Dell Laptop €599 including VAT and shipping

unkel

Basic notebook but pretty cheap anyway

Chalk

where is it?

Fanny Cradock

that's great, wanna give a link or more info?

tadhgrrr

i think this is the one he was talking about ...works out to €599 if you take off the service package

wheres me jumpa

what do ye think of it? i want a laptop but im not going to spend a fortune on it so maybe this could be for me!

ClonmelMan

tadhgrrr ......... i think this is the one he was talking about ...works out to €599 if you take off the service package

I have looked but can't see how to exclude the service package?

XT_Dweezil

ClonmelMan wrote:

I have looked but can't see how to exclude the service package?

Change " Enhanced Service Packs"
To 1 Year European Collect and Return Service [subtract € 133.10]

And you´ll be down to 599 yoyo again

zod

jaysu$ lads don't buy that one :eek: - it's cheap but nasty!

If you have to buy one quick - heres a (very) rough guide

go to http://www.dell.ie/do

choose express shopping

change the search options to "Inspiron Laptops"

Click on the price column to sort by price

Buy the cheapest 510m with 512MB RAM - Upgrade the warranty to 3 years if you can afford.

Don't forget to tick the £50 (€79) discount at the checkout

lomb

zod wrote:

jaysu$ lads don't buy that one :eek: - it's cheap but nasty!

If you have to buy one quick - heres a (very) rough guide

go to http://www.dell.ie/do

choose express shopping

change the search options to "Inspiron Laptops"

Click on the price column to sort by price

Buy the cheapest 510m with 512MB RAM - Upgrade the warranty to 3 years if you can afford.

Don't forget to tick the £50 (€79) discount at the checkout

and the cheapest doing it ur way is 917+shipping so persumably 967 for a 256mb ram machine with pentium m 1.3 ghz cpu, cdrw drive etc.

599 is good for that machine, will do what most people need out of a 2nd computer.

bk

My friend got one of these, they are awful.

The screen is completely crap, it is very fuzzy and not very bright.

I suppose you get what you pay for.

dearg_doom

I agree, I've seen people asking for 400e for P3's in the buyand sell!

600e for that is grand for a solid office/internet machine if you *need* a laptop.

maidhc

The 510m's were starting from €650 on the "proper" dell site last week. Talk to them on the fone about the extra warantee, the sales people can often knock the edges off the €300 ot so dell look for at times.

Or watch out for latitudes on the outlet which often have 3 years as standard.

zod

lomb wrote:

and the cheapest doing it ur way is 917+shipping so persumably 967 for a 256mb ram machine with pentium m 1.3 ghz cpu, cdrw drive etc.

599 is good for that machine, will do what most people need out of a 2nd computer.

Sigh :rolleyes: There seems to be scarcity of the 510m at the moment but could you not look at the other ones! - it was a quick rough guide because of how nasty that one is. I know future proofing is near imposible but to buy that one you are actually buying obsolescence!

heres a 5160

Inspiron 5160 (System Identifier. 04MV3652)
Inspiron 5160, P4, 2.8GHz/533MHz/1M Cache,
English - Win XP SP2 Home (No Media)
Operating System: English - Win XP SP2 Home (No Media)
English - Win XP SP2 Home (Backup Media)
Memory: 512MB DIMM (333MHZ) (2 X 256MB)
Hard Disk Drive: 60GB (5400rpm) Hard Drive
Video: 64MB DDR nVidia(R) GeForce(TM) 5200 Go AGP 4x
Modem: Internal 56K Modem
Network Interface Card: Internal 10/100 Ethernet LAN on Motherboard
CD Read-Write Drive: CDRW / DVD COMBO Drive
Software: Microsoft® Works® 7.0
Inspiron DVD Cyberlink PDVD Decoder S/W
English - Adobe Reader 6.0
MISC: Inspiron 5100 UK Keyboard
Inspiron 5160 LCD, 15.0
BATTERY, 96WATT/HOUR, 12 CELL
D-Series 130W AC adapter

Total : EUR 759.13 (inc VAT excl Del )

unkel

zod wrote:

Total : EUR 759.13 (inc VAT excl Del )

That is a much better machine, zod. Much better value for money as well imho. But bottom line is that it is 35% more expensive than the one in the thread. Many people just want to surf the interweb and print a letter and the price difference can be crucial to them...

ekelly

I'm looking for a laptop, that i'll mostly be using for downloading etc. I'd like to have a CD/DVD burner. I'll probably end up getting an external hardrive so anything above 40gb is OK. Anyone any suggestions? I'm a bit in the dark about processors, RAM etc

Capt'n Midnight

If price is really an issue you could always try for a windows refund , might take another €40 off the price, months later...

Oh yeah at that price , no serial / parallel / infra red ports.

huh!

That original laptop posted can be had for € 518 now


dell

lomb

529 i think but with a cd writer as well, fabulous value compared to buying a used POS...............

The Muppet

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx?c=ie&cs=iebsdt1&id=inspn&l=en&s=bsd

The Inspiron 1150 from the above link is even bettr Value with a 15" screen 512 mwgs of ram a free all in one printer/scanner and Fax and free delivery all from €459 plus VAt. Thats a whopper of a deal IMO.

N.B the free deivery is only available until the 13th of April.

lomb

its better value for sure but u are paying for it. that 469+vat one has a dvd drive only, whereas the other one has a cd writer as well.
however it has more ram, a faster cpu, and a liion battery as opposed to an nimh battery so is def much better value.

The Muppet

lomb wrote:

its better value for sure but u are paying for it. that 469+vat one has a dvd drive only, whereas the other one has a cd writer as well.
however it has more ram, a faster cpu, and a liion battery as opposed to an nimh battery so is def much better value.

Hi Lomb, where is the Cheaper one with the CDRW I can only find the inspiron 1000 that is cheaper and it has a dvd.?

lomb

The Muppet wrote:

Hi Lomb, where is the Cheaper one with the CDRW I can only find the inspiron 1000 that is cheaper and it has a dvd.?

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_1000?c=ie&cs=iebsdt1&l=en&s=bsd

its the inspirion 1000 with cdrw and nimh battery which is useless frankly, ur one is better value as u say.

thats the spec anyway # The following are included in the Base: Mobile Intel® Celeron® 2.20GHz
# Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
# 256MB shared DDR SDRAM & 30GB Hard Drive
# 8-cell NiMH Battery
# DVD/CDRW Combo DriveXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
# Microsoft® Works 7.0
# 60W AC Adapter Inspiron 1000

Inspiron 1000, 2.2GHz Cel ,14"XGA Screen, 256MB DDR RAM, 30 GB HD, 8 Cell NiMH