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BONKERS price matching

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Sparkles boxFrom all the advice and a bit of playing with some Windows 8 laptops in store my plan was emerging. Fermenting ideas. The strongest ideas bubble to the top. The bubbliest plan is to buy:

  1. Windows 7 laptop – with hardware that meets with windows 8 requirements
  2. Intel i5 processor as minimum - I want fast
  3. Something pretty – not chunky but doesn’t need to be too small as long as it’s light enough not to pull my shoulder muscles
  4. Find a way to take an image of the Windows 7 drive then use the free upgrade to Windows 8 and take an image of that.  Try it out and go with my preferred image.
  5. Ask for the Google Nexus 7 tablet as a birthday or christmas pressie.

I LOVE my plan.

Gosh, I’ve gone and gotten all happy and I haven’t even spent a penny yet!

I know which of the in-store laptops were most appealing and an online search found that even the manufacturers refurbished version was £200  more than the instore model I’d seen, and that was BEFORE the £150 cash-back trade-in on my ‘old’ laptop.

All the online versions were not only more expensive, they were quoting a 3 week delivery period, what’s up with that?!  Walking out of a store with a laptop under my arm is the cheapest and quickest option!  Thomas and I roll up at PC world who are selling the Acer Aspire 3 for near £200 less than thier ‘Currys’ store.  Oddly, Currys had a price match promise – but why buy more expensive and have to claim the money back in a price match within the same company – BONKERS!

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This scribble was published on Thursday, November 1st, 2012. You can follow any banter on this scribble with the RSS 2.0 feed. You can share your inspired musings after typing the anti spam word near the bottom of the page. But no Pinging because its too naughty.

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  1. ExpatEgghead writes:
    November 1st, 2012

    Superb. I bow to your inner geek.

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  2. wendy writes:
    November 1st, 2012

    Thanks Expat, only 2 weekends research to get there, but its the sort of research I do rather enjoy so I didn’t hurry. It’s a sort of early bithday present and has indeed made me very happy – imagine the escape from a windows starter netbook….. I suspect there will be more explorations into geekiness before xmas.
    PS everyone feel free to recommend alternative small tablet form factors….

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  3. von lx writes:
    November 1st, 2012

    PC Magazine has a ton of Win8 tips in this article. Perhaps you might find something of use for your evaluation.

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  4. wendy writes:
    November 2nd, 2012

    von lx, welcome back! Thanks for searching out and pointing me to a credible PC magazine article. Very thoughtful. W x

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