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okenobi
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A mate of mine has just had his laptop die. It was showing artefacts for a week or two and had been increasingly hot. Now it won't boot. First off, will chucking it in the fridge for a bit give him the necessary time to recover any data? Secondly, need some recommendations for a replacement. It needs **bare minimum** 2ghz C2D, 2gig RAM, 17". The rest is up for consideration. Budget is probably around the £600 mark.
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AlunD
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One of these might help you get the data off the Disc http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130517 worked a treat for me.
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Fogmeister
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Fogmeister
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CLICKY!Or this for a bit more money.
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cloaked_wolf
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Remove the HDD from the lappy, then use a caddy to transfer stuff to another computer. You don't mention whether the HDD has gone or not. You could always buy some cans of compressed air +/- mini vacuum cleaner to clean out the internals.
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okenobi
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Yeah, I'm not sure what state the HDD is in. So I'll get him to try that. Thanks. Alun, that thing looks very interesting! I'll pass that on too. Those links look pretty cool Oli, thanks.
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dogbert10
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What does he want to use it for? The Dell is okay as long as you only want to do basic stuff - the integrated graphics will cope with the most basic of games but that's about it, but having looked around, it looks like integrated as all you're going to get at that price.
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pcernie
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http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/labs/257 ... ducts.htmlhttp://www.expertreviews.co.uk/labs/256 ... ducts.htmlI haven't gone through them all, but there's some 16'' models for what look to be good prices if you got other features as a trade-off etc Also, I haven't checked how recent these are, and the new mag only came out recently 
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pcernie
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Just read this (really quickly, so apologies if not relevant ): http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/22/acer ... e-laptops/_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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Linux_User
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That's selling for between £450 and £550 in the United Kingdom, so could be ideal. EDIT: I take it back, they've downgraded the spec. for the UK model.
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