This Week's Hot Purchases

[nath]

Actually, I didn't mean *give* her my Lenovo.. I'm selling it to her for 200. She was in the market for a laptop for 350 anyway so everyone's a winner .

 

[Kryten]

Gone up in price, it looks like it was due to a cashback offer from HP after reading a little more into it. £389 still isn't too bad.
HP Compaq 6735s Notebook PC overview - HP Small & Medium Business products

 

[nath]

What was the price originally? I only ever saw it at £389.99.

 

[Kryten]

359.99, only 30 quid and it still appears to be a fair price

 

[nath]

Eep.. ach well, you're right it is still a good price. I'll let you know how bitchin' it is when it arrives.

 

[Embattle]

Leadtek GeForce GTX 280 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Should be pointed out all the GTX280s have gone down, this could be due to the soon to be released GTX285.

 

[dysfunction]

This is not a bad deal at the moment really:

MESH Computers - Award Winning Review PCs Since 1987 - Elite i7x (NY 2)

 

[Fast]

Wireless Router

less than £20 including delivery
Plexus Wireless-G ADSL2+ Modem Router **PRICE DROP** - Ebuyer

 

[Kryten]

Nice, Fast - not going to be top end but without doubt better than most the crap provided by ISPs these days /shakes fist at his speedtouch from O2/Be

Anyway, I may have been wrong about the memory prices - or at least suppliers are being a bit defiant:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/154644

4gb of OCZ Titanium - £35


**Edited because I'm clearly a mong

 

[Yaka]

fix0r teh link0r f00!

 

[Earl]

24" HDMI, Full HD (1920x1080) Iiyama ProLite E2407HDS-1 Monitor - £177.09 (£171.78 using voucher) + delivery @ Saverstore - HotUKDeals Forum

24" HDMI, Full HD (1920x1080) Iiyama ProLite E2407HDS-1 Monitor - £180 delivered

 

[Kryten]

Christ that's a cracking price. Iiyama aren't quite as good with their TFT's as they were with CRT screens but that's besides the point - 24" with all those inputs for a shade over £170 - bloody bargain imo.

 

[kirennia]

Monitors upto 22" are stupidly priced at the moment...

Samsung SM2023NW 20"TFT Monitor 1680x1050 1000:1 300cd/m2 5ms VGA Silver/Black 3 Years On-Site Warranty - Ebuyer 20" for £105. It's the monitor I bought 2 and a bit years ago and it's still working perfectly.

Samsung SM2220LM 22" TFT Monitor 1680x1050 1000:1 300cd/m2 5ms VGA Glossy Black 3 Years On-Site Warranty - Ebuyer 22" for £125. The model up from mine.

Very tempted to get myself that 22" one and use the 20" for a 2nd monitor...

 

[Earl]

Christ that's a cracking price. Iiyama aren't quite as good with their TFT's as they were with CRT screens but that's besides the point - 24" with all those inputs for a shade over £170 - bloody bargain imo.

Seemed like a steal, hopefully the website is legit.

I also got:
wii vga cable
xbox 360 vga cable
2x RCA female to 3.5mm
3.5mm female to female stereo socket

Hopefully this will allow me to use this monitor and still take advantage of my 2.1 (but pretty good) speakers. I'm not a cable geek, quite the opposite, so hopefully I've not got this all wrong.

 

[Kryten]

For those of you unfortunate enough to have bought a Seagate hard drive (and not wanting to keep running it, as per the thread I'm about to create) or just about to look for a 1tb unit:

1TB Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1, SATA 300, 7200 rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ - Scan.co.uk

 

[Raven]

You really can't go wrong with a spinpoint, bought one a couple of months ago to serve as a media drive.

 

[Yaka]

i agree spin;points are great recently against my better judgement whent for a seagate 1.5tb drive as it had more space

then i read this

Seagate customers swamped by Barracuda drive failures ? The Register

 

[kirennia]

For those of you unfortunate enough to have bought a Seagate hard drive (and not wanting to keep running it, as per the thread I'm about to create) or just about to look for a 1tb unit:

1TB Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1, SATA 300, 7200 rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ - Scan.co.uk

Funnily enough I ordered one of these today as I finally got around to sorting out my computer... was very surprised to see the cost of them with a 32mb cache as well. £75 on ebuyer too... don't see how other harddrive manufacturers are going to compete against that unless they drop their prices too which is good news for all us consumers

 

[Kryten]

Nice cheap graphics card

newsletter - Aria Technology

 

[Wazzerphuk]

That is far too styled to go inside a machine. What a waste.

 

[Uara]

Kryten that's awesome, I may have to treat myself to that card!

 

[ciaphas2037]

I was looking at the Acer 5920g (without the blu-ray player) for about £450 at laptopsdirect.com, unfortunately i can't find it any more. Anyone know where I can get it or a decent alternative (4gb ram, 256mb dedicated graphics etc.) for around the same price?

 

[Kryten]

Nearest I can find is 600 quid from Play.com but thats with Bluray. Laptopdirect's price seems far too low tbh, looking at an expired link the only one near that I could see was a refurb.

 

[dysfunction]

I was looking at the Acer 5920g (without the blu-ray player) for about £450 at laptopsdirect.com, unfortunately i can't find it any more. Anyone know where I can get it or a decent alternative (4gb ram, 256mb dedicated graphics etc.) for around the same price?

You could go for something like this:

MESH Computers - Award Winning Review PCs Since 1987 - ASUS X59GL

or alternatively this:

Acer Aspire 5920G Laptop LX.AQB0X.612 - Laptops Direct

 

[ciaphas2037]

Oh well, thanks for the help, that was a pretty good deal I just missed

 

[Dreamor]

Kryt, any advice for a decent (<£100) sound card?

Cheers
Dreamor

 

[inactionman]

This is a pretty good card, here. I have one myself. There is a HD version, but it's pretty much double the price.

 

[Dreamor]

This is a pretty good card, here. I have one myself. There is a HD version, but it's pretty much double the price.

ah ok, cheers, i'll have a look and see how it goes.

 

[Kryten]

I'd say the xonar too, but better off with the shielded model. You'd be surprised just how much difference EMI shielding makes - it's noticeable on a plain x-fi and one with aftermarket shielding fitted!

 

[Dreamor]

I'd say the xonar too, but better off with the shielded model. You'd be surprised just how much difference EMI shielding makes - it's noticeable on a plain x-fi and one with aftermarket shielding fitted!

Ok that makes sense, I'll have a look around