Toshiba Laptop €499

johnnyrotten

Currys are doing the following:

Toshiba Equium Laptop

Intel Duo core Processor
2048 mb Ram
120 GB Harddrive
Windows Vista Home Premium
Multi-layered DVD Rewriter

Was €649 now €499

This is advertised in this weekends Swords Gazette

Random

What sorta graphics?

Do they offer interest free finance on it?

What size is the screen?

Does it have inbuilt wireless?

corcaigh07

pretty good deal!

AlmightyCushion

random wrote: »

What sorta graphics?

I'd be very surprised if it wasn't integrated.

random wrote: »

What size is the screen?

At that price probably a 15.4".

random wrote: »

Does it have inbuilt wireless?

I'm pretty sure all laptops have built in wireless now a days. It's probably a/b/g.

What is the processor on it?

IamBeowulf

It's not a Duo core, it's a Pentium Dual Core.

Does anyone know, is there a huge difference performance-wise between Pentium Dual Core, and Core2Duo? Cos I'm very interested in that laptop myself...

AlmightyCushion

IamBeowulf wrote: »

It's not a Duo core, it's a Pentium Dual Core.

Does anyone know, is there a huge difference performance-wise between Pentium Dual Core, and Core2Duo? Cos I'm very interested in that laptop myself...

I think the pentium dual core is just a core 2 duo with half the cache. I'm not too sure though so I'll do a bit of digging.

TerrorFirmer

Jack all difference for day to day uses....think 1mb l2 cache vs 2mb on the core 2.

AlmightyCushion

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Jack all difference for day to day uses....think 1mb l2 cache vs 2mb on the core 2.

Yep 1MB for the pentium dual cores and 2MBs for the core 2 duos. The speed is probably 1.6Ghz so it'll be grand for most people.

thehomeofDob

random wrote: »

What sorta graphics?

Do they offer interest free finance on it?

What size is the screen?

Does it have inbuilt wireless?

Yes they do interest free option finance, i.e. you pay 11 payments and then a balloon payment. What they won't tell you is that you can make as many extra payments during the those 11 months as you like, so your balloon payment is much smaller.

Sam Kade

I bought a dell inspiron 1525 upgraded to 2048mb RAM for €519.

johnnyrotten

What sorta graphics? - Inbuilt

Do they offer interest free finance on it? - YES

What size is the screen? - 15.4"

Does it have inbuilt wireless? - Yes.



Being using it for about 10 hours now and its a great machine for the money

johnnyrotten

3 year extended warranty available for €199
You can pay for this up front or pay €15 on purchase and then pay €18.40 per month over 10 months interest free.

johnnyrotten

Deal

Sam Kade

johnnyrotten wrote: »

3 year extended warranty available for €199
You can pay for this up front or pay €15 on purchase and then pay €18.40 per month over 10 months interest free.

That's nearly half the price of the laptop. You didn't fall for that? Did you?

Evil_Clown

Thats a great deal for a Toshiba laptop with 2gb RAM imo
Toshiba are a very good and reliable laptop
All you need to do is wipe that vista off and load xp pro

johnnyrotten

Evil_Clown wrote: »

Thats a great deal for a Toshiba laptop with 2gb RAM imo
Toshiba are a very good and reliable laptop
All you need to do is wipe that vista off and load xp pro

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the problem with Vista? Seems okay

Stephen

Slagging off vista is all the rage.

mukki

yeah them ba$tard$ in micro$oft moved about the settings and didn't preinstall drivers for every single old piece of hardware

Psygnosis

Vista is a grand I have it on bought machines here and never had a problem with it.

EKRIUQ

I have it on one of my computer's and it's a nightmare won't recognise equipment, slow unresposive, keeps freezing and its the most expensive computer I have. The other two Vista machines I have work grand

therecklessone

Is this in every Currys store?

Have a mate wants one but he's out the southside so don't want him to waste a visit to Blanch or Santry.

KdjaCL

therecklessone wrote: »

Is this in every Currys store?

Have a mate wants one but he's out the southside so don't want him to waste a visit to Blanch or Santry.

yeah they have to price match any item so Pc world Dixons and Currys will have that laptop for 499

i got one for the missus, and a mate bought one 3 weeks ago for 650


kdjac

johnnyrotten

Yep, every store

Dec4

What's battery life like? No details on Curry's website or elsewhere...

johnnyrotten

Full charge gives about 2 and 1/2 hours

mathias

Does anyone know, is there a huge difference performance-wise between Pentium Dual Core, and Core2Duo?

Theres a huge difference , the only one that matters to most users though , is that the pentiums are power hungry and run bloody hot , so I wouldnt be using it on my lap.
The battery life of 2.5 hours is the pentiums fault , you could probably expect 4 on an equivalent core 2 duo.

The architecture of the chip was completely re-designed when jumping from pentiums to Cores by the way. Theres a world of difference between them.

AlmightyCushion

mathias wrote: »

Theres a huge difference , the only one that matters to most users though , is that the pentiums are power hungry and run bloody hot , so I wouldnt be using it on my lap.
The battery life of 2.5 hours is the pentiums fault , you could probably expect 4 on an equivalent core 2 duo.

The architecture of the chip was completely re-designed when jumping from pentiums to Cores by the way. Theres a world of difference between them.

Not actually true any more. The current pentium dual cores are core 2 duos with half the cache. The architcture is exactly the same now. So there wouldn't be much between them and they would consume similar amounts of power and produce similar amounts of heat (the higher end core 2 duos would probably consume more power and produce more heat).

jayo2004

Vista is a grand

I know its off topic but vista has to be the worst OS since M.E.. Maybe after a few service packs it might be better but if you are looking to buy a cheap laptop with maybe 1 gig of ram only option is to wipe it and put XP on it. I have it on a quad core with 4 gigs of ram and its ok but everyday users wouldnt need that spec. They should have made a different version for home users..

TerrorFirmer

I think Mathias must have been thinking of the old Pentium 4/D architecture...

As stated Pentium dual Core is Core 2 Duo with disabled l2 cache.

Just in case anyone was scared away.

mathias

I think Mathias must have been thinking of the old Pentium 4/D architecture...

Indeed I was lads , first night shift of the month and a hasty post and I forgot about the revived budget pentiums ....apologies !