[Gllug] laptops (was Sony Vaio)

[Sean Burlington]

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has anyone tried http://www.dnuk.com/store/notebooks.php ?

at prices from 705 (+ VAT) - and no M$ tax it looks very apealing to me

I've bought desktops from them and been very happy ...



On Friday 03 May 2002 2:32 pm, Martyn Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:16:08 +0000 Tushar Joshi wrote:
> > I was looking at that today, 512mb ram 30 gig HD 1.2 G cpu, 15'1 TFT
> > at only 1200 including!
>
> Yes, they're well specced in terms of memory and CPU power, but I've had
> endless problems with Advent.  I remember buying one from PC World,
> getting it home and using Windows on it quite satisfactory for a couple
> of days.
>
> I came around to installing SuSE 7.2 on it, and as soon as I did, the
> screen died horribly and I couldn't get the machine to work ever again.
> Went to PC World the next day for an exchange.
>
> I'v found that the Advent's hard drives are pretty slow and unimpressive
> as well - which is another reason why I don't touch them.  They also
> have pretty rubbish graphics cards.
>
> > Although it looks a bit tacky.
>
> And that's another reason - it's all adding up ;)
>
> > Although the HP presario looks very good it doesn't have a serial port
> > so I can't connect to cisco boxes etc.
>
> I wouldn't touch HP stuff either.  Your best bet is the Dell range of
> laptops.  They're always extremely well specced all round, and you get
> good support for them as well.  Go for Dell :)
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Martyn
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