Anybody know where to get cheap laptops from

[mcquiggd]

Romania. Coming to a car park near you....

[Spacecadet]

You can get a basic Tosh from PC world for 399.

I know that don't want to buy there, but you ought to be able to get a similar deal from your favourite reseller.

tim

I got the same one, plus a free memory upgrade. Only went for it as I needed a laptop ASAP and didn't have time to go shopping round so decided to go as cheap as possible.

Only bad thing about it is the appallingly short battery life of < 1 hour. Turns out its actually a LOT quicker than my monolithic desktop at home

[BoredBloke]

Thanks for the advice and links. Had already checked out Dabs and suggected one off there. Had a look through laptops direct and they have some pretty good stuff - I may buy one from there myself when I need one after this contract.

Told them to steer clear of any celeron and pointed out the obvious point regarding memory etc

[lukemg]

Are you mad ? State that you only work with servers/mainframes/or have no techie hardware contact. Never, ever offer to help someone find a PC, install a new modem/software/cd off a sunday mag. It's a recipe for disaster/constant phone calls years into the future. Yes you work 'with computers' and are tempted to appear an expert on something. You clearly haven't got a clue about where to go so why pretend you have !

[BoredBloke]

Yes I do have a clue where to go - but I thought I'd ask here first.

As for the long term help, I have made it clear that I will tell them what things to look for (parts wise) but I'm not buying it and I'm not supporting it.