Re: Dell or Toshiba

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:33:52 +0200, Giles Todd <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote the following to uk.misc:

> On 13 Aug 2005 17:17:02 GMT, Marcus Houlden <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Following my jaunt to Maidenhead I've decided I really need to get my own
>> laptop. For various reasons I'll get one through work's home computing lease
>> thing. Out of 4 laptops I've narrowed it down to a choice of 2: the Dell
>> Inspiron 6000 or the Toshiba Satellite M40-200. Both are the same price,
>> have the same memory, graphics, and HD, but the Dell is 10 MHz faster. Other
>> than that, is there any particular reason why I should pick one over the
>> other?
>
> Given the Dutch penchant for displaying for sale what cannot be
> obtained without several weeks notice,

Hmm. I think they may have decided to have a go at running the Home
Computing scheme. I rang up last Monday to order the Toshiba, only to find
that they'd closed the scheme while they work out what to put in their next
range. Personally I'd keep the old range up and running until the new range
was ready to go, but perhaps that's just me being strange.

mh.
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