New home laptop

[sted]

I would be wary of HP laptops, several models have known overheating issues (as my sister found out with hers and a friends daughters burntout) and HP have had a few class actions against them in america because of these issues and the failures associated with them, that being said their laptops are nice enough, but I would say consider that when buying one, google the model before you buy one and see if there are known issues.

the same goes for tosh ive had to bios flash a load of them to stop them "setting on fire" i believe the update said

[jinnantonnixx]

Was that the nvidia defect? The patch was to make the fans run at full speed. Hmmmm.

I had a (two year old) HP G6000 burn out on me but Staples replaced it with a brand new Samsung a year after the warranty expired!

[plexer]

Laptop was delivered today which was good as we only got back from hols today.

Have to say it's massive.

Ben

[broc]

I treated myself to a new 'home' laptop this week too

Samsung RF711 17.3-inch Laptop (Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.2GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M, 1TB HDD, Blu-ray, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit)

It has space for two HDD, so I slipped in a 120gb SSD too

& I have just had confirmation email that the VAT 'cashback' offer has been approved.

[sted]

I treated myself to a new 'home' laptop this week too

Samsung RF711 17.3-inch Laptop (Intel Core i7 2670QM 2.2GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M, 1TB HDD, Blu-ray, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit)

It has space for two HDD, so I slipped in a 120gb SSD too

& I have just had confirmation email that the VAT 'cashback' offer has been approved.

dual hdd bays in a laptop are handy ive done same as you with my xps17 3d 12gb m4 ssd and 750gb d drive