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Rob

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New laptop for work.
« on: May 01, 2009, 09:36:10 AM »
After some advice. I have a budget of £500 to buy a new laptop for work. Need something fairly robust, with a nice screen. Any recommendations? Must be a windows machine. Ta!

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Re: New laptop for work.
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2009, 09:54:31 AM »
Gateway.  Seriously.  I have seen several offerings in that price range that are outstanding machines. 

I was surprised also.

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Re: New laptop for work.
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2009, 02:05:14 PM »
Thanks Knuck. My boss has now decided he's going to buy it, so I guess I'm in the lap of the gods. He is going to buy a machine with a blu-ray drive, mainly to piss off our IT manager, who's desperate for one :D.

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Re: New laptop for work.
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2009, 02:18:49 PM »
I had a coworker purchase one a couple of weeks ago.

I am working from memory here...

Core 2 Duo (not a DuoCore), 6Gb RAM, Vista 64, nVidia ??? video solution, large screen 17" I think, 640GB HDD, touch panel side controls for music and video playback, DVD burner (no Blu Ray).

Good looking deep wine red case.

I set it up at work.  Very little horse crap on it, snappy response, and solidly built.  If this had come with Windows 7-64, I would have purchased one.

8/10

BTW $600.  Yeah.  Holy shit.

11/10 if you consider pricing.

Ober.  Peck.  Again.  Yeah.  Holy shit.

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Re: New laptop for work.
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2009, 11:22:06 AM »
I hate Gateway.



Except for mine. Its the only one i have ever seen that didnt die, break, whatever. No complaints.
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