Stolen Laptop - Insurance Replacement

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I had my Dell Inspiron 8200 nicked by a burglar 3 weeks ago.

It had the following spec.

P4 2.0Ghz
15" UXGA Screen - 1600 x 1200
64MB ATI Radeon 9000 gpu
60gb Hard Disk

I hve been offered a Dell D830
Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/2MB/800MHz)
15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) UltraSharp
80gb Hard Disk

My original was over £1600 new, i am fully aware that it is unlikely that i will get a similar value laptop but the new models screen size is paltry compared to the original.

Are there any other laptops around that have a similar resolution to my original or should i just accept what i have been offered.

Any ideas would be great.
 
OK an insurance co .will rarely understand the difference between screens based on resolution, they've matched a 15" with a 15.4" because it looks the same on paper, the UXGA screens are available (and a hell of a lot nicer than the WXGA you have been spec'd), also if they are offering you a machine with on-board graphics point out that the ATI card you had at the time was above and beyond on-board offerings, you'd want something similar now. Bottom line find something similar in the same manufacturers range to what you had (dedicated graphics, uxga screen) and propose that to them as it's not like for like.
 
Hello Mate,

Sorry to hear about the Dell Inspiron 8200 being stolen, I've had one of these in the past and know what great laptops they are. I don't think dell really do anything similar these days, its very hard to compare.

As Avalon has said don't accept the laptop they have offered, they can deffo do something better than that!

Deffo work on the Dedicated graphics card & Screen Resolution as the key factors as these are the things they are most likely to try and skimp on (to be fair mainly due to lack of understanding I would expect)

I have had a look on the Dell Site and they do the Inspiron 1520 which is a 15" Based laptop which comes with an optional screen upgrade to 1680x1050 which I would think is fairly close to the widescreen equivalent of the 8200... It also comes with a NVIDIA 8600GT 256mb graphics card. However make sure they confirm all the specs as you don't know if they have some older models that dell / there supplier are trying to sell them etc which is not the current model, no problem with this of course so long as meets the specs of your old laptop ;)

Although of course keep your requirements in mind, the 8200 was fairly heavy so I presume it was not something which you took travelling daily? If this is still the case you could try and see if you can get a 17" 1900x1200 based Laptop out of them :) (IE Inspiron 1720)

Did your laptop have a carry case / extra Battery or anything like that because make sure they know about it if so...

I’ve had an experience with insurance when replacing my sisters laptop fairly recently, she had a 12” Widescreen based Celeron M 1.3Ghz Generic Branded Laptop but we got offered a 15” replacement and they tried to make out they were giving us an upgrade lol, there was a reason why it had a 12” screen being a portable sub notebook! After saying we wanted one with a 12” screen like the laptop it was replacement we got offered a Toshiba U200 which was a Dual Core £800 worth of laptop which was a lot nicer a machine than the laptop it replaced, so snapped that up J

Anyway hope this helps, have a moan at them and wait and see what they offer next time :)

Then let us know :)

Hope this helps,

Michael
 
Thanks for your comments.

I have got them to upgrade it to a 1920 x 1200 widescreen UKGA screen, they will not budge on the off board GPU though.

Apparently the onboard intel gpu is very good. Is it??
 
Glad you got the screen issue sorted :) I'd still push them on the GPU though, bottom line ideally you don't want on-board graphics even though they are probably at least as good if not better than what you had on your old laptop but you could also look at it from the POV that you've gained in other area's.
 
I have come back at them on the basis that i had 1gb of RAM previously and a dedicated graphics card. I made the point that a on board card uses the system RAM therefore i am worse off. They were not to chuffed but its a valid point.
 
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