If You Had £2k

LOL at even needing to ask whether you should buy a car and learn to drive or buy a glorified, overpriced laptop.

Option 1 gives you: An overpriced laptop that does little better than one a quarter of it's price.

Option 2 gives you: A car, the ability to drive the car, freedom, lots of nice new clothes, AND a £500 laptop.

If you are honestly struggling to make this decision, it is true what they say about Apple fanboys.

EDIT: I've just looked at Apple MacBook Pro's - £1939.00 for this spec (17 inch):

  • 2.53GHz Intel Core i5
  • 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2X2GB
  • 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
  • SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
After about 3 minutes of searching i found this Samsung laptop...for £647:

Processor Brand:IntelProcessor
Speed:2.66 GHzProcessor
Type:Intel Core i5
Hard Drive Size:640 GBHard Disk
Rotational Speed:5400 rpm
Computer Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Operating System:Windows 7 Edition Home Premium
Graphics Card Description:ATI HD5470
Graphics Card Ram Size:1 GB
Graphics RAM Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Screen Size:17.3 inches
Display Technology:LED
Light Source Type:LED

Jeez, i knew Apple stuff was overpriced, but i never realised it was this bad :eek:
 
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Frozo said:
As the title says, what would you spend it on and why?

The reason I'm asking is I might be coming into some money (£2k) and I have two options:

Option 1:

- Buy MBP 15" (When they get refreshed)


Option 2:

- Put £1k towards a car
- Put around £300 towards driving lessons (Currently have £100 towards that atm)
- Spend around £200 on new clothes
- Then either trying and find a decent laptop for around £400 or put the £500 in the bank for savings?
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Driving lessons = Driving Licence = Driving = Women = good times
 
Gaygle said:
LOL at even needing to ask whether you should buy a car and learn to drive or buy a glorified, overpriced laptop.
After about 3 minutes of searching i found this Samsung laptop...for £647:

Processor Brand:IntelProcessor
Speed:2.66 GHzProcessor
Type:Intel Core i5
Hard Drive Size:640 GBHard Disk
Rotational Speed:5400 rpm
Computer Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Operating System:Windows 7 Edition Home Premium
Graphics Card Description:ATI HD5470
Graphics Card Ram Size:1 GB
Graphics RAM Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Screen Size:17.3 inches
Display Technology:LED
Light Source Type:LED

Jeez, i knew Apple stuff was overpriced, but i never realised it was this bad :eek:
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That Samsung looks very nice :o Didn't really think to compare between the MBP and other laptops, the main reason I like MBP's are; the style, the easy OS, the quality and the different programmes that you can have which Windows doesn't

I think I will have to go for the driving lessons and Clothes and then just store the rest in the bank for as and when I need it
 
Frozo said:
Seems as the majority are saying Driving Lessons, So I might go with that and at least pass and then start to think about cars after and then use another £200 for clothes and save the 1.5k in the bank
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Sounds like a sensible plan...

Even if you don't get a car yet (and you won't strictly need/be able to afford to run one at uni anyway) - getting your licence is a good use of money. You won't regret saving the rest of it for the time being.

Definitely forget the MBP idea! If you're doing a course that needs Mac-specific software, get OSX running on a PC of some description.
 
paid the mortgage off some months back so treated myself to some stuff like a g20 plasma and a bluray ,new bathroom ,room carpet ect ect but as the cars needed cam belt ect dont seem to have saved much ,in my case id buy maybe £100s worth of bluray boxsets and save the rest
 
I don't really want a desktop PC again but if I was to spend say £700 - £800 what could I get? AMD :p

This would save me a lot of money and might last longer.

I would also have more to save in the bank :)

Edit: I've got a monitor and OS
 
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