PC needed for Personal use - which suppliers?

[john]

And that last sentance? I've lived in Bradford 25 years and I've yet to see evidence it's not like India

I know what you mean, what I meant was when you call them you won't get through to Bangalor or Mumbai and speak to a call centre based in India.

[jopijedd]

Having been short of time to build a boxes for applications at school, I've bought several PCs from BigPockets in recent months, both for personal and work, all of which have been well built and worked straight out of the box.

 

Their high end stuff is a bit pricey, but the lower spec stuff is a pretty good bargain.

 

Having had a Dell machine on evaluation alongside a Viglen, an HP, a BigPockets tower and a local pc shop one, i would never *ever* buy a Dell. The bloody thing started squeaking and squealing at me every time it was booted it up after i took the case off to see what was inside and was performing well below what it should have been doing for the supposed spec it was. There were also far too many specialised parts inside for my liking.

 

The only slight saving grace it had was not being as crap as the one built by a local company whom a worrying number of schools recommend.

 

There was little to choose between the HP and Viglen boxes, both being similar in price and performance.

[tech_guy]

Very good firm and excellent support, all from Bradford not India.

 

I thought Bradford was India?

[tech_guy]

I'm just waiting for the day Tesco start selling cars, motorbikes and caravans. It can't be long now.

 

Yeah, Tecso is becoming the Microsoft of the supermarket world....

[timbo343]

i bought a dell vostro machine,

2.33 Ghz core 2 duo processor,

2 Gb ram,

Vista (which im getting used to)

DVD+/-RW drive,

320 Gb HDD

Card reader

256Mb PCI-E graphics card

wireless Keyboard & mouse which brings the price down.

All for £311 that includes the £60 delivery too

and a mate was selling a brand new 20" widescreen monitor which i bought for £50.

and i added a second 500Gb HDD which i bought for £50

[timbo343]

I need to replace my ageing Evesham PC (6/7 yrs old!) and wondered if anyone to could recommend a specific PC or company. I've a max budget of £1000 and will use the PC for web browsing & downloads, gaming, storing Photos/videos etc. Also will need to use it for work occaisonally so need Micrsoft office (which version should I go for?)

 

I was tempted to buy from Evesham again but I understand they are about to be bought out. Heard Mesh PC's are good but the support is rubbish. Starting to favour Chillblast but don't know much about the company.

 

Any help would be appreciated. :?

 

You mentioned mesh... a colleague of mine bought from them.. he had a major problem with it, 5 months down the line they sorted it out, the machine was back to mesh about 6 times all in all, they denined there was a problem and refused to fix the problems after many letters of complaints.

[localzuk]

I had a mesh laptop at one point - had a great many design flaws resulting in many support calls. Support was forthcoming but was slooow.

[Hoggy]

So many options to choose from, no wonder it's taken me ages to choose - I used to be decisive but now I'm not so sure!?! - Have more or less decided to by an Eclipse for £750, good graphics card and processor, support a bit stingy but I might upgrade that.

 

Anyone got experiences of Eclipse PC's, PC Advisor seems to like them.

 

Cheers.

[leon]

I just can't be bothered with it all anymore, I used to spend a fortune having a top gaming rig, but now I hate to think I'll spend a grand for it to be old by christmas.

 

This. How important is gaming to you? I'd get a capable lappy, nothing too flash, stick the OS of your choice on it and have done. Bank the rest, it's wasted cash imho.

 

Someone mentioned the Dell outlet, that's a good place to start. Dell warranties are better than from a reseller, should that be important to you...

[OutToLunch]

Missed the boat here, but if I had £750 in my pocket to spend on a PC (not a chance!) I'd go for a Zoostorm. Also well recieved by PC Advisor, the last few PCs I've recommend for friends on different budgets have all come from them... No problems at all so far and very nicely built. It just doesn't seem worth doing DIY for mates these days when for £50-60 more they can get a properly built PC with warranty etc.

 

http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?ProductCode=3362-5406

 

# Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q6600, 2.4GHz, 1066MHz, 8MB Cache Processor

# 2GB DDR2 667 PC5300 Memory

# 400GB SATA WD Caviar SE 3.5"

# 256MB PCI-Express nVidia Inno3d GeF Graphics Cards

# P35A Intel Chipset Motherboard

# 18x DVDRAM/DVDRW Double Layer Dual Drive

# 7.1 Channel on-board High Definition Sound

# 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN

# 7 USB 2.0 Ports (3 front/4 rear)

# Black Aluminium fronted case with hinge door

# 400W Power Supply Unit

# 19" Widescreen monitor

# Philips MMS460 5.1 Speaker System

# Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 Keyboard & Mouse

# Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium

# 1 year on-site parts and labour warranty

 

*dribble*