Notebook help

[Bulky]

Its been a while since i posted on here, but i need some help with a decision thats melting my brain, i have decided to buy a 'desktop replacement notebook', that i will use for gaming and surfing as my pc at the moment isn't being used as it is upstairs ( i need something i can put on the livingroom table), i have decided on the dell xps gen2 but dont know where to buy it from!!!
do i go to the dell store
www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&id=inspn_xps&l= en&s=dhs

and pay (with the specs i want) about £2300 but with a 3 year warranty
or do i buy off e-bay for the same computer £1699 but only with a 1 year warranty, now being new to ebay i am a little wary but the feedback is 99 odd % and i can pay by credit card which means its insured, do i need the extra warranty ????

[Paul K]

So is the question
"Do I buy this Dell laptop off Dell or buy this Dell laptop from a third party who is somehow selling it cheaper than Dell?"

[Bulky]

Originally Posted by Paul

So is the question
"Do I buy this Dell laptop off Dell or buy this Dell laptop from a third party who is somehow selling it cheaper than Dell?"

yeah i suppose so, but the warranty thing worries me even though the guy says it is new can he be trusted ??, i'm just paranoid i think

[Paul K]

Would depend on his rating I expect and you would have to clarify how the warranty would be honoured if the PC is being supplied by him instead of Dell itself.
I think you may need to check the sellers' ratings and other peoples questions of him. Do you have a link to the ebay item?

[AndrewJ]

Check out other makers, for the price of a Dell you may be able to get a Alienware 7700 or a Sager laptop dedicated as a desktop replacement laptop.

[Tricky]

I just bought one of these Dell's and must say I am very impressed, I got mine from the bargin outlet for considerably less than the normal price. I guess you are throwing every extra going at this already high spec laptop. I think a lot of people buy from the outlet and then put them on ebay - I reckon I could have done that and made £300-£400 straight away.

Outlet is luck of the draw, laptops come and go within seconds I was just lucky.

[Bulky]

Originally Posted by Tricky

I just bought one of these Dell's and must say I am very impressed, I got mine from the bargin outlet for considerably less than the normal price. I guess you are throwing every extra going at this already high spec laptop. I think a lot of people buy from the outlet and then put them on ebay - I reckon I could have done that and made £300-£400 straight away.

Outlet is luck of the draw, laptops come and go within seconds I was just lucky.

thanks to you i have just saved myself over £950, not quite the spec i was looking for but just added it up on dell site and it comes to £2244 and i just got the same laptop from dell outlet with a 3 year next day warranty for £1280 OH HAPPY DAYS

[SMHarman]

I did the same, the biggest difference in spec for me was the wirelss on the one I bought was b not g, but I got the replacement card from ebuyer for £10. Happy Days indeed.

Oh and the reason it probably made its way to the outlet, it kept crashing due to some faulty ram, except the fault in the RAM was in the 400+Mb space so most of the time it would work. The Dell ram diagnostic found the fault and the fix was done with a courier swapout so not much downtime.

[Bulky]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

I did the same, the biggest difference in spec for me was the wirelss on the one I bought was b not g, but I got the replacement card from ebuyer for £10. Happy Days indeed.

need a bit of help buying a wireless router now, will this one do ???
http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hard...quicklinx=38DV

the card in my new compy is " Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 (802.11b/g) network cards making your Inspiron XPS broadband-ready for high-speed Internet access. Integrated dual band antennae (2.4/5GHz) to support 802.11a/b/g wireless networking standards and BluetoothÂÂÂà ‚® 2.0 wireless networking options"

I presume it will do but being completely new to wireless networking can someone clarify please

[SMHarman]

Yes - Thats the one many on here recommend. You don't need to get the speed boost version as your card will not support it (you need a linksys card to support the speedboost), but being as the 54g speed is 10 times faster than the fastest broadband in the UK at the moment I would not worry.

[Raistlin]

Yep, that'll do you proud.

Don't bother with the speed booster version though (as SMH says, you won't get any benefit unless your Laptop has a Linksys card also with speedbooster).

Save yourself a couple of quid and get the "normal" one:

http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hard...quicklinx=2CM7