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Is this laptop I want to buy any good?

Below is info for a laptop I was thinking of buying from pc world, I don't know all that much about it but I want to use it for wireless broadband although I'm not entirely sure how that works. It has an lcd screen is that as good as tft or better? Intel Pentium M 740 Processor 1.74GHz 533 MHz FSB 2 MB Cache 512 MB RAM 50 GB Hard Drive DVD ReWriter MultiDrive 13" LCD Diamond View Display Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 64 MB Shared Graphics 1 Year FREE Warranty Processor Type Intel Pentium M 740 Processor speed 1730 mhz Memory Size 512 mb Memory Type DDR Hard Drive Capacity 50 Gb Optical Drives DVDRW+R9 Floppy Disk Drive No Screen Size/Type 13" LCD With Diamond View Graphics Card Type Intel 915GM Graphics Memory 64mb shared mb TV-out No Sound Type AC97 Modem Type 56k Wireless Enabled Yes No. of USB Connections 3 No. of Firewire Connections 1 Infrared Port Included No Other Interfaces WIFI 802.11b/g Battery Type Li-ion Software Titles Included Norton Int. Security Operating system Win XP Home Weight 1.970 kg Height 33.5 mm Width 309 mm Depth 221 mm Sorry it's £499.97

Public Comments

  1. Looks fine, should be under £600 with this spec
  2. very good indeed and wireless is so simple just ask in the store where u bought it from good luck :)
  3. try dell i got a better laptop cheaper than pc world with better spec. You don't mention a . I have wireless on my laptop you buy a router plug into broadband connection then you load the software onto the laptop the laptop should already be saying its found a wireless connection follow instructions and set up password .all instructions come with the router
  4. Yes its a good laptop for that price. Just don't expect it to play computer games very well.
  5. Check it out on: http://www.cnet.com
  6. get a dell low prices on T.V. but look out for the small print. They always get you.
  7. That's a good one I got from dell and it's great.
  8. Go for longer warranty if you can. 3 years
  9. its not bad, for work or internet , for me personally I dont like little screen 13" , I like it larger 15", any way its good laptop, if you will do any photo editing add more memory so you can have 1gig
  10. You have to ask? If it's what you need specs- wise and it's the right price, then go for it. Blimey.
  11. quite good, but check how long the battery can be use to supply the power to the laptop.
  12. This is only an OK deal. IMO the machine is very underpowered. 512 MB RAM (64 of which will go to Video) is BARELY enough to run Windows well -never mind whatever else you wanted to do with the computer. When you say you want it for wireless broadband, what exactly will you be doing with that broadband? -Chatting? camming? downloading? How many of these things did you want to keep open at once? (I use MSN, Yahoo and AIM, many times simultaneously --it can be a real drag waiting for video to fill in. Heaven help you if you want to start ANY kind of digital photography. Why invest in a new machine with that little bit of RAM. I say GET the Most RAM that you can afford. PS also consider the rotational speed of the HDD; this one is prob 4200 rpms --go for 5400 rpm or better if it exists in a laptop, faster rpms mean faster reads and writes to the disk also faster boot ups too.
  13. In a word "NO!" It's from PC World. Meaning it will probably be shipped with loads of software you don't want and can't remove (they install the software as the "Administrator" user but don't give you the password - Norton Internet Security being the main culprit), their aftersales is absymal and their staff about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Get the same specs from somewhere else. Try these: www.ebuyer.com www.novatech.co.uk www.stonecomputers.co.uk
  14. I would wait for windows vista to come out then buy one with that OS it will be cheaper in the long run.
  15. Wow. These are some real strange specs. I never heard of a laptop with a 50GB Hard Drive and I have never heard of Diamond View. 13'' Screens are amazingly rare from where I come from. 499 pounds (GDP??). I feel fortunate that I live in the U.S. where these come for 499 dollars on sale at Dell. Do incomes vary like that also ( Do workers who make 40,000 dollars here make 40,000 pounds there?). 1.8 dollars=1 pound