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insurance headache

  • 31-08-2009 8:43pm
    #1
    animal08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    I recently claimed for damage to my laptop, which was said to be damaged beyond repair....it was a Fijitsu Siemens Amilo M with a Centrino processor 60GB Harddrive 512Mb of ram and running windows XP. The insurance company offered me a toshiba with 3Gb ram and 250GB harddrive but with a pentium processor and windows Vista....Should I demand a Centrino processor or take whats on offer now??


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  • #2
    Johnny Bitte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭Johnny Bitte


    Oh definitely go back to them saying its not good enough and what you want.

    I claimed a few months back and the piece of crap they tried to give me was unreal. But I got on the phone and listed out everything that the broken one had and that I wanted. He called back 10 mins later with a savage machine, better than what I had.

    It looks like they just try to spec as close to what you had as possible but can get it a little wrong and in my case it worked out better.

    Although I tried to get a HP like I had they got me an MSI Gaming machine.


  • #3
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    What Pentium processor? Perhaps there was a bit of confusion. Get the exact processor. Seeing the kind of RAM and HD on the machine, i sincerely doubt it's a Pentium 4 or anything. Its probably a dual core of some kind.


  • #4
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    What Pentium processor? Perhaps there was a bit of confusion. Get the exact processor. Seeing the kind of RAM and HD on the machine, i sincerely doubt it's a Pentium 4 or anything. Its probably a dual core of some kind.
    I'd imagine Alanstrainor's completely correct here. It being just a pentium 4 doesn't seem accurate at all. If you get a proper processor number someone will be able to tell you what it is. having a P4 chip in that machine, even just going by HD and RAM that you've listed wouldn't make much sense.


  • #5
    animal08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭animal08


    Its a pentium duo but not sure what number will try to find out...


  • #6
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    animal08 wrote: »
    Its a pentium duo but not sure what number will try to find out...

    It's better than a "Centrino M" anyway. I'd still say the guy describing the specs to you just got confused, or isn't very tech savy. I can guarantee you that it'll be far superior to what you had.


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  • #7
    animal08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭animal08


    Its a pentium T4200 2.0Ghz


  • #8
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    animal08 wrote: »
    Its a pentium T4200 2.0Ghz

    That's a nice upgrade. It's a good Dual core processor. Take it. The new machine is far better.


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