I live in the UK but my daughter is studying until Christmas in New York.
She has a problem with her Sony Vaio laptop which we may replace with
another laptop either from the USA or the UK.

I will be going to New York in 10 days time so can either take out a new
laptop or buy another in New York/ USA.

If I buy in the USA will have a problem as the laptop will be back in the
UK for good at Christmas.

What should I buy I need a good but cheap laptop with DVD Writer and WIFI.

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Good but cheap? Isn't that like looking for caviar at a Walmart
Superstore?

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carol wrote:
"Good" and "Cheap" don't go together for any laptop. :-)

However,

Best suggestion is to pick a laptop that can be fixed either in the US
or UK should it break.

Dell and Apple both have UK support options.

If you're going to New York and physically buying a laptop from a store,
Apple would be the best choice. The iBook G4 would be the least
expensive model that would do what you want it to do. It has the
SuperDrive (for DVD writing) and WiFi.

PC/Windows based laptops are mostly in USA department stores like
Circuit City, Best Buy and so on. Were you to buy a laptop from one of
those chains and then seek support for it from the UK, it would be a
challenge to say the least. At least with the Apple you would have
support options whereever you are.

http://www.apple.com/ibook

The prices listed are as "cheap" as you're going to get.

-Rich

Chadwick Stone© wrote:
More like looking for a diamond ring in a McDonald's Happy Meal.

-Rich

"carol" <tom@carolsinger.com> wrote in message
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Remember US keyboards have a different layout. If you buy one out there and
bring it back to the UK, it will have a lower resale/trade value over here.
When I was out there last year, the price difference wasn't enough to
warrant buying one to bring back to UK.

There is also the warranty problem of buying one over there.

Rich wrote:
data
the guy sent his daughter to school in NYC; he is flying over to
visit her and
therefore
the guy is not poor

logic
Good is a relative term, may mean one thing to Santa Claus and
something else to daughter

Cheap is a relative term, certainly means one thing to Bush and
something else to Blair
and
nothing to daughter
and
it seem apparent
something else to daddy

sounds like a recycled dell at about 1.5k would be both good and
cheep
lol

"Tony" <ttiger@lineone.net> wrote in message
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:
"Remember US keyboards have a different layout."

Although you can remap it with windows anyway if you touch type and
know a uk keyboard without looking at it..The differences are minor.
The £ is typically missing and replaced with $ and the @ is above 3
instead of above ' which is very frustrating when sending email.....

On 2006-02-24, Sucuba Dude <ceo@openreach.com> wrote:
You can also change the keyboard physically.

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carol wrote:
"good but cheap" is not avaiable.
"fair but cheap" is.



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