wahey, i'm up and running!
I am online and e-mailing from my new laptop! It's not the Dell. On further inspection of the offer for £600 by the time you add VAT and postage and their seemingly mandatory £176.00 warranty and service! you are up around the £1000.00 mark!! bit of a disappointment really!
Whilst looking for PC World on the search engine I came across a sponsored link for europc.co.uk A scottish based company. They had the exact same laptop as a £799 one at PCWorld that they had sold out of. It was one of the ones I was initially considering.
Windows XP
Intel Pentium M 1300-600 Centrino
224Mb DDR SDRAM pc266MHz30Gb IDE notebook hard drive
14.1 TFT screen
internal DVD CD-RW Combo drive
56K V90 modem
£621.58 delivered inc VAT
(It is a Packard Bell Easynote T5 135 though, I guess time will tell if those Packard Bell warnings further up will haunt me!
I ordered on the internet sunday evening and it was here when I got home today (wednesday). It is what they describe as refurbished and looks like it has never left the wrapper!
I will say that I was concerned that the big box seemed not to have much padding in it and it did seem to rattle a little? hmmmm. Also the lack of an instruction manual for it is slightly concerning?
In the course of typing this my spacebar has started to stick a little. I will admit this is more than somewhat worrying! hmmmmm. any advice? Is it me or a laptop thing!
Oh well!