Post your laptops!

Qdos · 17 May 2008 at 18:17

Yeah it looks brilliant in the flesh - very very similar to a Macbook.

It came to £415 shipped - they had some very decent discounts on Vostros last month, glad I picked one up as they're not even on the site at the moment.

lay-z-boy · 17 May 2008 at 22:51

Brilliant value for money, 8400gs/160gb/2gb/t5870 for just that.

Update - 1525, 1720 + 1730

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Things change I've changed · 18 May 2008 at 03:04

Old is gold !

teaboy5 · 18 May 2008 at 23:08

Got this little beast the other day

D830

2.6 C2D T9500 (2.6GHz/6MB/800MHz)
120GB
140M NVS
4GB
Vista Business
1680 X 1050
9 Cell Battery
Docking Sation
DVD-RW
etc

£900

Bengaboy · 18 May 2008 at 23:36

teaboy5 said:
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Pardon my ignorance, but what laptop is that?

teaboy5 · 18 May 2008 at 23:42

schnipps · 19 May 2008 at 11:18

Just bought my first laptop, decent price i think although i would have liked the screen upgrade, i couldnt justify another 100 quid.

Vostro N0517014
V1700 CORE 2 DUO T8300 2.40GHz, 800MHz, 3MB
V1700 17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900)
3072 MB 667 MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (1x1024 MB + 1x2048)
Hard Drive : 320GB (5400Rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive no.1
256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

£490 delivered

TheVoice · 19 May 2008 at 11:35

lay-z-boy said:
Brilliant value for money, 8400gs/160gb/2gb/t5870 for just that.

Update - 1525, 1720 + 1730 :

Haha, the 1525 actually looks small there! Imagine an M1330 or something similar in that line-up, it'd look tiny.

Mattus · 20 May 2008 at 01:41

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1M. About two years old now and a bit dirty, but IMO still as nice as anything else on the market.

J273 · 22 May 2008 at 20:46

Just got my Hp mininote...Its the top spec model 1.6ghz

Loving it so far..Much better than the eee

Pav89 · 23 May 2008 at 09:03

Nice mini-note! If I get one, I would wait for the hardware refresh, which may contain the new Intel atom processors, HP said they will probably do this in 6 months depending on demand for a new processor.

It's a shame that the mini note looks 1000x better than the EEEPC, but the EEEPC still wins performance wise.

To put a via processor in a HP mini note is a crime!

norm · 26 May 2008 at 11:06

I don't understand why HP chose to increase the profile of that Mini-Note laptop by about an inch with those panel speakers. It's completely redundant. Either reduce the laptop size, or increase the TFT size. You see the same thing on the Asus Eee laptops.

MTA99 · 27 May 2008 at 12:05

In the basis of those pics (i've not seen one in the flesh) the MiniNote's build quality looks dodgy.

What's the VIA cpu like? Enough power for streaming media?

dalepearson · 27 May 2008 at 12:22

sid said:

I really like the simplicity of this, how is this achieved, specific theme or something?

Thanks in advance.

J273 · 27 May 2008 at 18:30

MTA99 said:
In the basis of those pics (i've not seen one in the flesh) the MiniNote's build quality looks dodgy.

What's the VIA cpu like? Enough power for streaming media?

Its built like a tank....made of aluminium like a mini macbook pro.

I dont know what all the fuss is about with regards the cpu its runs fine ...No problems here.

MTA99 · 29 May 2008 at 12:42

J273 said:
Its built like a tank....made of aluminium like a mini macbook pro.

Nice! Just looks like some of the panel gaps in the pic are a bit wide.

J273 said:
I dont know what all the fuss is about with regards the cpu its runs fine ...No problems here.

It's not fuss its just unfamiliarity. If it had a Core2Solo equivalent to a P4 3ghz, I have a reference for that, i'm familiar with the power available. The VIA is an unknown - what are your real world experiences? Does it decode streamed media both over the internet and (w)LAN? Boot times etc? We need more info!!

xb8browney · 3 Jun 2008 at 15:03

Kristoph · 3 Jun 2008 at 15:17

schnipps said:
Just bought my first laptop, decent price i think although i would have liked the screen upgrade, i couldnt justify another 100 quid.

Vostro N0517014
V1700 CORE 2 DUO T8300 2.40GHz, 800MHz, 3MB
V1700 17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900)
3072 MB 667 MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM (1x1024 MB + 1x2048)
Hard Drive : 320GB (5400Rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive no.1
256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

£490 delivered

How so cheap!?

I just looked at this...

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8100 (2.1 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® Vista™ Business with Service Pack 1
17" UltraSharp™ Widescreen WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Display with TrueLife™
3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (1x1024 + 1x2048 MB)
320GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
256 MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT (128 bit) Graphic Card
Glossy Black with 1.3 MP Camera

£711 Delivered.

Joebob · 3 Jun 2008 at 17:35

Dell XPS M1710
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz
4.00 GB RAM
200GB 7200rpm HDD
Nvidia GeForce Go7900GTX 512MB

Thinking about upgrading to a new one soon - can't decide wether to go for the M1730 or a Rock?

BoomAM · 3 Jun 2008 at 17:49

Hasnt the latter gone into administration?