Any Thoughts On This Please!

quandam · Aug 07, 2009, 09:29:38

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167514

Rik · Aug 07, 2009, 09:33:45

£206 seems expensive for a mouse, Q.

It's an OK spec, not top of the range, so I'd be inclined to put XP on it, or Unix. You may have to do some digging around for drivers, but hopefully, there would be a CD with it.

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Glenn · Aug 07, 2009, 09:35:52

Unless you have an OS for it you will need to add one to the price, also it would need a 64 bit version to use all of the ram.
Would this meet your needs

Glenn · Aug 07, 2009, 09:37:21

Quote from: Rik on Aug 07, 2009, 09:33:45
£206 seems expensive for a mouse, Q.

# Was £399.99
Save £100.03
Now £299.96inc vat

Rik · Aug 07, 2009, 09:38:32

Look at the price underneath with the mouse, Glenn.

Glenn · Aug 07, 2009, 09:41:19

I must be missing something, all I can see is a laptop + mouse for £306.85

Rik · Aug 07, 2009, 09:48:14

Oops. I read the 'save' as the price.

quandam · Aug 07, 2009, 09:52:57

Quote from: Glenn on Aug 07, 2009, 09:35:52
Unless you have an OS for it you will need to add one to the price, also it would need a 64 bit version to use all of the ram.
Would this meet your needs

Glenn,

What appealed was that there was no OS and I could put XP on it (I like XP). I do have an XP Professional X64 OS disc available, would this be OK to put on the ebuyer laptop?

Rik · Aug 07, 2009, 09:55:08

It should, Q.

quandam · Aug 07, 2009, 09:59:09

Rik

The OS disc is brand new (genuine/unused) and is around 3 years old, can you see any probs?

Rik · Aug 07, 2009, 10:04:11

Only the amount of time and bandwidth you'll use in updating it, Q.

I would, though, get eBuyer to tell you that it's suitable for use with XP64, then you have grounds for returning it if it doesn't work.

Glenn · Aug 07, 2009, 10:43:23

The OS and laptop would be fine, maybe check with ebuyer to see if there are 64 bit drivers available for the laptop though.

quandam · Aug 07, 2009, 12:13:06

Thanks for your thoughts

quandam · Aug 07, 2009, 13:08:44

Rang ebuyer (very efficient service in the UK

) as you suggested and was told the laptop should handle XP64 without problem

Unfortunately my postcode is outside their free delivery area

Baz · Aug 07, 2009, 14:26:53

ebuyer

quandam · Aug 07, 2009, 14:41:05

Baz

I presume from your post you have had a bad experience/s along the way? I have to speak as I have found over the years, I have bought many things from them without problem, luck of the draw I suppose

Rik · Aug 07, 2009, 15:29:01

Same here, Q, Baz just hit a bad spot I think.