The Auditor
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Daughter is considering a purchase ready for uni next september ....What do the voices of NSC recommend
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Buying a laptop
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Happy Seagull
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I suggest you walk into a computer shop hand over your cash, take laptop home and away you go. Any problems turn it off and on again 
I suggest you wait until September. Prices are coming down/specs going up all the time.
The Auditor
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I suggest you walk into a computer shop hand over your cash, take laptop home and away you go. Any problems turn it off and on again
Well I surpose that was to be expected
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Both my kids recently purchased Toshiba ones for £400 each which seem perfectly adequate however I suspect your daughter may need word / excel as well so would have to be added to cost or just download from a recovery CD ?
ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
My and my housemate had toshiba's, and they both died after 1 year and 6 months. Mine was used loads, and hers not so.
I've got a vaio, and it's brilliant, runs like a dream, and for uni it's perfect. I use mine in lectures, as its not noisy at all.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
So we should expect laptop deaths in around May 2009 - yikes
ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
Yup, and you'll have to buy a new charger 6 months before, whether you keep iut plugged in or not.
Go to PC World...I'd suggest waiting until the summer end by which time new models will drive some great bargains. Also, you can get a student package and support deal at PC World which means dead Toshibas won't be a problem.
Good point, the online price is cheaper so do go in first then go online and buy at PC World, or elsewhere if you can find a better deal. The exception to that is you can go in and get a member of PC World staff to break up a package for you or sell you something they shouldn't.
ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
Do NOT ever ever EVER trust "The Tech Guys". They are shit with a capital S
steward 433
Back and better
use a sony vaio for work on 12 hours a day 5 days a week since i had it its excellent and i also have copies of word excel etc
Another good point, don't ever let PC World try and fix anything...not that they would given the Service Level Agreement starts with the lead time of half a century.
the kids had Dells 2 Christmases ago...out of 3 only one still working...one just died, one caught fire. and the third one's has had to have a replacement battery. naturally all of the problems happened just after the 1yr warranty was up! and we had to have 2 replacement chargers in the first year, but admittedly Dell just sent new ones through the post when we rang them up.
dougdeep
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murciagull
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Bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro just before moving to Spain nearly 4 years ago, used constantly since then, and had no problems.
Battery has just started to loose a bit of life but still lasts 3 hours no problem
Just my view
Battery has just started to loose a bit of life but still lasts 3 hours no problem
Just my view