A mate wants a laptop

[ranmar850]

HAHAHAH That is so correct.

Go Dell, bang for buck on notebooks dell has the market in your budget range, I pass on their servers and workstations but of the many many dell laptops, I have had through various years personally and the hundreds I have supported in the past, minor minor amount of physical hardware issues.

WHS^^^
Bought my son a Dell four yrs ago, nil issues. Bought one myself in January..
2.something dual core processor
2 gig Ram
15.4' widescreen
Vista Home premium
wireless card
video accelerator card, yada yada yada
250G HDD
PLUS Office basic
under $1300 delivered
(inspiron 6400)
looked around, couldn't find anything like the price(without buying off fleabay, and I'm not goin' there)

And remember, MS office in
that price

[ranmar850]

or go to the PLE Computers site. :: PLE Computers ::

6th one on list

$828 ACER 5220 with XP, cheaper with Vista

Intel Celeron Processor 540 (1.86GHz, 533MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache),
2 x 512MB (1024MB Total) DDR2 Memory,
80GB Sata HDD 5400RPM,
15.4" WXGA Acer Crystalbrite Widescreen,
Mobile Graphics Accelerator X3100,
DVD-Super Multi DL Drive, 802.11b/g Wireless Adapter and Microsoft XP Professional.
**For a limited time only the 5220 Comes with a Acer Orbicam Integrated 1.3mp Camera and a $149.00 Cashback if purchased before the end of April 2008!, Thats only $679.00 After Cashback!**
*** Now with 1GB of RAM!! ***

Model #:

Celeron is like sooo...anyway, it's only I gig of Ram, if you get Vista you really need 2 gig to have it run at optimum, and why would you buy XP now? You'll be caught, like I was when I backgraded to 98se to avoid the horrors of ME, if you plan on keeping it for more than a couple of years.
And that 80G HDD is small, now. My Dell mentioned above has 250 Gig.

[19andrew59]

Thanks for all the input, certainly appreciated.
A purchase has been made.

[mark_r]

I agree 100% with Cam and nostars - I've been through 5 Acer notebooks in 4 years (thankfully I only paid for one) - and had mainboards replaced in 4 of them.
I am still in the midst of yet another warranty claim where my laptop has several trips to Sydney and back before being 'fixed'.

Never, ever, ever buy Acer - even if you have had good experiences to date, your luck will run out soon.