Laptop tekkies

[Guest Rbecca]

I have almost decided to buy a laptop here before leaving for Oz in Feb. I will need one between handing in my works one and leaving for Oz. If I buy one here I can get the technician at school to put on lots of schooly stuff.

Anyway I looked at dell who had been recommended by a few people but today I found a COMPAQ C350 for £550 (Intel Duo, 1024 MB RAM 120GB hard drive HD brightscreen, Microsoft Windows Media, 128MB graphics and so on). When I put together a Dell with the same specifications it was well over £800. Does anyone have any knowledge of this laptop or other recommendations?

Thanks

Rebecca

[Guest Nelson]

We had the same dilema.. we opted not but one here in Aus but instantly regretted it because they are so much more expensive here and I ended up askng hubby to bring one from Korea.

 

Has the model you are thinking of getting got bluetooth? and all the zips and buttons?

[Guest Rbecca]

I got sick of dithering and bought the Compaq laptop today. After much haggling (polite enquiry and production of advert from Dixons on line) I got a reduction of . . .£20.

It has almost every invention known to laptop-kind except firewire and I cant see me doing much digital video editing.

It gets upgraded automatically (ie they send you the disk) to Widows vista in Jan so I expect that's good.

It doesn't have Microsoft word and I use that all the time so I'll hopefully find a friend who can sort that out asap.

Thank goodness I finally did something since I am sick of internet researching.

Thanks for the reassurance about buying a laptop here though.

Rebecca

[mindblower]

Thanks

Rebecca

 

Hello from Shaw !

 

Keep hanging on , repairing old PC till OZ move, buy over there with right spec and warranty

 

Dave

Oldham- Perth