Into the World of Barbones Laptops

[nvening]

Well after alot of research and trying to find the barbones books I have finally ordered:

COMPAL HEL80	                                      £393.57 	     eclipse
Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16GHz	                 £267.51 	komplett
Seagate Momentus 7200.1 100GB SATA 150	 £104.44 	dabs
2GB Corsair KIT (2x1GB) DDR2-667MHz	      £158.61 	     scan
Pioneer DVR-K06 Black DVD-RW	                £40.54 	        komplett

With any luck the parts should be with me by next week so I guess ill take it from there and report back here.

[Funkstar]

cool

i'm interested to hear how it goes. Any chance of some photos too?

[nvening]

Yep, sure, heres a sneak preview:

http://www.marasst.com/product-1-HEL80.htm

[nvening]

Well i got all the parts now, part from the barebones laptop which i am still waiting for from eclipse...

Wow, that ram is really small lol

[nvening]

Ok, well Eclipse suck and afte rmany weeks of waiting i had to give up getting the compal.

However i got onto the phone with Zepto and managed to arange a barebones version of one of thier laptops. It is now sitting ina box infront of me, im just waiting for the camera to come home so i can take some puctures of the build and post them up here.

The model in question however is: http://zepto.com/(2oqvoayt1xrl1155jc...xCYxhiJyUzOKma

Oh and it looks alot better in the flesh/ plastic

Neil

[Funkstar]

looks less bulky than the one you last posted.

[dave87]

Yea, was going to say that...if you don't mind me asking, what did it all come to, as that spec is going to embarrass my Dell laptop

[nvening]

Unfortunately £200 more than previously thought as the Zeptop cost more!

But that gives be a hi res screen, 12 cell battery, bluetooth, 512mb dedicated 7600 and it loosk nicer too!

So: £ 1 176.1

Or a grand ex vat which was actually my buget so its all good.