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Small, quiet, £500ish, "high street" PC for my Mum
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snowyweston
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The title says it all really...
Doesn't need any bells or whistles, Office would be a big bonus, already have a monitor but will consider a bundle (but would prefer a printer) - and yes, its got to be from the high street as I'll be going out with her on the 20th to buy it and setup it up for her birthday...
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| Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:19 pm |
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AlunD
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Yeah but which high street  You've got something called Tottenham court road 
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| Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:19 am |
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snowyweston
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Any, I've TCR, but my Mum (in MK) doesn't. I'm talking Dixons, PC World, Tescos, Aldi, etc...
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| Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:43 pm |
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saspro
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Couldn't you order one from yoyotech or scan and get it delivered to her?
Or buy her a laptop instead.
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| Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:10 pm |
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okenobi
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Yeah, I hate to not be helpful, but I'm not sure any of us will be in a position to recommend anything from the highstreet. I would look at dell.co.uk/outlet for cheap PCs for people that don't care. Dell are usually pretty quiet too, as they only have one fan for everything.
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| Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:35 am |
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snowyweston
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Wooooah! I'm not buying it!     I've looked at some of the sub £400 machines on Scan, and perused Dell & Mesh, but despite my assurances she doesn't have much faith in online shopping - she likes a good haggle, and likes to be able to take things back the second they break - and I can understand that. She's not fussed on a laptop either - although I think she'd enjoy sitting in her conservatory browsing away... Still, appreciated you lot aren't going to be keeping tabs on the chain shop's offers, so I guess I should rephrase the enquiry. What should I expect to get for £4-500 these days? What's CPU range will I be looking at? Amount of memory? Integrated graphics seem an obvious route, but does Windows 7 need a bit more grunt for all its prettification? etc
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| Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:29 pm |
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saspro
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rykard
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this is at Aldi on Sunday http://aldi.medion.com/md8351/uk/?refPage=aldiI have enquired about it on another thread..
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| Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:39 pm |
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okenobi
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I find it difficult to get over my issues with HP and PC World, but yeah, reasonably good value.
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| Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:44 pm |
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rykard
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was informed I should wait for the sandy beach bug to be fixed on the other thread...
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Rich
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| Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:55 pm |
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adidan
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Aye, I don't think anyone should be going the Sandy route until the recall issue has been sorted.
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