what u think of this ebay laptop?

fjohnston87

heres the link

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170316551050&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:IE:1123

would love to hear some opinions on it, anyone see anything at all wrong with this and maybe how good the warrenty is on it?

thanks!!

Alanstrainor

What's the intended use for the laptop?

fjohnston87

wel il be using it for college alot and bringing it in and out of college with me so i wanted a 13 inch. theres one game i play alot, also storing and burning alot of music and dvd's on it. Basically i really like the laptop and want to get it but im just wondering is it worth the money? and i dont really understand the warrenty on it? and cause it a new enough laptop i was wondering if anyone has any experience with it?

fjohnston87

ne1 at all!!!!

majiktripp

What do you want to hear! Its a bloody good laptop, should suit you fine! Buy it!!
The warranty is 4 year Next Business Day which would be transferred to your name. Once thats up and running, any faults are covered and callouts for any repairs are carried out the next business day after you log the complaint. Pretty straight forward.

Black_Knight

Agreed. Good find there OP. If I was looking for a laptop, id buy that one. 4 year warranty from dell! Nice!!

samhail

I would get that laptop and i would be looking for a more powerful laptop than you would be looking for
also seeing as the dell website costs atleast €1330 id jump at it! quick

would be nice if he could upgrade the harddrive if you are going to be putting music/video on it. but u can pick up a TB external drive for 100e

Run_to_da_hills

samhail wrote: »

would be nice if he could upgrade the harddrive if you are going to be putting music/video on it. but u can pick up a TB external drive for 100e

Those large 3 1/2" external HDDS are messy, for about €230 he can have a terrabite built into the machine. 2xSATA 500gb 2 1/2" drives and a swappable caddy using the DVD drive. Komplett do Maxtor 500 gb laptop drives for €100

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SATA-2nd-Hard-Disk-Drive-caddy-for-DELL-XPS-M1210-M1710_W0QQitemZ230333871064QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_LaptopAccess_RL?hash=item230333871064&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

fjohnston87

ok cheers for that lads, think il get it so. just wanted to be sure, and majiktripp thanks but chill out!! was only trying to get someones point of view on it.

Black_Knight

samhail wrote: »

I would get that laptop and i would be looking for a more powerful laptop than you would be looking for
also seeing as the dell website costs atleast €1330 id jump at it! quick

would be nice if he could upgrade the harddrive if you are going to be putting music/video on it. but u can pick up a TB external drive for 100e

Personally, 250Gb is plenty on a laptop. Get an external for sure.

But if you wanted a higher speced laptop, check out what that seller has for sale. loads of slightly better speced machines.

Excellent find though. Keep us posted if you do buy off them

Run_to_da_hills

Black_Knight wrote: »

Personally, 250Gb is plenty on a laptop.

Not if you like HD Movies

Black_Knight

HD movies or not, id prefer to have an external rather then a whopping big internal... or several externals as my case may be.

welshy2009

ok think i gonna go for this one instead.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=190297758266

25 euro more but its 2.4ghz up from 2.26ghz, the ram is 3gb instead of 4gb but i have a 2gb one lying around. and dont need a huge harddrive as i have a big external one aswell. Mostly everything thing else is the same so 25 euro extra for a faster processor. not bad!!

Tom Dunne

welshy2009 wrote: »

ok think i gonna go for this one instead.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=190297758266

25 euro more but its 2.4ghz up from 2.26ghz, the ram is 3gb instead of 4gb but i have a 2gb one lying around. and dont need a huge harddrive as i have a big external one aswell. Mostly everything thing else is the same so 25 euro extra for a faster processor. not bad!!

I honestly don't think an extra €25 is worth it for 0.14 of a Ghz.

You really won't notice the difference.

welshy2009

really! but its always good to have, suppose its just cause i used to hate how slow my old laptop was and i used to upgrade the ram and stuff to try and improve it but it used to piss me off that i couldnt do anything to change the processor speed.

fjohnston87

sorry was logged on as my dads account there.

fjohnston87

got the laptop anyway and its perfect, so fast. Went for the higher spec one and got 50 euro off for keeping it off ebay and paying through bank transfer. Very Happy!!