Crucial Criteria for choosing equipment.

In article , Michael Chare
scribeth thus
"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Johnny B Good
scribeth thus

Well two second-hand Latitudes at £145 each have more then fulfilled the
requirement)

Where did you find those? I've been thinking that buying an HP 530 (from
Dabs) would be better value for money than any of the 2nd hand laptops that
I have found so far.



Cambridge computer resale in Cambridge, but I don't think they do mail
order. I think also we had the last of the batch.....
--
Tony Sayer

"Brian" wrote in message
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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.


Well you should not have given up. If the monitor was not more than 6
months
old, the sale of goods act - specifically the "provision of goods and
services regulations 2002" specifically state that any fault which
manifests
itself within the first 6 months is deemd to have been there when supplied
new, and it is up to the supplier to PROVE that it was not.


Its not worth it over £100+VAT. When you subtract the man-hours lost chasing
plus the lost opportunity of dealing with other important issues in the
dept, I'd be a fool to chase this up on work's time. If it were personal,
I'd chase them through small claims or whatever.

My boss agreed to bin it and just not touch Samsung again. Pity, cos I'd
been singing their praises for being cheap and cheerful before that.

You live and learn.

In article , Michael Chare wrote:
Roderick Stewart wrote:
*I'm certainly
not snobbish about revolutionary designs that actually improve things.


That will be you. The shiny shiny technophone and elderly set are a*
different breed *...


Maybe they should take heed of this:

Costly kitchen appliances 'less reliable':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../ncosts103.xml

No probs with my LG washer/dryer so far.

Oh well. Fingers crossed....

Rod.