a little help.......

beezer84

Hi all,

Am looking to get a new laptop, not looking at anything spectacular, something to play some football manager, browse the net, download songs - nothing too crazy. Have found a laptop with the following
COMPAQ 15.6" TRUE WIDESCREEN LAPTOP.
AMD 2.1GHZ PROCESSOR.
1GB RAM AND 160GB HARD DISK.
15.6" BRIGH VIEW WIDESCREEN.
NVIDIA 8200M GRAPHIC MEMORY.
5 IN 1 CARD READER.
SEPERATE NUMERIC KEYPAD.
HDMI CONNECTION.
LIGHTSCRIBE 8X DVD+/- RW DRIVE.
BUILT IN WEBCAM FOR SKYPE.
6 CELL LITHIUM ION BATTERY.
Am wondering if this is reasonable value at €399.

Any help would be great.

Holla,
Al

spyderski

This sounds like good value. The 15.6" screens are really nice - you get the separate keypad at the side which you don't get with the 15.4" ones. The only negative point about this machine is the RAM. You really need a minimum of 2GB, but this is easily upgraded. Ask wherever you're buying it if they can do you a deal on a RAM upgrade if you buy the machine - they should do it for another €30 -€40.

Black_Knight

It should do what your asking of it.

What OS comes with it. Vista would be a hog on that machine. XP is your friend there. Defo get total of 2 gigs of ram. It will make a nice difference.

Though I would personnally go for a dual core and spent very little more in doing so.

ecaf

Black_Knight wrote: »

It should do what your asking of it.

What OS comes with it. Vista would be a hog on that machine. XP is your friend there. Defo get total of 2 gigs of ram. It will make a nice difference.

Though I would personnally go for a dual core and spent very little more in doing so.

Unfortunately most places will not sell it with XP anymore! If you do find somewhere that will sell you this laptop with XP then I would recommend this instead of vista - although service pack 2 has seen some improvements. But apparently Windows 7 is coming out in June, but like Vista I would wait for the service packs to start coming out.

hotshots85

I'd say put e50 to it and get this

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-30-G60215

picked one up myself few weeks ago and its a great laptop... theres 10%off on the homepage so its onl 449
http://www.powercity.ie

Black_Knight

ecaf wrote: »

Unfortunately most places will not sell it with XP anymore! If you do find somewhere that will sell you this laptop with XP then I would recommend this instead of vista - although service pack 2 has seen some improvements. But apparently Windows 7 is coming out in June, but like Vista I would wait for the service packs to start coming out.

My dads been using Win 7 for a while now (their beta pack). Says its a big step in the right direction after vista. Its not as much a pig on processes as Vista apparently. Looks neat too

beezer84

Thanks for the advice lads, much appreciated. I took your advice and got the laptop from Powercity - love it so far and the spec is far superior for the extra 50 quid. Cheers for the advice on the sale, saved myself a few bob and got a good machine.

Thanks again lads!!