OT Bulk(ish) Buying Laptops

If I wanted to buy a number (say 6) branded laptops with Windows,
Office 03/07 and warranties where would be a good place to start
looking. Budget is about £1k each all in.

Ideal spec is smallish notebook form, 2Ghz processor, 1GB memory, 80GB
HDD, DVDRW, wireless. Which manufacturers to avoid?

 

Dell, Toshiba.

Is this for cack-handed railway employees? If so, I'd suggest
something semi-rugged like Lenovos. If you want something pretty,
Samsung.

 

"to avoid" being the bit of Sweller's email I was replying to, so
we're in agreement mostly - I old Toshiba Tecra self-destructed, and
my Dell (3100???) *literally* burst into flames as in, fire coming out
of the screen.

 

LOL, have you seen the latest Lenovo "Thinkpads"? There's been a
significant quality reduction, my T60 *bends*

 

Call Dell, they should take about 10% off if you're buying 6 with
warranty and software. Having said that, if you're sufficiently
organised, buy the extended warranty towards the end of the current
warranty and you effectively get an extra year as the extended
warranty runs from the date of warranty purchase.

 

that's a pity - my current X60 and the T42 before it are very solid.
We have some T60s in stock - I'll have to go and have a look.

 

That would have me puking my guts up bigtime. Even 1 pint + 1 bottle
would - I can't do mixing of beer & wine.


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I didn't mix them - even I wouldn't do that. No, seperate glasses were
used throughout.

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I've had good results from the HP laptops I've bought here recently
(apart from the truely crap HP utilities pre-installed on them).

Avoid PC World and their competitors - they sell overpriced,
underspecced tat to credulous mugs who don't know any better.

Phil.

 

Ah, that's ok then.

<rolls eyes>

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Whatever you do, avoid these new shiny screens. They're great if you
want to look at your face/what's behind you but unless you're in a
darkened room they're pretty useless IME. See [1] for a comparison
between the shiny and non-shiny ones.

[1] http://www.matbennett.com/projects/delltruelifescreen-61.php

 

"Wine after beer, you'll feel queer; Beer after wine, you'll feel fine"

 

Have you tried it with Tequila & Tabasco sauce? It rocks.

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Unlike Dell from you. Poor things.. I bit it's still in therapy from
the soapy dishwater incident.

Phil

 

Ok, it doesn't rock. It does make people pull the most extraordinary
faces though.

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As ever on matters alcoholic, the Ursine one has the right of it.

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I know what you mean. I _keep_ telling him "there's A RAT in the sepARATor"
but he still spells it wrong.

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You'll not be participating in this, then?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,2105959,00.html

· Hats off, next, to Inspirit Brands, which wins our coveted Piss-poor PR
of the Month Award with its recommendation that as London's 3m households
switch off non-essential lights for an hour this Thursday to raise
awareness of global warming, we should seize the opportunity to "celebrate
the blackout with the darkest and most debauched of all liqueurs - for the
Best Blackout ever, drink Opal Nera Black Sambuca!" Bravo.

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".