HP 530 Notebook PC £256.99 delivered (and 5% Quidco refund) @ HP store
The fire's out on this one Why not check out a related deal?- Asus AMD Radeon HD 6450 Silent GPU (1GB, PCI-E, Low Profile, DDR3, 3 Years Warranty) @AMAZON
- Kingston 120GB V+200 SSD - 2.5" SATA-III £69.99 @ Ebuyer
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Classroom in a Book - Kindle Ebook £0.01
- Official Xbox 360 wireless controller (newest black one) £22.91 @ Tesco instore
- 32GB USB flash drive - £11.99 on ebay (inc. free delivery) ITstor
Operating system installed Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
Processor type Intel Celeron M 440 processor
Memory 512 MB DDR II SDRAM
Internal hard disk drive 80 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm
Optical drive type DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM
Display size 15.4" TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
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All Comments (20)
Agree - but with the proviso that for many people this basic functionality is sufficient. I have never seen it quantified, but in my experience the accumulation of rubbish that infests PCs over time means that a new low spec PC will often outperform a more elderly higher spec rival and also by its nature resist the worst excesses of clutter that cause this slowdown.
Proviso, Quantified, Accumulation. lol. Awesome!!!! Have some rep just for the sheer fun of reading your post. Are you Steven Hawkins?:thumbsup:
Anything for that price looks OK but I agree you wouldn't want to run Visa on this spec. I'd be inclined to dump Vista, install XP and look around for a bit of cheap ram.
Anything for that price looks OK but I agree you wouldn't want to run Visa on this spec. I'd be inclined to dump Vista, install XP and look around for a bit of cheap ram.
No need to apologise Dave-T. I do actually parade around this site under different pseudonyms, oops there's a big word, and have been around for a few years now. This post however tickled me by the way it read. Once again thanks for the apology, but really there's no need.
Anything for that price looks OK but I agree you wouldn't want to run Visa on this spec. I'd be inclined to dump Vista, install XP and look around for a bit of cheap ram.
Maybe not run Visa but pay for it with one....sorry couldn't resist the typo:)
Cheers bud:thumbsup:
http://a972.g.akamai.net/7/972/8034/46302411946099/h41306.www4.hp.com/img/hp/catalog/HP_530_notebook_details.pdf
With 2Gb of ram should be OK for email and browsing but you must think that by the time you have done this one of the Dell deals for 2Gb and C2D would be better.
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=19436&category_id=498
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=19792&category_id=498
Not really sure of the difference between the two.
But having said that they say this has the same chipset but Intel say it only supports Celeron.
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=19437&category_id=498
A really nice looking lappy, well built too.
I bought one from Play when they had the 10% off thing in November for £269 and popped in 1GB on top of the 512mb in there for £14 from ebuyer and it was a flying machine!
Plenty fast enough with Vista for most tasks and I even had it playing 720p HD without a problem - sold it on eBay the other week for more than it is here as it was an impusle buy - I didn't really need a laptop!
Is this a mistake because that makes it a bargain.
All I can find is manuals and specifications