and if the hard drive fails out of warranty???

One question, I was surprised by part of your response; if they will send you a free copy of the OS, why do they charge extra for the Recovery Disk??

answered your own question there. If the hdd fails then get a cd off them off dell or me.

Simples

That is the one in my link, I did see the red one, but it is not refurbished, it was in the section scratch and dent! Is this one wifi?

they have 2, one refurbished and one scratch.

All laptops have wifi now ;-)

answered your own question there. If the hdd fails then get a cd off them off dell or me.

Simples

So you are saying they are the type of company that will try to make you pay up front for something they will give you for free if you ask later on???

Bear in mind my question was about getting the disk from DELL, not you or another 3rd party. I am not sure what their current going rate is, but I believe they used to charge between £12 and £20 for a recovery disk if ordered with the PC.

A lot of manufacturers ask you to do a full back up of your system negating the need for the recovery disk.

A pain when all you wanna do is fix a dodgy boot sector.

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So you are saying they are the type of company that will try to make you pay up front for something they will give you for free if you ask later on???

Bear in mind my question was about getting the disk from DELL, not you or another 3rd party. I am not sure what their current going rate is, but I believe they used to charge between £12 and £20 for a recovery disk if ordered with the PC.

Most companies do the same. Its called customer service.

It isn't a recovery disc, it is a oem Os disc. If you loose the recovery partition which you own the license for they will send you a cd. They will try and charge, but you will get it for free if you argue the point.

Exactly the same experience with hp and lenovo, as we manage to get Os discs all the time at work when a hard drive fails even though we have custom images!

No point going on about it as its getting tedious now, we all know you don't like dell and a awful computer fair is better so not sure why you are still going on about it.

Now, now......

@jrw - how does this look? Inspiron 15R N5110

Now, now......

@jrw - how does this look? Inspiron 15R N5110

links don't work, copy and paste the info and we'll see what its like.

That's strange, they work for me.....

Anyway this is the spec - £335 inc vat and delivery.

Inspiron 15R - N5110

System Color Black

Processor Processor: Intel Core i3-2310M (3M Cache, 2.10 GHz)

Hard Disk Drive Hard Drive : 500GB Serial ATA (5400RPM)

Memory 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (1 DIMMs)

Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)

NoteBook Screen Display: 15.6in High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLife

Laptop Battery 6 Cell Primary Battery, 48W

Media Bay 8X DVD+/- RW Drive

Video Intel HD Graphics 3000 with up to 1.6GB Dynamic Video Memory

I now have 14 minutes to decide before it's removed from my cart and some other scally gets the bargain.....

It seems to be that most laptops now don't come with disks. You have to burn your own recovery disks when you get the machine. So make sure you've a few blank DVDs to hand. Takes a while and is much more of a pain than the good old days when you got your Windows OEM disk and a pile of driver disks too.

Last one looks fine for the money.

It seems to be that most laptops now don't come with disks. You have to burn your own recovery disks when you get the machine. So make sure you've a few blank DVDs to hand. Takes a while and is much more of a pain than the good old days when you got your Windows OEM disk and a pile of driver disks too.

Last one looks fine for the money.

Cheers for that, jrw went offline just at the wrong time......I was going to ask the difference between 2 DIMM and 1 DIMM, but Google was my friend, the one above only has 1 DIMM (4gb), but from what I can gather that means it will have an empty slot?

Ordered it anyway.

Yeah sorry, on phone so relying on email updates and I've no data signal on this site in certain parts.

Spec looks cracking and you will indeed have one free slot so you could put another 4gb in if you wanted. I have 8gb on my laptop but then I am running up to 3 virtual machines!

So the computer is ordered now I just need a 'copy' of MS Office 2010, if you know what I mean......

So the computer is ordered now I just need a 'copy' of MS Office 2010, if you know what I mean......

Have you children in education? You can get MS Office 2010 (2 licences) for about £38.

I would just go to the "Try Office" website where you can download Office 2010 and use it for 60 days or so without buying a license. Then just buy the license, and gives you 2 months to save up for it

Have you children in education? You can get MS Office 2010 (2 licences) for about £38.

I presume this is the site where that offer is available. MS Professional Plus for 38 quid, bargain.

I notice I can get WIndows 7 64 bit upgrade for the same money, is this something I could do to my old desktop, or does the current hardwear preclude it?

I presume this is the site where that offer is available. MS Professional Plus for 38 quid, bargain.

I notice I can get WIndows 7 64 bit upgrade for the same money, is this something I could do to my old desktop, or does the current hardwear preclude it?

That's the one.

I think there's a programme that you can run to see if your PC is capable of running windows 7, google for "Windows 7 upgrade advisor".

That's the one.

I think there's a programme that you can run to see if your PC is capable of running windows 7, google for "Windows 7 upgrade advisor".

Cheers buddy, as soon as the laptop arrives I will download MS Office, if I can upgrade my old desktop I will install the other copy on that.

I will Google that upgrade advisor, it definitely won't accept the 64 bit, but it may the 32.

I give up, downloaded the Upgrade advisor started running the program and it stop saying it couldn't find an internet connection which is carp, as I was online while it was running! I have restarted the computer and tried again and still no joy!

Below is a screen shot of my system details (no laughing, I understand Fred Flintstone has a better spec) can anyone confirm from this if I could upgrade to Windows 7?

Should be fine.

May struggle with some drivers though.

Should be fine.

May struggle with some drivers though.

?????

All I plan on keeping on the desktop is MS Office, Photoshop, itunes and a few other random programs. IT will have the all in one printer attached and it will still have internet. Oh and I will use it a s a back up for all my photo's and documents.

I pressume I am better looking at the 32 bit version?

you need to run the compat wizard to check that there are win 7 drivers for things like graphics and network. I know my old Dell Dimension (can't remember model but older than yours) wouldn't work with 7 as i was missing graphics....

32 or 64 makes no odds really - 32 fine for you as you only have 3GB RAM.

Unless you actually need Office for the .... errr office, why not give Libré Office a try ?? Its free and handles most, if not all of the Office formats.

Unless you actually need Office for the .... errr office, why not give Libré Office a try ?? Its free and handles most, if not all of the Office formats.

Do you ever pay for anything :p

I used Office up until the 2003 version, then got sick of having to pay every few years to access the new flavour of the month file format they had invented.

The big problem with software is they keep playing with it to generate a continuing income stream, either from the end user or from business licenses and that usually means it gets bloated beyond recognition.

That is why I usually end up ditching a program and switching to a smaller free one.

FireFox instead of IE

Open/Libre Office instead of MS Office

Foxit instead of Adobe PDF

Media Player Classic instead of WMP, RM and QT.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3