This Week's Hot Purchases

[Spudgun]

Hi All,

First post an all, I was going to buy the 512mb Inno3D 8800GT, £144 inc vat that Kryten mentioned above but the price has gone up on Ebuyers to £158.84 which is still good but I saw overclockers were doing this for slightly cheaper:

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £158.61 inc vat

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

[Trem]

Welcome Spudgun, awesome avatar

Might change my name to Little Dave Hedgehog.

[Kryten]

Nice find Spud.
Ditto, fellow Bottom fan here

(PS, Dave is great for this atm, they're going through all the live shows atm!)

[Kryten]

BigPockets.co.uk Blank Media, CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, DL+, Dual Layer, 8cm, Recordable Discs, Epson, HP, Cartridges, PCs, Laptops, DVD Cases, LCD HD TVs, Free Delivery

No single deal that sticks out but generally they're a great company getting more and more popular, and deservedly so - some cracking prices! Go take a look.

Started using them recently for blank media and memory cards and quite happy - useful that they take PayPal.

[MYstIC G]

Asus Eee - £187.94 inc. VAT

[dysfunction]

I'd be more tempted at buying this instead:

BigPockets.co.uk: Compaq N600C Intel Pentium 3 Mobile 1Ghz Laptop, 256, 20,CDRW/ DVD, Modem, NIC, WiFi, 14.1 TFT, XP Pro License £179.99 - Blank Media - Gadgets - Ink Cartridges - Free Delivery

[Kryten]

Dunno, I'd go for the Eee.
The N600's go for £100 on Ebay with those specs.
The fact they're dressing up that advert with "new" things like the Pentium M logo says it all - it's only a P3, the screens pressure mark like there's no tomorrow and the touchpads are awful.

I'm currently wading through a pallet with circa 800 of those machines (and N610's) and I hate the buggers

[Tilda]

I love my Eee, best 200 quid I ever spent. portable, fast, cheap, wireless, fantastic for just doing work on a train/bus/tube/at uni and 1000x easier to chuck in my rucksack than a normal sized laptop.

[Kryten]

Aye. I'd recommend them to anyone, especially for the price.
But for anyone shopping second hand, some laptops that may be worth a look are the Toshiba Portege R100 - as thin as the Macbook Air and far better kitted out, the Compaq Evo N400/410 - not as thing but very small anyway. These are all cheap as chips now as too many people just think they're better off buying off-the-shelf from Currys or PC World with some crap machines going new for 300 quid.

[dysfunction]

Originally Posted by Kryten

Aye. I'd recommend them to anyone, especially for the price.
But for anyone shopping second hand, some laptops that may be worth a look are the Toshiba Portege R100 - as thin as the Macbook Air and far better kitted out, the Compaq Evo N400/410 - not as thing but very small anyway. These are all cheap as chips now as too many people just think they're better off buying off-the-shelf from Currys or PC World with some crap machines going new for 300 quid.

Where can you get those Toshiba Portege's from?

[Kryten]

Ebay for the second hand centrino's naturally.

Found an R500 on their a little while ago. About 3mm thicker than an Air.
And has an optical drive!

[TdC]

Originally Posted by MYstIC G

Asus Eee - £187.94 inc. VAT

seriously considering getting a eee for teh girlfiend. you guys say it's ok?

edit and a quick question for you: it runs a linux...any idea if you have full access to the command prompt, and if you can install software. I'm thinking of using it as a terminal, but I'll need it to talk serial across the USB port to my adapter </nerd>

[Kryten]

With next to no extra hassle you can run a distribution of choice and even Windows on it, should you desire. Plenty of walkthroughs on the net, which is unsuprising, as these little machines are getting very, very popular indeed.

[TdC]

coolies. I'm pleased. Think I'll be getting one

[Kryten]

Not much really sticking out for me so far this week, other than perhaps:

Samsung HD753LJ 750GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm *32MB Cache* - OEM - Ebuyer - Seagate 750gb 32mb cache HDD, £89.99 inc VAT.