Once you've decided, if want to :
- go to a shop to buy it,
- stand around for 15 minutes trying to attract someone's attention,
- finally request it, and watch someone head off to the store room to find it, only to still be AWOL 20 minutes later,
- find another idiot to discover what happened to the first idiot,
- eventually get your box and join the checkout queue with a few customers, but only one assistant who's dealing with a complex return,
- eventually get to the desk and spend a lot of time being told that as it's a business purchase, you need to enter lots of details on their site so you can get a VAT receipt,
- realise that it's a complete scam, they just want to e-mail you for the rest of your life, so tell them to forget it, and just get a normal till receipt (which of course has a VAT number...),
... then just try PC World.
We pretty much only have PC World/Currys round here so not a lot of choice but, i'm not at all keen on them.
Rght then, i have taken a very different tack to address the request from the Mrs. for a laptop.
I have mentioned above that i have a Lenovo Ideapad of a good spec. which i have had for a few years; Due to me retiring my last
(v. old) Dell desktop it has, for the last couple of years spent all it's time sat at the back of my desk next to it's monitor with all the
peripherals plugged into it acting as a desktop PC. Having looked at what's available on the Dell Outlet site i was impressed at the
re-furbished desktop systems to be had for comparatively little money, especially with the 15% discount which, got me thinking.
I get a half decent desktop system for my office which would then release the laptop back into general use by the wife which would
be a lot less money than a decent spec laptop. So that's what i have done. I have ordered an Inspiron 3670 of decent spec. and that's
come in at the very acceptable price of £260 delivered. The same kit at Currys is £449 and at John Lewis £380 so quite a bargain
Anyhow the deed is done and it's on it's way to me now
Need to buy the Mrs. summat else now but, i have got her a really posh bottle of Gin for starters
Thank's for all the comments