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One of my neighbours is selling her Pink VAIO which is gorgeous. 1GB ram,
etc. I can ask her for the full spec if you like but she said she'd spent
over £1000 on it a couple of months ago and is looking for around £600.



On 9/5/07, Steve Roome <steve at pepcross.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:29:55AM +0100, James Tarling wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good site for laptop reviews? The reviews on
> > http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/ all seem to be a year old.
>
>
> I know it's a bit late in the thread, but I was in the same situation
> a few years back and ended up spending about £1600 to get the latop I
> wanted. Moon on a stick also. (with Windows XP Pro x64, which is dead
> in the water now it seems.)
>
> I think that now, nearly two years on I'm glad I got a near top of the
> range laptop. However, reviews aside I realise now that had I spent
> less money and upgraded things like hard disk and RAM over a period of
> a year instead I could have got away spending a LOT less overall.
>
> Say, nearer £800!
>
> The reviews really suckered me in, and for development I thought I
> needed something fancy - but after time, I've learnt the hard way that
> frankly I'd rather have the spare £800 left in the bank.
>
> One other thing, though lots of reviewed laptops claim to have
> line-in/line-out they often only have that if you buy the appropriate
> docking bay. e.g. mine has both, but only if I buy the strange many
> pin connector to go on the back for an extra lots of money.
>
> YMMV, that's just my opinion and all... spend less!
>
>         Steve
>
> > Or can anyone recommend or discommend models of laptops?
> > - I need something with more memory than I have now (currently 512Mb,
> > guessing I need 2 or 4GB)
> > - Windows user, but prepared to reconsider
> > - Need to run quite a few hungry apps concurrently (Eclipse, Flash,
> > Office apps, browsers, music player, maybe Photoshop)
> > - looks and weight not important. it can be ugly as sin - it just needs
> to work
> > - decent connectivity (wireless, bluetooth, a 3 or 4 USB, firewire,
> > DVI, s-video, line in/out, moon on a stick)
> >
> > Any advice, good experiences or horror stories would be much appreciated
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
> >
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