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Laptop PCs - my friend CR wants to buy one after Xmas for £800 or less, problem is I know nothing about laptops or the best shops wot stock them. Help!

― DG, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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― DG, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

by pc have you ruled out an iBook?

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

can you get championship mnanager for Apple? if not then I'm going to have to not get one

― chris, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the thing you see, I know nuttin' about laptop computers. He wants something that can run Word and connect to the interweb. I said he shouldn't bother with a laptop, they're rubbish, get a proper PC instead - they're cheaper!

― DG, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You should only get a laptop if you NEED to be mobile, as they are more expensive, less easily adaptable, and just BREAK more easily.

I do actually have to get a laptop, cause I freelance so much, and some petty fucker DESTROYED my old computer to prove a point, so if anyone has any advice to give on laptops (not a Mac, please- I do too much development in tools that require a PC) I would also be quite happy to hear it...

― kate, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i r thinking you ened fatnick to flog one 4 u

― geoff, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate's OTM here. Laptops are a monstrous pain in the arse to upgrade and repair and they're almost twice the price of an equivalently specced desktop. Tell them to get a desktop instead.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what if you have absolutely no space for a desktop? I know that would be the ideal solution but there's no way it'd fit in my box of a room and flatmate would be unimpressed with having it in living room.

― chris, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh, good point there, Mr Cabbage.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My iBOOK finally doesn't crash every five minutes. It's really great sitting in bed watching a DVD on my laptop. :-)

― helen fordsdale, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I screwed up my laptop when I spilled a glass of water on it. :(

― Samantha, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love my iBook. And it never freezes up; unlike my Windows machine at work.

― Sean, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can put a desktop on the floor to get it out of the way. Mine is currently hidden under the desk.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

championship manager is availible for mac

― Ed, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Under £800. HAH! He can have my laptop. OH HANG ON, IT WILL ONLY RUN NOTEPAD AND NOT EVEN FCUKING SOLITAIRE. Dammit!!! I want a decent desktop and when I do I will have the INFORMATION via the INTERWEB at my HANDS to run MERELY DOS on it and this will make me feel cool and geeky as opposed to someone with the most shit hardware EVAH. You might as well save up a bit longer and spend a grand on something half decent as for under £800 you might as well just use a solar powered calculator and write 58008 on it and giggle to yrself hysterically hehehehe that's funny.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 5 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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