Crucial Criteria for choosing equipment.

Recently I saw in a newsgroup topic about 'choosing' a new laptop computer,
I saw that somebody cut through the endless, "thats a good make or that's
not a good make" by what looked like to me as going to the heart of the
matter.

That is, by considering from their relevant web sites; what the
'specification' of specific computer chips of either of the two main makers,
AMD or Intel, the laptop computer had inside it. Then after that perhaps
other criterion can be looked at like customer service, etc, etc.

When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an insightful
way to give priority to one or two criterion for choosing a new set from the
massive and bewildering array of new models now on the market?

I am a novice in this area, but I have heard that there a only a very few
makers of the actual flat screens, who then go on to supply most of the
famous brands. So might that be a crucial area to consider first?

Any information around this I would be grateful for. Also I've heard that
the sound of the set is relatively uninportant, since it will be drastically
improved by feeding the sound out through and audio amplifier?

Grateful for any advice on the above and the few criteria you yourself would
consider first. Thanks

"johngood_____" wrote in message
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Recently I saw in a newsgroup topic about 'choosing' a new laptop
computer, I saw that somebody cut through the endless, "thats a good make
or that's not a good make" by what looked like to me as going to the
heart of the matter.

That is, by considering from their relevant web sites; what the
'specification' of specific computer chips of either of the two main
makers, AMD or Intel, the laptop computer had inside it. Then after that
perhaps other criterion can be looked at like customer service, etc, etc.

When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an
insightful way to give priority to one or two criterion for choosing a new
set from the massive and bewildering array of new models now on the
market?

I am a novice in this area, but I have heard that there a only a very few
makers of the actual flat screens, who then go on to supply most of the
famous brands. So might that be a crucial area to consider first?

Any information around this I would be grateful for. Also I've heard that
the sound of the set is relatively uninportant, since it will be
drastically improved by feeding the sound out through and audio
amplifier?

Grateful for any advice on the above and the few criteria you yourself
would consider first. Thanks

Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Well my Laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens it is Ok for all but one thing games.
The graphic card is not good enough so if you want games make sure you know
what you want, by the way I think most of the low end priced laptops have
this comment made.
FS CS is poor from the couple of questions I've asked them.

My PC is an HP CS is excellent last week one evening I e-mailed them with a
question within 2 hours they e-mailed back. This lead to another e-mail to
them, a reply about 10mins later, another mail back and again 10mins to
reply. So within 3 hours my problem solved.
Next morning a personal E-mail from them asking was all ok now, if not could
they help further.
I call that good old fashioned service.

On another occasion my Updater, checks daily, got a Microsoft update, the PC
did not like it. I e-mailed HP CS and within an hour they sent me a fix.

I will be buying thier product next time.

Can I add to your question, as I await what is said about monitors, if you
are requiring them.

I want a 22" w/s, most £300 or more.
Staples have a Belinea at £129.99 I would welcome comments on this, is it as
good as others in the lower price range.
I note the cheaper ones just feature the normal connectors, but more
expensive one have a DVi as alternative. Is there anything to choose
between these inputs on a monitor having both.

Regards
David

"super" wrote in message
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Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Not too sure on that.
When I bought my laptop it was £399 and all stores had that price on thier
lowest one. But the mags. seemed to only mention laptops of £600/700 +, I
think they written by people with pots of money.

Regards
David

"johngood_____" wrote in message
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When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an
insightful way to give priority to one or two criterion for choosing a new
set from the massive and bewildering array of new models now on the
market?


You could look for TVs that will show 1080i or 1080p in native format. i.e.
they have that may lines on the screen. There are one or two products on the
market that will do that now. I think that the smallest size 1080 screen
that you can get is about 37" at the moment.


--
Michael Chare

johngood_____ wrote:

Recently I saw in a newsgroup topic about 'choosing' a new laptop computer, I saw that somebody cut through the
endless, "thats a good make or that's not a good make" by what looked like to me as going to the heart of the matter.

But it wasnt in fact doing that.

That is, by considering from their relevant web sites; what the
'specification' of specific computer chips of either of the two main makers, AMD or Intel, the laptop computer had
inside it.

Thats a mindlessly superficial way of choosing a laptop.

The practical reality is that unless you plan to use your laptop rather
unusually, the specific chip used isnt the most important criterion.

Then after that perhaps other criterion can be looked at like customer service, etc, etc.

That shouldnt be a perhaps, particularly if you arent very technically competant.

When it comes to buying a new flat screen television is there an insightful way to give priority to one or two
criterion for choosing a new set from the massive and bewildering array of new models now on the market?

Nope, tho you can claim that a particular technology may be the first
way to eliminate a large chunk of what is on offer in some cases,
like deciding that it really needs to be LCD and not plasma etc.

I am a novice in this area, but I have heard that there a only a very
few makers of the actual flat screens, who then go on to supply most
of the famous brands. So might that be a crucial area to consider first?

The basic technology used, whether its LCD or plasma etc.

Any information around this I would be grateful for. Also I've heard that the sound of the set is relatively
uninportant, since it will be drastically improved by feeding the sound out through and audio amplifier?

Yes, but many dont want to bother doing that and need good sound without that.

Grateful for any advice on the above and the few criteria you yourself would consider first.

I choose to stick with CRTs myself currently, mainly for the better viewing angle and
better brightness because I use it in a very bright room. Thats not what most need tho.

"David" wrote in message
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"super" wrote in message
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Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Not too sure on that.
When I bought my laptop it was £399 and all stores had that price on thier
lowest one. But the mags. seemed to only mention laptops of £600/700 +, I
think they written by people with pots of money.


I was really talking with respect to the TV monitor screens in the post.

Up until a week ago I thought Samsung equipment was good. I was about to buy
250 of their laptops for work, but a stunningly nightmarish support call to
them recently means I won't EVER purchase anything from them again. I used
to be impressed by them too.

Their Scottish helpdesk told me to get lost over a faulty monitor, even
though it was only 6 months old and displayed a vertical line with 4
different computers (2 new Vista, 2 oldish XP). Monitor had to go in bin, as
the user couldn't work with it.

Caveat Emptor.

David wrote
super wrote

Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Not too sure on that.
When I bought my laptop it was £399 and all stores had that price on thier lowest one. But the mags. seemed to only
mention laptops of £600/700 +, I think they written by people with pots of money.

Or fools that have never been able to work out what is driving the market.

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:13:50 GMT, David wrote:

"super" wrote in message
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Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Not too sure on that.
When I bought my laptop it was £399 and all stores had that price on ttheir
lowest one. But the mags. seemed to only mention laptops of £600/700 +, I
think they written by people with pots of money.

It's not the the reviewers have lots of money, it's that the publishers
want the advertisers to think the readers have lots of money[1]. If they
review bottom end stuff, they won't get the high end audience and therefore
can't charge the high advertising rates that an ABC1 audience commands.
Also, high-cost stuff has a larger profit margin and marketing budget,
so it's easier to get flashy stuff to review.


[1] quote from advertisers profile at http://tinyurl.com/28kt6k
"Readers are high earners,
with a large proportion of IT
purchasers reading for
business reasons"



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"super" wrote in message
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Go to WHSmith and browse or buy some review mags.

Not too sure on that.
When I bought my laptop it was £399 and all stores had that price on thier
lowest one. But the mags. seemed to only mention laptops of £600/700 +, I
think they written by people with pots of money.

Regards
David


Was going to buy a new laptop the other day but they've all got that
windoze vista pox on so a for the same price a couple of second-hand
dells were had with XPee, not quite such a pox and soon to be Linux'ed

Tv's?..

Dunno about that but I'm hanging onto our old B&O CRT set till they get
some decent hi def on the go!..
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Tony Sayer