To buy or not to buy?

[punky]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Ahhhhh........

take a look at this from here

Poxy PC World... Although i'd wait until Zing comes along, but I am 99% (but been wrong before)

Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2

Like the Intel Core brand that it supersedes, Core 2 offers...

The T5600 is definitely a Core2 Duo processor though.

[Ramrod]

No worries, PC world don't seem to differentiate either

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Originally Posted by Gavin

Poxy PC World... .

I don't care where I buy from as long as it's a good price.......

Might even mooch over to Sony in Bluewater later

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This looks nice but I'm not sure I can justify the price......

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Better price here ......

[poolking]

Since when do PC World know anything about PCs?

[Ramrod]

Worryingly, Sony in Bluewater are selling their lappys for the same prices as online.......as far as I could tell

http://shop.sonystyle-europe.com/Son...show&id=fall06

the one I originally pointed to is on discount. I dont like media centre but still

http://shop.sonystyle-europe.com/Son...shop=SST_GB_EN
click laptop pcs on the left then click bx series these look nice

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

I dont like media centre but still

Any idea about it's advantages/disadvantages? Bearing in mind the lappy will be used mainly for office/word/browsing....

its xp home . If you want to use it for business you can just turn it off anyway. Its resource hungry when it is running but see other point about turning it off

[Ramrod]

What do people think of this and this auction? They look very tempting but also too good to be true since those lappys sell for about £1600 in Sony shops......

wouldnt give you a kick in the head for either

[MovedGoalPosts]

you pay an awful lot for the Sony branding. Personally I'd prefer to spend that on a better specified lappy from an alternate not so high profile manufacturer.

In terms of range, and build quality for lappys Dell gets my vote, but there are plenty of other suppliers too.

[Ramrod]

Thing is, the equivalent 11.1" ish screensize lappy from ASUS (and I can't find any other manufacturers that do that screen size) costs a shedload more.......makes the Sony look reasonable......and Dell don't go that small......
@Zing...I know that the spec isn't that great but she really likes the size and battery life so it would appear we are looking for an 11.1" screen lappy......

what a waste she intends to use said machine away from a plug socket for that long then I take it? away from the world as it were for its main use? as buying a lightweight underspecced machine that runs for ages is only any use if your stuck in a field imo

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

what a waste she intends to use said machine away from a plug socket for that long then I take it? away from the world as it were for its main use? as buying a lightweight underspecced machine that runs for ages is only any use if your stuck in a field imo

I know, I know.......she hates 'puters and wants one that she can easily carry about (featherweight) and doesn't have to worry about forgetting the lead......so 7 hrs battery life and 1.25kg looks good to her.......I can see her point

Also, something that small will be very quiet.....another plus in her book....

buy her a pda or better still nip into smiths and buy her a few pads and a bic

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

buy her a pda or better still nip into smiths and buy her a few pads and a bic

She has cast covetous looks at my Axim x51v but I don't think she would get on with it's slightly fiddly nature. Apart from that, she needs a built in dvd/cd drive so that she can view x-rays at work (many are now digitised).