EuroPC offer: Toshiba A60

legofireman

Hi, I'm just wondering if you think this is a good price for a laptop?

EuroPC.co.uk are offering this for £399 ex vat, and £25 to send to ireland... so that'd be 615 euro in total.

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Toshiba A60, P4 3.06GHz,

- Toshiba - A60
- Windows XP Home
- Intel Pentium 4 3060Mhz Processor
- Notebook 256Mb DDR SDRAM pc333
- 40Gb IDE notebook hard drive
- 15" XGA TFT-LCD (1024x768)
- Notebook internal DVD Rewriter
- 64Mb Radeon 7000 (Shared)
- Sound on board
- Standard onboard 10-100 RJ45 NIC
- Notebook on board 56k V92 modem
- Three USB ports
- 0 notebook PCMCIA slot used 1 free
- UK keyboard layout
- 0 DIMM slots used 1 free

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Any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

secret_squirrel

Thats a fairly old spec - will still run reasonably - but a Radeon 7000 is a very old gfx chip. Will still be better than some of the newer onboard graphics but not by much.

No wireless networking either.

I reckon you could do better....even a new dell for a bit more.

legofireman

cool, thanks i really appreciate your help.

i checked out the dell outlet store but the laptops they offer seem to have worse specs... for example 1.3GHz instead of 3... dvd-rom, instead of DVD Rewriter... 56k modem instead of 10/100 LAN...

i assumed that a 3GHz laptop would be way better than a 1.3GHz one... and i assumed that GHz and RAM were the two main things to look out for... am i wrong?

thanks again!

Fenster

I had trouble getting 500 euro for mine-an identical spec-a few weeks back.

secret_squirrel

Careful on Ghz since there are 3 types of intel chips in laptops.

Celeron-m's are lousy and should be avoided if at all possible. They will have speeds from about 2.4Ghz upwards.

Pentium4-m's will have speeds from 2.8-3.4Ghz and are powerful but have very restricted battery life. These are usually found in desktop replacement laptops.

Pentium-m's will range from 1.3Ghz to 2Ghz and will be almost as powerful as a p4 that is marked upto 1Ghz faster. The will offer the best battery life and the give little away interms of speed.

An AMD Athlon64m or Turion will also be a rare but good buy. But not as good as as the P-m's.

Memory more is better.
Disc more is better.
Wifi 802.11b/a/g (any combination) is almost a must on any laptop that you want to travel with.

legofireman

thanks, i'll definitely use that as a guide.

if anyone has any recommendations for a laptop for around 600 -650, please let me know! thanks!

legofireman

perhaps this Acer Aspire 50002LM for 673.905 + postage from the UK? (http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=3248&category_id=86&manufacturer_id=0)

AMD Turion 1.6GHz / 512MB DDR
60GB HDD / DVD Dual
64MB SIS Shared / 15” XGA

legofireman

it's a bit cheaper here... here

do you think this is a good buy?

thanks!