Stewart Robertson wrote: > "a grand six years ago is probably about £450 now." > > With laptops, if you pay a premium price do you think you get a better > product?
not convinced. A lot of the extra price seems to go on executive jewellery finishes, blu-ray drives, quad core processors that are no faster than dual core, the latest Intel processor which is 70% more than a perfectly adequate slightly older one etc etc. (or a picture of a piece of fruit on it). Extra price should buy you longer battery life, lighter weight, smaller size at the same computing spec, but this isn't always the case. I had a £750 Sony to fix and it was as slow as something half the price as well as being large beyond reason (17" screen FFS although wide sceen so not really very usefully large). On the John Lewis website for example there's a Sony for £200 more than an Acer (£650 plays £450) - same amount of RAM, same HDD size (no mention of speed which is one of the slowest things in a modern PC), same screen res, same weight, both 2.2 GHz intel dual core but Sony has T6600 vs Acer T4400 CPU (whatever that means), Acer is 64bit W7, Sony has dedicated 512M graphics RAM. Acer 3h battery life, Sony undeclared. Worth £200 more ? not seeing it myself. They'll both fly into bits if you drop them ! Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
