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laptopsdirect - lenovo

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 2009-01-07 17:47:17

A Lenovo N500 laptop, 2GB Ram, 2Ghz dual core Intel chip, 250GB hard drive, Bluetooth, webcam, DVD-write. 400 snots with delivery. http://tinyurl.com/8hmnaw Just ordered one, brother needs a laptop. What a deal, this recession is unreal!

07-01-2009 5:47pm

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A Lenovo N500 laptop, 2GB Ram, 2Ghz dual core Intel chip, 250GB hard drive, Bluetooth, webcam, DVD-write.

400 snots with delivery.

http://tinyurl.com/8hmnaw

Just ordered one, brother needs a laptop. What a deal, this recession is unreal!

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#2 07-01-2009 7:29pm

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Even has the newest Intel X4500, with HD decoding. Definitely an awesome bargain for that spec of a Lenovo.

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#3 07-01-2009 7:44pm

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It is $395 + delivery on Dabs.ie

Link: http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=5CTS&CategorySelectedId=11105&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11105,50220000,50600

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#4 07-01-2009 8:13pm

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Ah cock! Just bought two laptops for people and this is miles better for that price

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#5 07-01-2009 10:38pm

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Nukem wrote: »

Ah cock! Just bought two laptops for people and this is miles better for that price

If yea bought them online yea will can return them once its within a certain amount of days distance selling law thingy

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#6 07-01-2009 11:19pm

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http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/HP_Compaq_Business_Notebook_6730s_KU438ET-ABU/version.asp

I was about to buy this for someone but this offer makes me think again. What you think is better ignoreing price.

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#7 08-01-2009 8:49am

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if mobile says the graphics is good I'm buyin one!

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#8 08-01-2009 9:09am

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zod wrote: »

if mobile says the graphics is good I'm buyin one!

Zod, From the online reviews that I have seen, the gfx is on a par with low end dedicated gfx from about a year ago.

pauly3 wrote: »

It is $395 + delivery on Dabs.ie

Link: http://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=5CTS&CategorySelectedId=11105&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11105,50220000,50600

As of this morning.

Delivery from laptopdirect(incl shipping) €402.41

Delivery from Dabs.ie(incl shipping) €415.68

Can anyone lend me 400 quid! Really love to pick one up

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#9 08-01-2009 10:35am

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I never meant it was a good gaming card, but it is very good for the price of the laptop. It supports hardware HD de-coding. And incidentally is about the same speed as something like the Nvidia Go7300.

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#10 08-01-2009 11:01am

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AH FFS I bought this for me ma last week from sound store in Cork for €500.

Still tho, she's very happy with it and it's a grand machine.

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#11 08-01-2009 2:13pm

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This does look like a great find. The one thing I notice in the specs is that it can only have a max of 3GB RAM.

Vista, on some friends computers, is functional with 2GB, so I'm thinking after using the computer for a year or two it would be good to upgrade the RAM to 4GB.

How would you rate that concern?

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#12 08-01-2009 2:26pm

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u never really get 4 and it's not a gaming laptop. so the difference in performance of an office laptop running between 3GB and circa 3.75GB is small enough (imo).

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#13 08-01-2009 2:28pm

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thanks

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#14 03-03-2009 1:37pm

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Hi all,

Which of these 2 Lenovo's do you think is the better buy?

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/Lenovo_3000_N500_Laptops/prod.asp

There is not much it in price wise, so at this moment in time I'm kind of swaying towards the cheaper one because it has 3GB of RAM.

What do you think?

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#15 03-03-2009 8:42pm

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hmm.. if you buy from them, you might be on this part of the forum next... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59265442#post59265442 :P

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#16 03-03-2009 9:01pm

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what games is this slab likely to run?

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#17 03-03-2009 9:56pm

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docdolittle wrote: »

hmm.. if you buy from them, you might be on this part of the forum next... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59265442#post59265442 :P

Thanks, ya I'll give them a skip I think.

I remember hearing a few bad things about directtvs awhile back actually, so was in 2 minds about making a purchase from these guys, so that link backs up what I initially heard.

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#18 03-03-2009 10:11pm

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How are Lenovo with drivers for XP, any idea if there are XP compatible drivers for this particular laptop?

My Mum bought a HP laptop and there's no XP support. The drivers refuse to install on XP, nightmare.

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#19 03-03-2009 10:22pm

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Just use windows 7 much much better. Think Vista is going to end up like windows ME

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#20 03-03-2009 10:42pm

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Amalgam wrote: »

How are Lenovo with drivers for XP, any idea if there are XP compatible drivers for this particular laptop?

My Mum bought a HP laptop and there's no XP support. The drivers refuse to install on XP, nightmare.

Eh... get the generic drivers. Wait, you're not trying to load the Vista drivers on XP? You have googled the motherboard type for XP drivers, yes?

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#21 04-03-2009 12:56am

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the_syco, not wanting to sidetrack the thread, there are no XP drivers.. at all, for half the hardware.

XP is not supported officially by HP for this run of models, you need to kludge dated drivers from other laptops and do a fair bit of registry jiggery-pokery.

General: HP Pavilion dv9700 Specific: HP Pavilion dv9910us

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