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2011/2/1 Guy Backhouse <hillguy@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:53 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: >> On 31/01/11 22:44, Roland Tarver wrote: >> >> > >> > Thanks Rob. >> > I did point her in the direction of Tierone from a previous time u >> > recommended it. Out of interest, have you actually ever bought a >> > computer from them? I too would definitely consider buying a new >> > computer from them (if I needed one). >> > >> >> Not a computer no, but I did buy the kids PS3 from them back in 2009 >> (just before Christmas) and it's still working fine. >> >> I gather some of the kit they sell is ex-catalogue, refurbished and >> returned stuff (for instance my PS3 had a damaged box but the console >> inside was in perfect condition) and ex-corporate stuff (presumably this >> Dell is ex-corporate). >> >> At £130 it's possibly worth a punt, you get a 90 day warranty and it's >> cheaper than some of the laptops I've seen on eBay which either have no >> warranty or 7/30 days. >> >> Rob >> > A word of warning from my experience; bought my refurbished eMachine > D620 from 'laptops direct.co.uk' with 3 month warranty, after the 4th > month both sticks of RAM mysteriously blew, 8 months after that the > motherboard died. Tread carefully! > > Guy In the end she went for new a Toshiba C660-195 Black (Intel Celeron T3500, 4GB, 500GB, 15.6", Windows 7 Home premium). I think her family helped her our with the finances. She also got a an external usb seagate hard disk for backups. :-) http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.210-4286.aspx She is going to let me "linux it" in a few months time :-) woop. ;-) Thanks for your help folks. Best wishes roly -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq