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Lidl Laptops next week, u gettin' one?

madmoe · 2003-09-30 14:17:13

Guys, Apparently they r on offer next week, have been told they come with a combo CD\DVD Writer, can anyone confirm/deny this? Also people who bought them in the past how have they been problems wise? A good buy yes/no? Would appreciate your thoughts as I am seriously considering this baby. Cheers

30-09-2003 3:17pm

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Guys,
Apparently they r on offer next week, have been told they come with a combo CD\DVD Writer, can anyone confirm/deny this?

Also people who bought them in the past how have they been problems wise? A good buy yes/no? Would appreciate your thoughts as I am seriously considering this baby.

Cheers

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#2 30-09-2003 4:02pm

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any ideas of spec/price?

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#3 30-09-2003 4:06pm

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Price is €1500, same as last time I think and the spec is pretty much d same as well excpet there may be a DVD burner in there this time. GFX card may be a better model, would love to see the flyer for myself. Somone on here found a link to the website of the ppl that make them but I can't find it.....yet!!

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#4 30-09-2003 5:53pm

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When do Lidl get their stock in?

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#5 30-09-2003 6:06pm

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http://www.lidl.ie/uc.nsf/pages/main.index
Gives message under construction but

www.lidl.co.uk has no mention of laptops.

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#6 30-09-2003 6:35pm

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Look here
PS I'm sure you'll make sence of it!!!

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#7 30-09-2003 6:42pm

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I reckon the graphics card is a Geforce FX 5200, as it says it's a DX9 card and I don't think the FX 5650 comes with a 64meg option.

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#8 30-09-2003 6:47pm

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I dont think that these are going to be available.
Greenmans link shows that they are on regional offer (Northern Holland). They're not on the German or English sites. If they were on offer here, they would be in the weekly flyer which surely one of us has seen??

As a matter of interest, is this that good of a deal? I think its ok but its not amazing?

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#9 30-09-2003 6:49pm

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its a good deal, but it would be allot better if they kept there dvd burner and knocked afew hundread off the top

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#10 30-09-2003 6:52pm

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Originally posted by madmoe
Guys,
Apparently they r on offer next week, have been told they come with a combo CD\DVD Writer, can anyone confirm/deny this?

They aint on offer next week (Oct 6th). I have the leaflet for next week, it is a digital camera and 64KB memory cards.

We tend to be a week or so behind the mainland in this regard.

(by mainland, I of course main the european mainland, and not any other western european off-shore islands).

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#11 30-09-2003 11:10pm

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Lads

im in france and have a few lidls in the area so ill check out what the situation is there - just out of interest!!! - not to say i woulf not mind a nice little laptop!

L8r

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#12 01-10-2003 10:53am

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I bought a Lidl Laptop about 18 months ago. 1400 MHz etc.

I have been very happy with its performance. I use it to rip DVD's to DIVX and them play the DIVX from the Hard disk. My kids love long car journeys as they watch the latest movies.

Some problems.
The Combo Torisan can not be made region free so I can not watch my region 1 collection.

My kids dropped the Laptop and damaged the power plug and socket. Eventually I had to return the Laptop to Germany to get it repaired. This proved to be a nightmare. It took 2 weeks to get the machine to Germany. Then they said it was not covered under waranty as the damage was accidental. So its was return it and I pay the transport costs or fix it and I pay the costs. It cost E150 to fix it and 6 weeks to get it back.

In summary it is like Ryanair, the product is cheap but if you have problems you will pay the extra to get it working. If you do not have problems than you are a winner. You trade support and customer service for a low cost item, but then that is the trend now-a-days.

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#13 03-10-2003 12:13pm

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@omathuna

Thanx for the feedbak buddy, good to hear of your experience with it!! Any more ppl got their views to add??

Cheers

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#14 03-10-2003 10:44pm

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yeah but u probably saved three or four hundred quid when u bought it!!!

so even with the repair u still saved 2 to 3 hundred!!!

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#15 05-10-2003 7:41pm

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I had the leaflet and I'm nearly sure it's available on Thursday 9th. It's on a seperate leaflet to the one that contains the clothes and stuff. Though it's mentioned in the top right corner of the leaflet.

I cannot remember the full specs of it as I left the leaflet behind me, but I can get it later and post full specs. I had thought that it had 17" screen though after reading the Dutch link above, I must have been imagining things. I do know that it uses an Athlon 2500+ XP processor, includes combo 2.4x DVD writer, etc.

I'll post more features when I reclaim the leaflet.

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#16 05-10-2003 10:59pm

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wolfman done a scan of this in the Bargains section

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118163

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#17 06-10-2003 12:50am

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Ah that saves me the bother then!

I would assume it's good value then. Not sure about the 1 year pick up guarantee.

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#18 06-10-2003 8:42am

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CPU could be a bit faster for the money too.

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#19 06-10-2003 12:47pm

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one year pickup guarantee is real but and this is a big but it isn't worth a crap if you don't have the original packaging as the machine has to be returned to Germany to be fixed and will not be insured for the travel without the original packing

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