Reasonably priced computers and laptops etc?

[Superphil]

and it turned up and it works? you'd pay that for 8GB of RAM or the CPU alone.

It did, and it does, cracking!

Is this the one mate?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Athlon-DUAL-CORE-AM2-5000-2GB-250GB-GeForce8100-XLgt_W0QQitemZ120338695711QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_DesktopPCs?hash=item120338695711&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308

No, this one Athlon DUAL CORE AM2 5000+ 2GB/250GB & GeForce8100 GAL on eBay, also, Desktop PCs, Computing (end time 28-Nov-08 19:00:00 GMT)
But with an ASUS M2A-VM Motherboard and the 6000+ processor and the 8GB RAM. Not sure if the motherboard on this one is particualrly differnet, not something I know enough about.

Not the prettiest of machines, but it is on the floor so can;t be seen really (the blue lights turn off), does exaclty what I want, which is to fly through Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, its running 64bit Vista Ultimate, and all seems to be lovely.

Not used AMD processors before but this one seems to fly, it is compared on performance ratings alongside the Intel Core2 Duo T7800

 

[bright1064]

Okay I'm probably starting to bore the shit out of people now. But I want to get this sorted. I've found a computer that I like the look of from PC World. It seems to have a pretty good spec, and at a reasonable price as well. Can all the computer boffs take a look and tell me if this is good value for money...

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0726380955.1227894856@@@@&BV_EngineID=cceeadefkilfdelcflgceggdhhmdfnm.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=320566&category_oid=

 

[Superphil]

Okay I'm probably starting to bore the shit out of people now. But I want to get this sorted. I've found a computer that I like the look of from PC World. It seems to have a pretty good spec, and at a reasonable price as well. Can all the computer boffs take a look and tell me if this is good value for money...

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0726380955.1227894856@@@@&BV_EngineID=cceeadefkilfdelcflgceggdhhmdfnm.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=320566&category_oid=

Don't want to be a damp squib, but in the past friends had a Packard Bell PC,s and laptopts and had problems. If I rememeber rightly everytihing is configured only for/by Packard Bell, modem/printer/router/wireless/RAM etc, making it difficult to do anything with the machine unless you use their hardware, their drivers, their diagnostics, their Virus stuff. OK if you don't want to do anything yourself in the future, but if you like to sort your own stuff out, configure software, change settings and that, then you might find the PB a bit of a pain.

My suggestion if you want control is to look into buying a PC that is not in anyway restricted in this way. If you are keen to go to PC World then go for their Advent range as I think they are "independent" machines. And try to make sure the kit is latest/current spec, so that in future if you want to upgrade the RAM, or HDD, Processor etc at least the technology inside is 2008 spec, not 2004 spec, so you might have a chance to do so.

 

[We're the Stripes]

You can now pick up second hand MacBooks on eBay for £300-400, and very usable G4 iBooks are knocking around for quite a bit less than that. No virus issues, straightforward plug in and play on most things, and they hold their value pretty well. Also most unlikely to blow up a year in!
You'd need one running OS 10.5 (Leopard) for Football Manager 09.

 

[Bozza]

Macbooks are lovely, of course. I'm biased as I'm writing this on a Macbook (of course, again). And if you can pick them up for £400 that's a decent price compared to what they (and this!) cost new.

Back to desktop PCs - this was in an email I just received from Misco...

HP Pavilion a6612uk Desktop PC - Misco.co.uk

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Have a root around here

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/