699 for a top spec laptop in Tesco

swingking

I saw a fantastic iQon laptop in Tesco, Nutgrove for 699

Here's the specs

Athlon 64x2
2gb ram
120 gb hard drive
15.4" screen

It's on special offer

Opinions?

jetsonx

Fisher-Price have a better build-quality in their toy computer range
than Iqon.

Moreover, the components used in any Iqon i've ever seen have been of
the lowest quality I've ever seen.

There is no such thing as a "value-for-money" Iqon. Steer clear.

kaizersoze

Top spec, fantastic & IQON are 3 phrases that should never appear in the same sentence.

swingking

thanks for the heads up, I was going to buy it

Appreciate it

savemejebus

go to www.dell.ie/epp and enter this evalue code FAIE4-N0810003 and you'll get a decent machine

oneweb

jetsonx wrote:

Fisher-Price have a better build-quality in their toy computer range
than Iqon.

Moreover, the components used in any Iqon i've ever seen have been of
the lowest quality I've ever seen.

There is no such thing as a "value-for-money" Iqon. Steer clear.

If I could use one word, it would be UGH! On several occassions I got tech support calls to try fix a modem which never worked from brand new. Lemons!

Creamy Goodness

holy crap.

i done that,

added XP at €0.00
downgraded to basic 1 year support
added upgrade to monitor
and added 9-cell battery

all for 603.79.

absolute fecking bargin and if i had the cash i'd buy it for the family so it would stop them using my macbook

dingding

savemejebus wrote:

go to www.dell.ie/epp and enter this evalue code FAIE4-N0810003 and you'll get a decent machine

just ordered one, great price, you could pay up to 890 for it, got the large battery and better screen.

Yellow Dog

OK, I have this saved in my basket.

Been planning on buying a laptop for months.

Is this one good value for money?

Please don't try and tell me about processors, speed etc. (no offence)

Just want a machine for basic use.

Thanks.

mobileplaza

that dell vostro looks a great deal, do you need to be a registered business to avail of the offer?

dingding

When I went to purchase it, it would not complete the order until a business name was given, I changed the order to my wifes name and put down my wifes company as her work is one of the companies.

Hobbes

dingding wrote:

When I went to purchase it, it would not complete the order until a business name was given, I changed the order to my wifes name and put down my wifes company as her work is one of the companies.

EPP is the Employee Purchase Program. Basically major companies will pay Dell a small fee towards giving their employees a discount on items.

Odds on they will ever reject it or send a bill to your wife for service.

Although knowing Dell they will probably send you 2 machines, 3 monitors and 8 keyboards then refund you and tell you to keep the stuff as it is too expensive to return.

dingding

Hobbes wrote:

EPP is the Employee Purchase Program. Basically major companies will pay Dell a small fee towards giving their employees a discount on items.

Odds on they will ever reject it or send a bill to your wife for service.

Although knowing Dell they will probably send you 2 machines, 3 monitors and 8 keyboards then refund you and tell you to keep the stuff as it is too expensive to return.

My lucky day.

byte

Hobbes wrote:

Although knowing Dell they will probably send you 2 machines, 3 monitors and 8 keyboards then refund you and tell you to keep the stuff as it is too expensive to return.

Damnit, didn't happen to me when I got a Dell Dimension through the EPP. Still got it at a great price though.

WRT the iQon laptops, I got one from Tesco last winter when they had a 50% back offer. While it has given me no bother, it's certainly not built to the standard of the likes of Dells etc. Feels cheap.

At the time I bought it, on the box it mentioned it had TV output, though it most certainly does not (just VGA output). I emailed iQon a few times about it, though never got a reply, not even an auto-reply. I could've, I suppose brought it back to Tesco, but I didn't bother.

blastman

Just placed an order for that Vostro, cheers savemejebus. Fantastic price for that spec.

Hobbes

byte wrote:

Damnit, didn't happen to me when I got a Dell Dimension through the EPP. Still got it at a great price though.

I was kind of half joking but this is what goes on in Dell. I ordered a hard drive for my machine, they sent me a really nice high spec one but wouldn't fit in the machine. They refunded me but said it was too expensive to return so left it here. Likewise with my wifes machine everytime it came back from being fixed we got a new keyboard+mouse (3 of each so far). I know someone who had the same deal with a graphics card. They sent him the wrong one, so sent the right one but left the old one there. Lastly a guy in work got 2 monitors and 3 keyboards from them for the same reason.

daveg

Wasn't planning on buying a laptop but feck me it's a great price. Any techie wanna advise if this is a good machine for €543 incl shipping? Should I add/remove anything else?

Vostro™ 1000 NB(N0810003)
AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK53,
Genuine Windows Vista™ Business - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
4 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (29 Whr)
56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter
Dell™ Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-Card - Europe

dingding

If you intend to use it on battery power, the higher capacity battery.

dingding

Found this link. (prices in sterling)

http://www.pcpricer.co.uk/Dell/LaptopTable.shtml

Gives all current evalue codes.

jellybean520

Try looking on their Outlet site also;

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=ie&l=en&s=dfh

fletch

Yeh I'd definitely go for the 9 cell battery. I genuinely can get 3.5hrs+ from it which I think is quite impressive. My sisters compaq laptop nearly always has to be plugged into the mains.

Tom Dunne

daveg wrote:

Wasn't planning on buying a laptop but feck me it's a great price. Any techie wanna advise if this is a good machine for €543 incl shipping? Should I add/remove anything else?

Vostro™ 1000 NB(N0810003)
AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK53,
Genuine Windows Vista™ Business - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
4 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (29 Whr)
56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter
Dell™ Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-Card - Europe

The general concensus on the laptop forum is that the Vostro is a damn good machine for the price. The only thing is you will be waiting a while for it.

As for the Iqon, the Fisher Price analogy is quite apt. You get what you pay for, basically.

<shameless plug> I have posted a poll on the laptop forum asking if people want to set up a sticky for good value laptops. Looking at the voting so far, it will go ahead </shameless plug>

daveg

tom dunne wrote:

The general concensus on the laptop forum is that the Vostro is a damn good machine for the price. The only thing is you will be waiting a while for it.

As for the Iqon, the Fisher Price analogy is quite apt. You get what you pay for, basically.

<shameless plug> I have posted a poll on the laptop forum asking if people want to set up a sticky for good value laptops. Looking at the voting so far, it will go ahead </shameless plug>

Gets my vote. Here's a link to the thread for everyone to help your shameless plug:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055134867

dingding

Just had my order confirmed, In pre-production with delivery date on or before 21st Aug.

embraer170

That code expires today the 15th. Longshot but I take it no one has a dell e-value code for the Vostro 1400?

blastman

dingding wrote:

Just had my order confirmed, In pre-production with delivery date on or before 21st Aug.

Same here.

Yellow Dog

dingding wrote:

Just had my order confirmed, In pre-production with delivery date on or before 21st Aug.

Bingo!!

Snap!!

Eh,............. same here.:)

RainyDay

Wow - nice price for the Dell Vostro - it puts it in the same ballpark as the recent Adli Medion laptop offer.

Is there any disadvantage to getting the Business version of Vista for the home user? On XP, some of the Home features just seemed easier to use than Business. Will it be possible to configure the Vista Business for a nice friendly home environment?

Is there any way I can add an on-board Bluetooth facility? [I know I can use an external dongle, but it would be nice to have this built-in].

dingding

Went into production today. They must have all the parts

dingding

Dispatched

jimbobwalton

Do any of the notebook have a connection for a wired internet cable? I cant see it mentioned

savemejebus

do you mean a modem or ethernet? All of these laptops will come with an ethernet port as standard. A modem is usually an added extra that can be selected during the customisation process.

Fisiu

daveg wrote:

Wasn't planning on buying a laptop but feck me it's a great price. Any techie wanna advise if this is a good machine for €543 incl shipping? Should I add/remove anything else?

Vostro™ 1000 NB(N0810003)
AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK53,
Genuine Windows Vista™ Business - English
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
4 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (29 Whr)
56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter
Dell™ Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-Card - Europe

1. Change Vista to still good XP.
2. Take better LCD.
3. Take larger battery (9 cell)

Yellow Dog

Looks like this code has expired.

Received mine this morning though.

Don't suppose yo have another code Savemejebus?

savemejebus

fraid not man, that code was on a fax we received at work. If we get any more in i'll post them.

blastman

No sign of mine yet. Can't see a link to the courier tracking on the Dell progress page, should there be one?

flogen

damn - saw this, decided I wasn't going to buy and then decided last night I was.

Let me know if any similar offers come up!

dingding

blastman wrote:

No sign of mine yet. Can't see a link to the courier tracking on the Dell progress page, should there be one?

No sign of mine either or courier tracking but it was dispatched yesterday.

Irish Wolf

dingding wrote:

Found this link. (prices in sterling)

http://www.pcpricer.co.uk/Dell/LaptopTable.shtml

Gives all current evalue codes.

Nice link dingding.. One for the bookmarks.

mukki

savemejebus wrote:

go to www.dell.ie/epp and enter this evalue code FAIE4-N0810003 and you'll get a decent machine

ordered that, i went for xp because i bet vista will be a bore with the 5400rpm hard drive

thanks for the link and evalue, getting in on the 28th

Yellow Dog

Offer appears to be available again.:)

dingding

mukki wrote:

ordered that, i went for xp because i bet vista will be a bore with the 5400rpm hard drive

thanks for the link and evalue, getting in on the 28th

I got it with XP but I put vista ultimate on it, got the disks at the microsoft launch.

It is fast for a laptop on vista, on my work laptop I am thinking of getting them to put XP on it because it is so slow.

The vista benchmarks are as follows.

Windows Experience 2.8


Processor 4.6
Memory 5.1
Graphics 2.8
Gaming Graphics 3.1
Primary Hard Disk 4.8

The laptop has a wired ethernet port and a modem in addition to onboard wireless and a SD card reader, that could probably be used for readyboost.

There is no bluetooth, firewire, Infrared, and there are 4 usb ports, 2 powered.

dingding

Yellow Dog wrote:

Offer appears to be available again.:)

Price appears to have gone up by about a tenner, still a great buy.

blastman

Got mine on Friday, only reservation I have really is the hard drive speed, but can't really complain at the price.

ro1798

does this laptop have speakers and or headphone sopcket
?????


thanks:D

dingding

Both, it has 2 speakers on the front and on the RHS it has a headphone and microphone socket.

Don't think it has a built in microphone.

ro1798

Vostro™ 1000 NB(N0810003) Qty 1
AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK53, Genuine Windows® XP Professional - English Unit Price Incl. VAT € 664.29
Money Off €90 Ex Vat
Expires 29 August 2007 View Details
- € 108.90

Catalog Number: 5102 N0810003
Module Description Show Details
Base AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK53
Microsoft Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Professional - English
Memory 2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]
Keyboard Internal Keyboard - UK/Irish (QWERTY)
Video Card ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory (integrated)
Hard Drive 120GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
Modem 56.6k V.92 Capable Internal Modem & Adapter - Ireland/Spain
Optical Devices Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
Wireless Networking Dell™ Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini-Card - Europe
Shipping Documents English Documentation with English/Irish Power Cord
Gedis Bundle Reference List N0810003 - Vostro 1000
Microsoft Application Software Microsoft® Works 8.0 - English
Standard Warranty Base Warranty - 1 Year Business Hardware Support
Enhanced Service Packs Base Warranty - 1 Year Business Hardware Support
Protect your new PC No Security/Anti-Virus Protection - English
Power Supply 65W AC Adapter
Order Information Vostro Notebook Order - Ireland
Primary Battery 9 cell Lithium-Ion Battery (85 Whr)
Carrying Cases No Carry Case
Dell System Media Kit Resource DVD - (Diagnostics & Drivers)
Accidental Damage Support No Accidental Damage Support
Online Promotion Option for GEDIS Configs Dell Internet Order.
LCD 15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife™


worth 615

Placebo

vostro? any good, nice specs, dont have the money but well tempted

ro1798

yea the ones the lads are talking about just ordered for my oul fella.... seems a good price... xp all the way also

flogen

I might be missing something but the price seems to be pretty much the same (maybe €2 more) without that PCC code - I ordered it (without the extra warranty and with the better screen and bigger battery) last night for around €613 through the PCC.

I checked the normal dell site and did the same through small business out of interest - with the vat and shipping added it was €615.

Either way, great price - delighted to see it return! Mine should be here next week!

mukki

flogen wrote:

Mine should be here next week!

no!


I ordered one on 17th, and its was shipped today (20th),woooo hooooo

and 18th and 19th were a sat and sun, bet you will have yours on wed or thursday