Cheap Student Laptop
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Does it need an os or not?
InspironTM 1300 £378
Intel® Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz 2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB
Intel® Pro/Wireless 802.11b/g
512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
60GB Hard Drive
15.4" Widescreen WXGA
Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
InspironTM 1300 £429
Intel® Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz 2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB
Intel® Pro/Wireless 802.11b/g
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
80GB Hard Drive
15.4" Widescreen WXGA
Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
InspironTM 1300 £378
Intel® Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz 2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB
Intel® Pro/Wireless 802.11b/g
512MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
60GB Hard Drive
15.4" Widescreen WXGA
Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
InspironTM 1300 £429
Intel® Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz 2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB
Intel® Pro/Wireless 802.11b/g
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
80GB Hard Drive
15.4" Widescreen WXGA
Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
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sorry for the hi jack thread....
just had a look....
it does include VAT and delivery....
these prices have come down since last week....
anyways....is that Inspiron 1300 at £378 a better option than this....
ACER AS3634WLMI
Processor speed: 1.6 GHz
Processor: Intel Celeron Mobile
Screen size: 15.4 inches
Storage (hard drive): 80 GB
Memory (RAM): 512 Mb
Graphics: 64MB
Price: £399.99....
is that pentium M CPU much better than the celeron....????
and will the 6 cell battery give me more power than the 4 cell one....for an extra £11 with d.ell....
cheers
just had a look....
it does include VAT and delivery....
these prices have come down since last week....
anyways....is that Inspiron 1300 at £378 a better option than this....
ACER AS3634WLMI
Processor speed: 1.6 GHz
Processor: Intel Celeron Mobile
Screen size: 15.4 inches
Storage (hard drive): 80 GB
Memory (RAM): 512 Mb
Graphics: 64MB
Price: £399.99....
is that pentium M CPU much better than the celeron....????
and will the 6 cell battery give me more power than the 4 cell one....for an extra £11 with d.ell....
cheers
My sister got an Inspiron 1300, pretty much the same as the second spec there (cost a lot more 2 weeks ago... 
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I spent a lot of time getting it set up for her, and I have to say the base unit is a nice piece of kit. Screen is a nice size and it's reasonably slim and lightweight. USB ports, Network and VGA-out are all on the left side though, which is a bit awkward if you want to use a USB mouse right-handed.
The software however... well I've never seen a system pre-loaded with such an unholy amount of utter **** in my life. Straight from the factory, there were 71 processes
So if you're going to be setting it up, i'd recommend paying the exorbitant £5 (!) for a driver CD, as you don't get any system disks with it. (No XP, no drivers. just ISP ads & a few applications) They've moved to a policy of using a backup partition to reload a factory image of your system in case you need to re-install too.
But after a complete reformat and fresh XP install it becomes a very nice laptop. You loose all the free trials of software, but cut out all the rubbish too.
(Just remember to hang onto the full user manual... handily stored on the hard drive.)
I really don't rate Dell much compared to a year ago... they never used to load this much rubbish and included XP & Driver disks as standard.
Well, that's my experience of the 1300 anywho.
)I spent a lot of time getting it set up for her, and I have to say the base unit is a nice piece of kit. Screen is a nice size and it's reasonably slim and lightweight. USB ports, Network and VGA-out are all on the left side though, which is a bit awkward if you want to use a USB mouse right-handed.
The software however... well I've never seen a system pre-loaded with such an unholy amount of utter **** in my life. Straight from the factory, there were 71 processes
So if you're going to be setting it up, i'd recommend paying the exorbitant £5 (!) for a driver CD, as you don't get any system disks with it. (No XP, no drivers. just ISP ads & a few applications) They've moved to a policy of using a backup partition to reload a factory image of your system in case you need to re-install too.
But after a complete reformat and fresh XP install it becomes a very nice laptop. You loose all the free trials of software, but cut out all the rubbish too.
(Just remember to hang onto the full user manual... handily stored on the hard drive.)
I really don't rate Dell much compared to a year ago... they never used to load this much rubbish and included XP & Driver disks as standard.
Well, that's my experience of the 1300 anywho.
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Thanks for your views on the 1300 WolfR1der,
After speaking to my brother in-law he is wanting to know if there is something a bit cheaper! How cheap can a laptop get!!
Have looked around and found this deal for £349-
Antler Lite Bag
Optical Mouse, 50pk DVD+R Disks
Intel Celeron M 380 Processor 1.6GHz
400 MHz FSB, 1 MB Cache
512 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
14.1" TFT Display
Microsoft Windows XP Home
64 MB Shared Graphics
The BIG drawback with this is its being sold by the big purple store!
Anyone else know of any good laptop bargains? Or even any refurbished/ 2nd hand recommendations?
After speaking to my brother in-law he is wanting to know if there is something a bit cheaper! How cheap can a laptop get!!
Have looked around and found this deal for £349-
Antler Lite Bag
Optical Mouse, 50pk DVD+R Disks
Intel Celeron M 380 Processor 1.6GHz
400 MHz FSB, 1 MB Cache
512 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
14.1" TFT Display
Microsoft Windows XP Home
64 MB Shared Graphics
The BIG drawback with this is its being sold by the big purple store!
Anyone else know of any good laptop bargains? Or even any refurbished/ 2nd hand recommendations?
zepto specs sure look nice but they aren't cheap, especially considering no OS come with it.
I have my own OS so its not a problem, but I find it hard to keep it under £700 when speccing a zepto lappy, whereas i can get some other ready made one for 500-600. But they tend to have crappy graphics
oh btw im fishing for a uni lappy too.
I have my own OS so its not a problem, but I find it hard to keep it under £700 when speccing a zepto lappy, whereas i can get some other ready made one for 500-600. But they tend to have crappy graphics
oh btw im fishing for a uni lappy too.
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Zepto laptops are cheap compared to most places, I havent seen anywhere else selling geforce 7600 laptops for £561. Once you have a copy of windows you never need to buy it again anyway, that is if you even paid for it in the first place. Theres so much pre installed crap on most laptops that a reinstall is necessary anyway.
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alfordc said:Hi,
My brother in-law is looking to get his daughter a laptop for between £350 and £450.
Only spec requests are a minimum of 512MB RAM and a DVD writer.
Any good manufacturer and model recommendations?
Cheers
Does it really need to be a laptop?
These things are so unupgradeable. Good rule is 'if you don't really need a laptop then don't get one.'
Has anyone got a link for this laptop as sum1 has already given the information but no links to where i can purchase this laptop or find more about it because i have around £400 to spend i need a decent laptop that is good for gaming , music, work , day to day stuff but laptops are different to pc's
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InspironTM 1300 £429 Intel® Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz 2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB
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InspironTM 1300 £429 Intel® Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz 2MB L2 Cache 400MHz FSB
