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looking for a cheap er very cheap wireless note book/lap top:

any ideas or if anyone's got one for sale: dont need vista on it but would rather XP :

also need it to use the net whilst out and about working.....

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be careful tho magpie - laptops are extremely easy to bond with specially as u can take it anywhere - even the loo :eek: :D

I wuvv mine lots it become worrying LOL:D

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well just spent shed loads on a new pc : but I need to show people my web site and so on.... but only just starting out so funds are tight:

the loo sounds good at least I would get some peace in there:

I was looking at a few in the cash converters down town.... 3 months ticket on them, however you would not know where they have some from and what could be on them:
anyone used them ?

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Does anyone actually find that place cheap, I always think the stuff looks expensive for 2nd hand goods.

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the price for a lap top was £200 : Lancs Dave no I don't think they are that cheap, having said that sometime they have a few bargains in: not bad on the price of tools and they have some DVD's:

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The stuff in there is Very expensive in there for the price of there laptop's £350+ second hand you can buy a a new one in woolies .
I got this one its a Medion i have had no problems with it not the fastest of laptops but it does what i want and its wireless .
in cash converters
There was a computer in there selling with monitor for £400 ok it had a 15ins flat monitor with it but i had seen the desktop on its own for £90

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They are very expensive in cash converters, plus he specs on them are very basic so cant be sure of what u are getting, the laptops i saw in there was quite expensive as mick says u can get a new one with guarentee for a bit xtra on the price.

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Magpie, why do you need teh net to show them your website? You should have a copy of it on your PC locally. just use that to show them.

The other point is that just cause the laptop is wireless you still need some form of internet access point within ~100m.

I'll keep my ears open for anyone at work selling one for you.

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You take your laptop to the loo. You dirty *****.
I suppose you wuvv it because you bought one of those USB rabbits ;) :D

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I think you need to look into how you will connect to the net when you are out and about working.
Is there a wireless hotspot where you will be working?
Are you going to connect through your mobile phone? (you might need your own personal oil well to pay the phone bill if you do depending on your phone contract)

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I think they want to show it to the market traders whilst down there hence my comment about just running the site locally on the laptop

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ah yes:

well I need to show market traders and so on their ads on my site:

( don't need the net for that)

plus I work away from home so it would be handy:


should have said what I wanted it for: one of those day's weeks then again month:

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thanks for your help :) :)

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Desktop on its own for £90 quid , where can i find that amazing deal? Im in the same boat as magpie because i need a wireless laptop but very cheap and i cant seem to find one. Someone told me the other day about there being some cheap computers at the old time building but im not sure they do. Can anyone help?

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don't go to Time, they are teh rubbish left over.

2nd hand laptops are rare and hold their value as Students will buy pretty much anything that goes.

your best bet is to try and get the £350ish together for a new one with warranty.

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Time: hm did they take over from TINY I got ripped off with a pc from TINY
or rather Tough It's Now Yours:

I am looking around the £350 mark: I could use and off line browser to show the sites and so on....

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Yeh well someone told me that they where selling computers cheap at the time building but i didnt like tiny really. Ive got a very good computer now which the family bought for over a grand its an all in one computer so the monitor is the computer. Anyway i want a laptop to take around the house and things but dont want to spend so much. Like i saw the advent laptops in pc world for £300 at christmas but i was thinking if you could get one of them second hand then it would be even cheaper.

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you would have thought if you did not want vista they would be selling off old ( ish) ones cheap: but I am not finding that: I was thinking about DELL but gave up with all the small print: I need a new brain now having tried to read it al:

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So if anyone knows any sites or any pc points around lancashire to get cheap laptops or maybe cheap desktop pcs please tell me :D?

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I will let you know how I get on ....

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The one from woolies is ok nothing fancy and not the fastest laptop but its wireless its the "medion" i have one and not had a problem with it at all.
mine was £399 and i got a free laptop case with it .

There is also the place Shillelagh has posted the link too i have been round the place seams ok .
also pc world do Reconditioned laptops

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Yes Willow the monitor well the screen is attached to the slim tower which is at the back of the screen. Got it from pc world. Was very expensive, wished we shouldnt of bought it for what it was but does everything got a remote to watch tv its not bad.

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7...computexj1.jpg

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Kepp your eye on the buy/sell section. I'll be putting one on there soon :)

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There are a selection of 2nd hand laptops at the shop I use in Nelson within the price you want to pay.

http://madoka.3bsystems.co.uk/browse.php?catref=119

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Thankyou lancs dave for the link and i will keep my eye on the buy and sell section. Also people a friend of a friend said you can buy cheap and alright computers off accrington market. I dont know what day though.

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thanks that looks ok, will try to pop over this weekend:

:)

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There is nothing much on a thursday and what there is is very old and rubbish dont bother .

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I could say have a look on the Accrington Market Web Site:
but I won't say that:) :) :) :) ;) ;) ;)

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With all due respect I would avoid buying anything like this off a market stall holder who isn't permanent. Unless of course you want to take a chance !!

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Yes very true lancs dave . Could you give more details on computer your selling. Yes i was looking round accrington market and some guys where selling a really smart computer with a nice monitor for very cheap! Looked to good to be true! :D

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It could have been a nice case but with a 486 motherboard inside:D

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I'll get them online this afternoon. I've actually got three base units to sell which I have picked up for people who asked me to find them a PC but then patience gets the better of them or they spend the money before I get them :mad:

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Ok ill look forward to seeing them. Any pictures before you put them up?

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Looks like a decent place.

:)

I got my first pc from them, it's very dated now, but still working. First class service.

:D

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Not the cheapest and not the dearest but I'm a firm beleiver that if you want to spend a few hundreds pounds on something like a PC then get it from somewhere you can take it back and they will sort it out if something is wrong. More importantly they actually know what they are talking about, which probably eliminates all the high st nationals lol

Known the lads for a few years since they started out selling C64 & Spectrum games so been around the block a few times :D

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Very true. Our boss got the office pc from PC World just before we opened. It's rubbish.

:)

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Yes very true willow. I was just thinking as i watched corrie there`s a place on blackburn road near the pub and bike shop theres a computer shop. Anyone know if its any good?

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Ok thankyou willow i might nip down and have a look. But its stanley today so thats my saturday taken up :D

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He wasn't that good Willow, I went in once asking for a crossover cable. should have been ~£2-3 tops, £10 he says, Sod off says , I'll give you a fiver tops, no says he, walks says I


TBH I've yet to find a computer shop in Accy that knows what they are on about

Theres a newish one opened on Abbey street(opposite Peels furniture)and there is one on the opposite side of Bburn road(Seems to be half asian travel agent half PC shop)

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have lap top will travel

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got the lap top in the end I went to curry's got a good deal on a wireless packard bell ( I know where I am with packard)
just manged to set it up ( so far so good with the bt hub) in fact this is my first post with it and also with the lap top....

now I just need a mouse, I can not use the flipping pad thing that comes with it: I will be moving my hand around in my sleep....

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LOL i got quite accustomed to my mouse pad & haven't yet reached for my usb mouse yet as im quite niffy with it & likes a gentle touch :D

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Your brain has to be wired slightly 'different' to like using touchpads

<fx:ians looks down at his hand dancing across the touchpad> DOH!!

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I must be weird then ....urmph ..errr brain wired differently - hey i always knew that hehehe....before i got a touchpad pmsl:D

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I think you must mean Cash Generator since cash convrter has only been open 3 months lol....

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