Scottish Elises

am looking to buy a laptop, but can't afford to spend a huge amout of cash (same old story). want to get a reasonably decent spec and after looking around have come up with this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/ ... oid=-31211

1Gb RAM
2Mb Cache
1.6Gb chip
etc etc

any advice?? either on Compaq, or dealing with pcworld??

cheers

ps a belated Merry Christmas to all the SEers

I'm no I.T. expert, at all, so take this advise carefully .

Louise & I are both on our 2nd laptops( in the past year (after break in)), both Dells, which have been good for us. Cheap & reliable. I would think for your budget, you could maybe get a better spec from dell. IMHO

PC World are generally known as sh!te but the price seems alright.
I wouldn't buy a DELL after seeing the rubbish they make now. We use then at work and out of 50ish machines, we've had to replace at least 10 of them just because of p!sh parts. 20% failure rate is pretty poor
And they're overpriced too IMHO.

Tom as a stoodent you should be able to tag on to the uni deals, no VAT etc.

Wendy and I both have Compaq laptops at home and have had no problems with them.
Mine is on for hours most days and has always been good.
Wendys came from PC World and at the time the proce was pretty hard to beat anywhere else.

Jim

Tom wrote:am looking to buy a laptop, but can't afford to spend a huge amout of cash (same old story). want to get a reasonably decent spec and after looking around have come up with this:

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/ ... oid=-31211

1Gb RAM
2Mb Cache
1.6Gb chip
etc etc

any advice?? either on Compaq, or dealing with pcworld??

cheers

ps a belated Merry Christmas to all the SEers

tom, i know the manager at CURRYS aberdeen. i could dfntly get u a decent discount on the laptop if bought from here.
krishnan

Apple do good student deals!