Good place to look for laptops?

[Accipiter]

Apologies for sounding repetitive about it just want to make sure I get the right one

I've been looking at NSpires and think they're brill laptops, thoughts on them?

[Recursion]

www.dell.co.uk

What on earth is an Nspire? :P

[Chippiewill]

HP Or Dell

Anything else is a far more substantial risk.

[Oleh]

www.dell.co.uk (http://www.dell.co.uk)

What on earth is an Nspire? :P

http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/nspire2760-blackedition.html?th=g - That is the laptop I'm getting for christmas. It's an nspire.

[Accipiter]

I was leaning towards HP prior, I don't like dells they have driver problems

But that NSpire is ball bustingly good, i'm only getting the 2430

Wonders if my parents would go halfs on the one you posted for crimbo LMAO Because 550 was my max pull out

[Recursion]

As much as I like Novatech, I wouldn't touch a laptop like that with a barge pole :P

Dell's do not have driver problems... period.

[Chippiewill]

I was leaning towards HP prior, I don't like dells they have driver problems

But that NSpire is ball bustingly good, i'm only getting the 2430

Wonders if my parents would go halfs on the one you posted for crimbo LMAO Because 550 was my max pull out
The 2430 is basically the same spec but £170 cheaper, you lose a hybrid ssd (Which aren't that good), 4GB of RAM (Near useless on a laptop), hyperthreading (Useless for anything you'd be doing on a laptop, even gaming).

The difference is not worth £170 by any stretch of the imagination

[Accipiter]

if thats the case i'll be sticking with the 2430

I want a laptop that will last, although my friends aren't careful with theirs I tend to see drivers give out in 2 or so years on them

Could you explain why you wouldn't touch it with a barge pole just so I can know of cons if there is any?

[Recursion]

if thats the case i'll be sticking with the 2430

I want a laptop that will last, although my friends aren't careful with theirs I tend to see drivers give out in 2 or so years on them

Could you explain why you wouldn't touch it with a barge pole just so I can know of cons if there is any?

Simple, it's not made by a large manufacturer (or if it is, it's some asian place no one's heard of (no offence to anyone)), you're likely to get lacklustre support in terms of hardware and worse support in terms of drivers and software issues. Hence why I would go for Dell, they've always been fantastic on the few occasions anything has gone wrong for us, even shipping out keyboards for free out of warranty and letting us fit them ourselves.

[Accipiter]

i'll have a look into the laptops themselves, my brothers an IT lecturer so he'd probably be able to fix any driver problems if they did have some, although i'd rather drivers didn't cripple in the first place which is why I enjoy hp

[Recursion]

i'll have a look into the laptops themselves, my brothers an IT lecturer so he'd probably be able to fix any driver problems if they did have some, although i'd rather drivers didn't cripple in the first place which is why I enjoy hp

You do realise drivers are generally made by the first party hardware manufacturers such as Nvidia, Intel, Realtek and generally not actually by the laptop manufacturer...? You're making a mountain out of a mole hill with this whole "driver problems" thing.

[Accipiter]

I just aint a fan of dells :( yeah I am but I think im really set on that nSpire laptop now haha

[Chippiewill]

Dell is kinda risky sometimes, considering the first (and last) Dell that I had encountered three power supply problems, three motherboard replacements and a disc drive failure.

That being said I went for an XPS series laptop and not many people get those, so build quality probably isn't as good as the inspirons.

[Slowpoke]

Amazon is the best for everything mate

[Ostinato]

All I would recommend is definitely don't buy from somewhere like COMET or PC World - WORST companies ever. Their aftersales is shocking, and half the time they sell crap but over priced products.

[Accipiter]

Knew not to buy from people like them, they sell to the imbeciles mainly, selling more excuses than products.

I've purchased this http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/nspire2430-blackedition.html

A (http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/nspire2430-blackedition.html)dded 8GB RAM

[Oleh]

Knew not to buy from people like them, they sell to the imbeciles mainly, selling more excuses than products.

I've purchased this http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/nspire2430-blackedition.html

A (http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/nspire2430-blackedition.html)dded 8GB RAM

Nice choice :D, I'm literally just about to buy the 2760 Black edition.

Tell me how it's like when you get it.

[Accipiter]

that 2760 is a beaut but just far to out of my price range haha, I was saying 400 pound max i've went 150 over!

I'll probably review it when I get it since there aren't many reviews on the products, if you custom build though the "3-4" day delivery takes 2 weeks LMFAO, 2 weeks extra just to put my 8gb ram in, fml.

I best not carry this one by the screen either!