back with problems than we have some of the "big name" brands.

Ruu_Old

I don't know a whole lot about them Iqons, I do know that their support is absolutely brruuuuutal.

marco murphy

I had an Iqon, a celeron 2.4. Never had one problem with it, worked grand for 2-3 years

TerrorFirmer

Bard wrote:

What exactly makes you claim that iQon are "sh!te"? Personal experience?

They DO sell a lot of low end Celeron based laptops in and around the €700 retail price mark. They do, however, also have some very good well spec'd and competitively priced high-end Core Duo machines with Windows Media Centre Edition. They sell through dealers like Harvey Norman and Tesco. I'm surprised to see Woodies stocking them, but ... any port in a storm, I guess. They've a lot of competition out there, what with Dunnes flogging Fujitsu Siemens notebooks.

A lot of people seem to think iQon are "sh!te" because they're made in Ireland and aren't one of the bigger names like Tosh, hp or Sony... which is a bit silly to be honest... there's very little or nothing wrong with them. We sell them where I work and, to be honest, we've seen less of them come back with problems than we have some of the "big name" brands.

Alot of people think iQon are sh!te because they are shoddy builds in alot of cases and their support is to be generous, horrible.

ddea

I've had an Iqon for four months and never had a problem with it. Got it in Tesco at a bargain price (50% of an already low price to be returned in clubcard vouchers) and haven't regretted it

godtabh

ddea wrote:

I've had an Iqon for four months and never had a problem with it. Got it in Tesco at a bargain price (50% of an already low price to be returned in clubcard vouchers) and haven't regretted it

At the end of they day it comes down to what you will actually use the pc for

ongarite

I got an iQon laptop for a friend and I thought it was pretty nice. The software or lack of crap installed on system was a big plus for me. I didnt come with Norton piece of crap antivirus pre-installed and 20 startup programs hogging all your memory.
I've fixed many laptops for friends and the amount of crap that comes with computers these days is unreal.

ddea

kearnsr wrote:

At the end of they day it comes down to what you will actually use the pc for

Obviously

Kiith

Laptops? In Woodies? Christ, we (me being a woodies employee) are really splashing out for christmas. Its not in the Carlow store though. Wonder if i'll still get my 40% discount off this

godtabh

Kiith wrote:

Laptops? In Woodies? Christ, we (me being a woodies employee) are really splashing out for christmas. Its not in the Carlow store though. Wonder if i'll still get my 40% discount off this

If you do but me down for one!