Is this the best value Laptop on the 'High Street?'

Dr. Nick

PC World:

Compaq F569 @ €699, less 10% discount until monday.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/685902

TerrorFirmer

Sure thats the right model? Can't find anything using that on google. What are the specs?

Dr. Nick

it's on the end of the l/tops section in blanch. how does this compare to the much-vaunted dell vostros?

Toy

Is this it? I'll let others who know better comment on the value though.

Dr. Nick

Yes, that's tthe one.

I'd also like those who know better how home-friendly this thing is?

remus808

What do you mean by home-friendly?

I would guess that that is a better system than any vostro at that price. The vostros are better, but you'd have to fork out a bit more.

Ghost Train

there's this fujitsu dual core intel for €522(after online discount) in powercity
http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-30-14039

remus808

thread was changed!

Dr. Nick

karmabass wrote: »

What do you mean by home-friendly?

HP market compaqs as business machines, that's all.

cormie

So are the two deals above actually better value then you'd get from a Vostro?

Sqaull20

cormie wrote: »

So are the two deals above actually better value then you'd get from a Vostro?

Not imo....The pc world one is €630 after deductions and is the exact same spec as the Vostro one (N1010002) available for €460,plus you have to deal with those clowns from pc world :rolleyes:

The one from power city has less disk space and is €50 more expensive...

cormie

Are siemens better than Dell though? 80GB would actually suit me fine, what warranty does it have I wonder, the site doesn't give away a lot of info.

AlmightyCushion

If it doesn't say then I would presume it is a one year. I've never had any siemens computers but I have a nearly 4 year old dell desktop, a one year old laptop. My brother has the same and my sister has a vostro a couple of weeks old and I have had no hardware trouble from any of them.

cormie

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

If it doesn't say then I would presume it is a one year. I've never had any siemens computers but I have a nearly 4 year old dell desktop, a one year old laptop. My brother has the same and my sister has a vostro a couple of weeks old and I have had no hardware trouble from any of them.

But you probably never worked for them;)

My job ended there with well if you feel that way about the company as your tl it wouldn't be right of me to let you stay. Haha:D

DingDong

cormie wrote: »

Are siemens better than Dell though? 80GB would actually suit me fine, what warranty does it have I wonder, the site doesn't give away a lot of info.

I own two fujitsu siemens and had problems with both. The power connector on both of them broke(not covered under warrenty) and the sound stopped working(it started to work again out of the blue). One of them wouldn't charge a battery even after I bought a brand new one.
I bought an acer recently and so far so good although the wireless is a bit iffy.

Ghost Train

Sqaull20 wrote: »

Not imo....The pc world one is €630 after deductions and is the exact same spec as the Vostro one (N1010002) available for €460,plus you have to deal with those clowns from pc world :rolleyes:

The one from power city has less disk space and is €50 more expensive...

the power city one is a dual core intel the vostro is an amd

a dell 6400(N10642) with the same processor costs €567

found out the powercity laptop is an amilo Li1705
Real negitives are the 3 cell 2.2A battery :eek: ,only vista home basic and the smaller hard drive
Still the cheapest intel t2080 laptop, but the above dell looks like a better option for dual core intel even though €45 extra