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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 - 16:55 Quote | |
Hiya I'm after some help, basically I know very little about PCs as I'm a Apple Mac girl! anyway I'm looking into buying a PC laptop, I have no more than £580 - £600 to spend (hoping to get a business link grant!) The main use will be to check websites I'm designing/building and to use as a portfolio for when I visit clients :) Thanks in advance rachel |
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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 - 18:55 Quote | |
Hi Rachel I have just emailed you some Specs |
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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 - 19:32 Quote | |
Check out Dell, Rachel. I bought a laptop from them for £350 which, to be blunt about it, kicks arse. Should do exactly what you need, I do most of my web design work on mine. Not the most portable in the world at 3KG and a 15.4" screen but it's not amazingly large either. Inspiron 1300 is the model I have and would be ideal for your requirements. I've even used mine to edit video comfortably! |
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Posted: 30th Jan 2007 - 08:37 Quote | |
Inspiron 1501 i think now from £349 - not really good enough to run Vista on which should be a consideration - or you could go for a lenovo http://www.ssiltd.co.uk/products/notebook+computers/lenovo/?a=is Ideally for vista you need a duo processor and at least 1GB of Ram. |
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Posted: 30th Jan 2007 - 09:18 Quote | |
Get a MacBook and use either bootcamp or parallels and run XP and Vista - and anything else you need for testing. |
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Posted: 30th Jan 2007 - 19:42 Quote | |
I dont see why Vista should be a consideration - my ageing hardware wont run it and that's not a problem at all. I'll be sticking with XP until its dead then Linux is the way to go, Vista just seems like a steaming pile of bloated turd to me which will phone home to Microsoft at any given opportunity. |
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Posted: 30th Jan 2007 - 19:49 Quote | |
but how do you really feel Gary!? |
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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 - 08:57 Quote | |
I dont see why Vista should be a consideration - my ageing hardware wont run it and that's not a problem at all. I'll be sticking with XP until its dead then Linux is the way to go, Vista just seems like a steaming pile of bloated turd to me which will phone home to Microsoft at any given opportunity.If your getting new hardware then it should be a consideration - if you have old hardware then your right no point in upgrading. I wouldn't recommend linux as a desktop machine, we run linux, mac and windows here and they all have their strengths and place. The point with Vista is not just Vista is the office 2007 suite as well and thats where the time saving and productivity will come into it. |
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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 - 17:56 Quote | |
What's wrong with OpenOffice? ;-) |
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Posted: 6th Feb 2007 - 20:39 Quote | |
Gary the problem with Open Orifice is just that - Open. Anyone and their dog seem to work on it so there are no real cohesive standards. Wait and see what happens if the hackers ever really turn their attention to it. When almost every new PC comes ready loaded with Windoze the chance of the Orifice becoming the software of choice in the mainstream corporate world is very slim indeed. I wish it wasn't so but it is. I only have one client organisation that uses it and they wish they could dump it and go with Microsoft (they can't because they are a public authority being run by some bicycle riding jolly green giant figures in hairy tights!) |
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Posted: 5th Apr 2011 - 12:16 Quote | |
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Hiya
I'm after some help, basically I know very little about PCs as I'm a Apple Mac girl! anyway I'm looking into buying a PC laptop, I have no more than £580 - £600 to spend (hoping to get a business link grant!)
The main use will be to check websites I'm designing/building and to use as a portfolio for when I visit clients :)
Thanks in advance
rachel
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Posted: 5th Apr 2011 - 12:17 Quote | |
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Hiya
I'm after some help, basically I know very little about PCs as I'm a Apple Mac girl! anyway I'm looking into buying a PC laptop, I have no more than £580 - £600 to spend (hoping to get a business link grant!)
The main use will be to check websites I'm designing/building and to use as a portfolio for when I visit clients :)
Thanks in advance
rachel
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Posted: 5th Apr 2011 - 16:02 Quote | |
Hi Rachel Might be worth you contacting Jim Lewington of OrbitsIT. Link to his details below. |
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Posted: 5th Apr 2011 - 16:10 Quote | |
Thanks for the mention. Rachel, there should be no need at all to spend all of your budget unless you are doing high end work. If it is for everyday office tasks then Windows 7 with 3-4GB RAM and a dual or quad core processor and it will do everything you need. Feel free to give me a call so we can discuss requirments and prices. |
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Posted: 5th Apr 2011 - 18:14 Quote | |
A more than 4 year old thread......comes back out of the woods. I should think that laptop was being replaced since. |
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