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a question before i buy a packard bell laptop
i really like the specs vs price for this notebook from packard bell
http://www.packardbell.co.uk/product...ber=P920400001 I've always preferred sony over anything else, i've bought two sony vaios in the past and sorta considered packard bell a cheap brand, but i guess with specs like this for this price i can be easily persuaded... i would've thought such a machine would've cost over £2000... I use the machine as a desktop replacement... I hardly ever take it out... so battery life, weight, and size are really ot that important... as long as it's not a desktop... has anyone used this notebook, or other notebooks from packard bell... what's your experience with them please... does anyone know of any alternative models from other manufacturers that offer such good specs for a similar price... |
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"Mike Henley" wrote in message
om... i really like the specs vs price for this notebook from packard bell http://www.packardbell.co.uk/product...ber=P920400001 I've always preferred sony over anything else, i've bought two sony vaios in the past and sorta considered packard bell a cheap brand, but i guess with specs like this for this price i can be easily persuaded... i would've thought such a machine would've cost over £2000... I use the machine as a desktop replacement... I hardly ever take it out... so battery life, weight, and size are really ot that important... as long as it's not a desktop... has anyone used this notebook, or other notebooks from packard bell... what's your experience with them please... does anyone know of any alternative models from other manufacturers that offer such good specs for a similar price... Seeing as you're used to using Sony's you probably won't notice much difference with Packard Hell as they're both on a par as regards quality and customer service - ie ****e Stick to the 4 major brands - IBM, Compaq, Tosh or Dell if you want a decent laptop. -- Apophis |
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I got a Packard Bell 3Ghz laptop from, of all places, PC World. Cost £2999,
but is a top spec machine. I can honestly say it's the best laptop I've used. Only one criticism, there is only one memory slot, so to upgrade to 1G, I had to basically throw away a 512K chip David McCallum "Mike Henley" wrote in message om... i really like the specs vs price for this notebook from packard bell http://www.packardbell.co.uk/product...ber=P920400001 I've always preferred sony over anything else, i've bought two sony vaios in the past and sorta considered packard bell a cheap brand, but i guess with specs like this for this price i can be easily persuaded... i would've thought such a machine would've cost over £2000... I use the machine as a desktop replacement... I hardly ever take it out... so battery life, weight, and size are really ot that important... as long as it's not a desktop... has anyone used this notebook, or other notebooks from packard bell... what's your experience with them please... does anyone know of any alternative models from other manufacturers that offer such good specs for a similar price... |
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Apophis wrote:
// Seeing as you're used to using Sony's you probably won't notice much difference with Packard Hell as they're both on a par as regards quality and customer service - ie ****e My first CD-Writer (1997-ish) was a HP. When it died, I took it apart and noticed it was full of Sony components. Is this common throughout HPs range of products? It was a crap CD-Writer. Broke down after thirteen months....one month after guarantee expiration. -- Lee J. Moore http://cafe-society.com |
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In article , Lee J. Moore wrote:
My first CD-Writer (1997-ish) was a HP. When it died, I took it apart and noticed it was full of Sony components. Is this common throughout HPs range of products? HP Laserjets (the early ones anyway) were built by Canon. AIUI HP only provided the firmware. -- Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk |
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"Mike Henley" wrote in message om... i really like the specs vs price for this notebook from packard bell http://www.packardbell.co.uk/product...ber=P920400001 I've always preferred sony over anything else, i've bought two sony vaios in the past and sorta considered packard bell a cheap brand, but i guess with specs like this for this price i can be easily persuaded... i would've thought such a machine would've cost over £2000... Well, if you are in the London area, you missed out here. When PCWorld refurbished their Staples Corner branch in November, they offered this very model for £599, for the first 30 who wanted it on both the Saturday and the Sunday. It would have meant queueing for hours, but that's life. I went inside to have a look. It is a lot of kit for the money, especially for £600, but there is one major flaw. It uses a desktop chip and the fans are permanently on. In fact, you could hear the fans droning like a small vacuum cleaner from a distance before you got to the laptop, and this was in a noisy crowded store. It is not something that I think any sane person could live with, despite the attractive price. From a build quality, distinctly average, with an average screen and outdated casing. I would personally go for a Sony or a Toshiba at the budget end. You can get VAIOs with DVD writers for under £1000 now, and the black onyx screens are excellent if you pay a little more. Packard Bell and Compaqs are a false economy and the noisiest laptops around. |
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"Apophis" wrote in message ...
Seeing as you're used to using Sony's you probably won't notice much difference with Packard Hell as they're both on a par as regards quality and customer service - ie ****e Stick to the 4 major brands - IBM, Compaq, Tosh or Dell if you want a decent laptop. while my experience with sony laptops has not been all that unblemished, usually something goes wrong with them within a 2 year period, i don't see why that's the case when they've always been known for build quality, at least for their other non-computer products. As for IBM, i can easily imagine that they make wonderful machines, though i'm a little suprised to hear that toshiba, compaq and even dell make better laptops than sony. I mean, isn't dell known for making cheap machines... |
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Mike Henley wrote: i really like the specs vs price for this notebook from packard bell http://www.packardbell.co.uk/product...ber=P920400001 I've always preferred sony over anything else, i've bought two sony vaios in the past and sorta considered packard bell a cheap brand, but i guess with specs like this for this price i can be easily persuaded... i would've thought such a machine would've cost over £2000... I use the machine as a desktop replacement... I hardly ever take it out... so battery life, weight, and size are really ot that important... as long as it's not a desktop... has anyone used this notebook, or other notebooks from packard bell... what's your experience with them please... does anyone know of any alternative models from other manufacturers that offer such good specs for a similar price... This Sony looks about right. http://tinyurl.com/xxs2 |
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Mike Henley wrote:
// Stick to the 4 major brands - IBM, Compaq, Tosh or Dell if you want a decent laptop. while my experience with sony laptops has not been all that unblemished, usually something goes wrong with them within a 2 year period, i don't see why that's the case when they've always been known for build quality, at least for their other non-computer products. I seriously considered a Sony but avoided after hearing too many horror stories about parts availability and questionable battery life. Not to mention my own experience with their dodgy Atrac software. As for IBM, i can easily imagine that they make wonderful machines, though i'm a little suprised to hear that toshiba, compaq and even dell make better laptops than sony. I mean, isn't dell known for making cheap machines... Why so down on Toshiba? They're a reputable company who make good quality electronics. I didn't really start to take them seriously until about three years ago. I still have the CD-Writer/DVD combo drive that everybody back then said "wont last", even if the speed is a little antiquated by todays standards. And a multi-region Tosh DVD player (SD-220) I purchased last year is astonishing for its price (from an eye-candy as well as technological POV). I'm only surprised at the mention of Dell. I'm not so sure about Compaq since the merger with HP, but surely IBM & Toshiba notebooks are the most recommended in this ng? I think Sony quality has nose-dived in the past two/three years. I had a Sony TV/VCR combo for a bedroom which was replaced three times before the whole line was recalled and I had to fight for a refund. And two months ago I bought a Sony Atrac walkman with the most appalling, short-sighted piece of encoding software ever produced. Like *anybody* has the time to encode 30 CDs in a single session because there's no 'save' feature; you'd literally have to have the computer running for days to burn a single disc. Not to mention the deceitful advertising. 64kbps Atrac files have nowhere near the sound quality of a 128kbps MP3. I'd rate Toshiba above Sony anyday...in the present day, anyway. -- Lee J. Moore http://cafe-society.com |
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