Dead Men Walking

I'm looking for a small laptop that people can take on presentations to clients. Ideally no more than £1,000. THings such as powerpoint and media presentations.

Someone has suggested the Sony Vaio range and someone else the Averatec.
Does anyone else have any suggestions.

I've never bought a laptop - nor do I know much about them.

Any pointers gratefully rec'd.

Thanks

PEN

Ok what do you want it to do? If its a budget job look at the dell range if not i would strongly recommend the toshiba range. It should ideally have at least 512mb ram.

QuoteOriginally posted by GhostMjr@Jan 27 2006, 06:08 PM
Ok what do you want it to do? If its a budget job look at the dell range if not i would strongly recommend the toshiba range. It should ideally have at least 512mb ram.

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Thanks.

I need it to view large size images, powerpoint presentations and generally work as a desktop machine would. Also for showing clients their websites etc.

PEN

Inspiron 630m (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/notebooks_Q4_W13_inspn_630m_N01631?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd)
1.7Ghz, 512mb ram, 40 gb hdd, 14.1" screen
or
Inspiron 9300 (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/notebooks_Q4_W13_inspn_9300_N01931?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd)
1.86 Ghz, 512Mb ram, 60gb hdd, 17" screen, x300 gfx card

We do very few calls on the Inspiron range as opposed to the Latitudes

one thing i want to emphasize for dell systems is that their technical support is pretty poor you get transferred to anywhere in europe and they cost £0.50 PER MINUTE! I did notice whilst browsing through the alienware website that they have a nice looking laptop with good specs for £599, however to get that price i think you need to mail in a form or something

alienware sentia notebook (http://www.alienware.co.uk/Configurator_Pages/sentia.aspx?SysCode=PC-EU-LT-SENTIA&SubCode=SKU-PERFORMANCE)

QuoteOriginally posted by GhostMjr@Jan 27 2006, 08:18 PM
one thing i want to emphasize for dell systems is that their technical support is pretty poor you get transferred to anywhere in europe and they cost £0.50 PER MINUTE!

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Europe??? :blink:  R u mad??!!   All farmed off to india a long time ago (well most of it)

Upgrade to a Gold warranty and you'll get the lovely people in Dublin though.


Me, I dont even phone them anymore, drop an email with the service tag and the parts I want and hey presto next morning they're here :)

got an averatec last year when i was on my nice holiday to iraq, not a bad make, graphics card a bit week, i went for the top of the range 6200 (a week b4 it went ath64with 6240 :ranting2: ) and got an ath 2.4. not bad got a 15 inch wide screen, wireless and plays dvds without turning lappy on. only prob is fan exhaust on mine is on the right hand side so that me hand gets warm with me wee travel optical mice.

overall wife loves it runs win office xp brill and son does his school stuff on it. fan thou is a bit noisy

all in all not bad for £600 on an american base :biggrin:
6200 link (http://www.averatec.co.uk/products/s6200_tech.htm)
mines got a 60 gig hd and 512 ram

ps it plays cs and cs:cz and most dx8 games, even had moh on it :biggrin: in a word most 2-3 year and older games(in case you were wondering)

I went ahead and bought the Dell Lappy as it gave me more bang for my buck.... Thanks for the suggestions

overall very nice - could have been smaller but then I'm not going to have it moving around too much - just meetings.

Once question I do have though.

The lappy has a bluetooth connection. Does that mean I can buy a bluetooth mouse and not need to have any wires or dongle or anything? How does that work?

Thanks

PEN