€1500 approx to spend

calibre

Hi,

I'm looking to buy a good spec laptop for about €1500

I'll be using it mainly for office type stuff, watching DVD's and also playing some games so I'd want a decent enough GFX card.

Ideally I want to find some kind of interest free finance deal. I have been looking for a good while myself but I'm a bit swamped with all the options and the only laptop experience I have is with a Dell Latitude D600 at work.

Cheers

PS: I'd also consider a 2nd hand one

ARGINITE

Take a look at the Acer Aspire 5024WLMi.
I bought mine here for about €1350.
Dont know about getting finance tho.

calibre

It's ok, just orderd an Inspiron 9300 from the Dell outlet store an hour ago. Got a very sweet deal I reckon:

1.83Ghz Pentium M, 1 gig RAM, 80 gig HD, 17" WUSXGA screen, 256mb GeForce Go 6800.....for just under €1400

DublinWriter

Probably too late to tell you to go for a Sony Vaio then.

I find the build quality of the Dell's very 'plasticky' and cheap. Vaio's also hold their value a lot more than Dell laptops when selling on again.

Once you go Sony, you don't go back.

calibre

I reckon I'd be hard pushed to get anything near the spec I got for €1400 from Dell.

I don't really plan on selling it for a few years and I won't be lugging it around too much.

I reckon the sony's would be sweet though.....a bit more expensive maybe but sweet all the same

DublinWriter

calibre wrote:

I reckon the sony's would be sweet though.....a bit more expensive maybe but sweet all the same

Nah, I bought my Sony Vaio a year ago, 2.8 GHZ Pentium 4, 60 GB HD, Wireless, Radeon 9800 Graphics for about €1,300. They are a little cheaper now.

When you get your Dell, give either the 'G' or 'H' keys a good push. Watch how the whole keyboard assembly almost buckles. Vaio's are built to Japanese consumer standards and are as solid as a brick.

Brianb8802

Whats the address foe that dell outlet store??

I bought an inspiron 9300 last week aswell, but i paid €1450 ex VAT i got everything the same as you but only 128MB Graphics card and 60GB :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Pity i didnt wait a week

spartacus93

www.dell.ie/do

maidhc

DublinWriter wrote:

When you get your Dell, give either the 'G' or 'H' keys a good push. Watch how the whole keyboard assembly almost buckles. Vaio's are built to Japanese consumer standards and are as solid as a brick.

Complete nonsense! As the owner of 2 Dell laptops I can guarantee you this is not the case. I can't comment on Vaio's, but most Dell laptops come very close to the build quality of my old IBM thinkpad. They are not as good, but not far behind either.

The keyboard certainly does not buckle in either.

calibre

http://outlet.dell.com/Emea_Dfo/EuDispatcher?country=IRL&target=InventoryPage&lob_constraint=INSP

Brianb8802

Alright cool thanks for that. Site seems good, spose you just have to keep on watching it until what you want appears. Is that what you did calibre

calibre

Yeah, the stock list seems to change every hour so you just have to keep checking it. One thing I noticed is, when someone puts an item into their shopping cart (maybe just to check the total price and options even if they aren't buying it) it gets removed from the list for about 2 hours, even if they don't buy it.

I have saw other Inspiron 9300's for a few 100 euro more than the 1 I orderd and then saw others for about the same price as mine.

philtaylor

Yeah got inspiron too , savage piece of kit,

1.83 ghz , 1GB RAM , 100GB DRIVE , 17INCH With True Life , 256MB Graphic Card and DVD Burner for 1500euro

Anyone know if the XPS Packback will fit this thing.

calibre

That reminds me, I need to find a bag for mine as well. Any recommendations? I didn't bother buying the dell one

philtaylor

Yeah I dont know , might look at getting on of those computer sleeves for the laptop which can fit into your own backbag Nasa inspired too

http://cgi.ebay.com/LARGE-LAPTOP-COMPUTER-SLEEVE-CASE-PADDED-BAG-17-NEW_W0Q
QitemZ6802284037QQcategoryZ31521QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


(however as expensive as bag itself so dont know) Tried Dixons and they just have the normal suitcase ones .Defo dont want a fancy bag especially a dell or xps ones as it shouts rob me .

Any ideas anyone???

Attreu

Do the price on this site inc VAT?

I've got €1249 + VAT to play with and also need a recommendation.
Was gonna get a latitude d810 with 1.7ghx 1gb Ram and 60gig HD for that.

Brianb8802

If ye guys are still lookin for a bag check out pcwares clearout at http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=304116

€30 sounds good to me if itll fit the laptop