29-11-2012, 01:38 PM
(29-11-2012, 11:39 AM)Radio Fixer Wrote: Mark
If buying an HP this one seems mucha better deal to me... Its i5 for starters, pretty good specc all round 8GB ram, USB 3, dedicated AMD graphics card etc
http://www.ebuyer.com/395610-hp-pavilion...7j11ea-abu
Gary
Hi Gary,
As a rule, I avoid the Pavilion range as they are a bit more consumer-orientated - I prefer their business products. The Pavilions come with "home" versions of the OS rather than "pro" and also tend to have a lot more crapware installed.
But in this case, that is definitely a lot more hardware for the price.
I haven't had a chance to look properly, but the machine I recommended did seem a little expensive from eBuyer, and it might be available for much less elsewhere. The one on my desk was about £300, and it was a pretty good spec for the time - but that was from a different supplier, and there might have been B2B discount...
All said, I reckon a Pavilion ought to be a much better bet than Acer or Dell.
Mark
