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Old 09-10-2007, 06:23 PM
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Typical...I buy what I thought was a very good priced laptop at the time (over £600) and then a few months later, I find in some german coffee shop that they were selling laptops in there for £400 which had a better spec than mine!

Mine is a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo with a Gig of RAM and a 110 GB HDD, the one going in the shop had a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 150GB HDD!

I thought to myself, has PC World ripped me off?!

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Old 09-10-2007, 06:37 PM
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Always the way Wig's, As soon as you buy a new machine its dieing
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Old 09-10-2007, 06:43 PM
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I took a mental note never to shop in big retail stores again (for anything over say £50?)
Just go up to London in the market for a much better deal.
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Old 09-10-2007, 08:01 PM
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Cool! i wanna go to the London markets is it relay like "Its not nicked, its just not paid for" or is it all legit? Either way im not fussed
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Old 09-10-2007, 09:36 PM
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No its all paid.
It's if you go down Tottenham Court Road like I did, there are LOADS (and I mean that quite strongly) of computer shops trying to outdo each other on price and you can grab yourself a serious bargain.

Whether you are looking for a budget or a top-class machine, you will get one much cheaper than you would do in the big retail shops or online.
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Old 09-10-2007, 10:14 PM
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well looks like i will be going capital city next time i need a new machine
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Old 09-10-2007, 11:04 PM
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Indeed, same here.
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Old 09-11-2007, 01:21 AM
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Some times you only have to wait till the next weekend...but months I'd not be to hard on them... a few months ago I gave $725.00 for my Laptop, and today my sister bought the same laptop w/1G more memory for $689.00.
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Some times you only have to wait till the next weekend...but months I'd not be to hard on them... a few months ago I gave $725.00 for my Laptop, and today my sister bought the same laptop w/1G more memory for $689.00.
I guess, if it was at the same spec fair enough but at £200 off and a better spec than mine I think is a bit much.
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When im on a real tight budget i go to my local computer fair, recondition laptops as cheap as £200 there.
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