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22nd Mar 07 at 16:46

http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/martprd/product/TOSHIBA/A100-027/438559

It's a Toshiba A100-027 for sale at PC World for £499, I'm thinking of buying it and selling my desktop PC so I have somewhere to put my (music) keyboard!

SPEC:

Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2060 1.6GHz
533MHz FSB
1MB Cache
1024MB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
Dual Layer DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
15.4" Widescreen Display
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
128MB Intel GMA 900 UMA Graphics
1 Year Free Warranty

I saw it at PCW today looked pretty slick to me, good value for money etc?

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22nd Mar 07 at 16:48

Yes I'd say so. Most laptops sub £500 have to compromise a little but that aint a bad spec for the money.

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22nd Mar 07 at 16:49

I don't really wanna pay more than £500 for a laptop, the cheaper ones seem to have Celeron CPUs.

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22nd Mar 07 at 16:52

A slightly better spec processor I think, better clock speed and cache but similar spec.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0781372225.1174582167@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdhaddkhihjglmcflgceggdhhmdgml.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=353575&category_oid=-27751

[Edited on 22-03-2007 by _Allan_]

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22nd Mar 07 at 16:56

I never heard of Advent, are they as good as Toshiba?

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22nd Mar 07 at 16:59

No Advent is PCW own brand I think. However I have had two PC's off them in the past and both been excellent with regards to no faults etc. Not sure about the laptops side. Someone might offer better advice however as they both have the warranty and most parts inside will be similar brands anyway. I'd risk it

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:12

Toshiba are wank laptops. Everyone I know that had a Toshiba laptop, broke. Hence 'had' being the key word.

Acer are pretty good for their money.

[Edited on 22-03-2007 by deano87]

Sam

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:38

Oh...

John

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:39

www.dell.co.uk

abdus

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:39

Sam, get a DELL

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:40

quote:
Originally posted by deano87
Toshiba are wank laptops. Everyone I know that had a Toshiba laptop, broke. Hence 'had' being the key word.

Acer are pretty good for their money.

[Edited on 22-03-2007 by deano87]

i very much disagree, we have some for teachers where i work, seem well built and reliable

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:40

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/notebooks_better?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

abdus

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22nd Mar 07 at 17:41

the Inspiron 6400

deano87

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:08

Or an IBM

Sam

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:09

IBM = Lenovo?

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:11

IBM use dells

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:11

quote:
Originally posted by Sam
IBM = Lenovo?

Had an X20, X31 and now got an X32 never skipped a beat...

Also had a T42 and T60 for a while but too bulky

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:11

quote:
Originally posted by John
IBM use dells

No IBM sold their brand to Lenovo, sponsors of the F1 team...

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:12

No I mean IBM as a company use dell systems, not sure about lenovo, I still woudln't buy one anyway.

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:12

So does anyone else think Toshiba are poopie?

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:19

quote:
Originally posted by John
No I mean IBM as a company use dell systems, not sure about lenovo, I still woudln't buy one anyway.

they may, but al the customer facing accont teams use lenovo items as it was historically the IBM brand, plus they are still paid royalties for Lenono using their design.

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:34

I have a refurbed T40 from BigPockets.co.uk, £350 inc carry case and telephone line dial up extending wire thing. Can't fault it as a back-up in case my PC has a spas or I need something at Uni.
6 month IBM warranty as well!

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22nd Mar 07 at 18:49