Good deal or not?

[Admiral Huddy]

Never been a great fan of the purple shirts but this seems like a decent deal:

• Advent 17" Laptop
• Large 17" Widescreen display with 3GB memory & 250GB HDD
• Unlimited** data and
  200 texts with T-Mobile
• Model: 6552 Sku: 175236
• Usual instore price: £399.99
• *24 month contract applies

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/edi..._laptops#close


So this is £840 over the two years.. it doesn't say anything about mobile or if it's an all-in-one package. I pay £20pm or my mobile package now so if it does, seems like a no brainer.

[Mark]

1) It's a data-only package (no voice).
2) It's Advent. If it's actually a rebadge of something decent, then fair enough. If not, best avoided.

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by Mark

2) It's Advent. If it's actually a rebadge of something decent, then still avoid.

PC World and 'The Techguys' suck you do not want to be doing business with them believe me.

I sent my Advent 4211 off to them a month ago and it still hasn't been returned! A machine that I had for 4 months has not been with them for almost a quarter of its lifespan, I had one call a week after it was sent telling me they had ordered a new keyboard and motherboard (I'm pretty sure that its not either of those things) and I've phoned them 3 times since to get updates, they've never phoned me. When I called today apparently the parts have arrived but now they need to work on it and test it and they can't give me an estimated arrival date, when I bought the thing I thought it was too good to be true and I was right. Buy a Dell if you want a preassembled machine, at least they retail their own products and don't subcontract to 'Techguys' who couldn't find their arses with a map!

MB

[Oly-593]

A year or so ago I actually worked at a place that repaired laptops for PC World, so I know first hand how crap the 'techguys' service is.

I stuck it for three months to get me through Xmas, but left soon after.
The management were complete ***** and the way things were run was diabolical.
Unsurprisingly there was a huge turnover of staff, but they didn't give a toss.

So yeah, don't go with PC World/techguys cause they're utter crap.

[Feek]

LMF's Dell laptop failed on Monday, it was collected on Tuesday and returned today, fully repaired. I was impressed.

Huddy, I wouldn't go near that deal with a bargepole.

[Belmit]

I would.

Belmit smash!

[Glaucus]

buy a laptop for 300 then get a 3 usb stick. On pay as you go. Unless you know you are going to use massive amounts.

[Jingo]

I don't personally know about the Purple headed monsters and their technical rent boys but I can further recommend Dell for pre-builds

I had a 24 month warranty with my Dell - when I returned from holiday to find it not working cough-droppedanarchitecturalencyclopediaoffmytopshelfont oit-cough they collected it from me the next morning and returned it 3 days later in fully working order and a complimentary 3month extension to my warranty

I was impressed.

[Mark]

I've had next-day parts service on two of my Dell systems. One CPU fan on my old Dell Workstation got noisy and died, so Dell sent me a replacement (customer replaceable part so no bother), then the other died and they did the same. Then a few keys on the keyboard of my old Dell laptop (cough-droppeditatJFK-cough) got a bit intermittant and I got a new keyboard out of that too.

[LeperousDust]

Agreed avoid trouble and get a dell build.