Why not a Fujitsu Siemens?

[Lord Midas]

Nice PC
These have Q6600 quad core and 2GB RAM, 8600GS, 500GB HDD and a 22" monitor for £680.
Sounds good to me

[Betty_Swallocks]

Hmm. I probably wouldn't. I had a contract with Fujitsu last year and asked one of the managers if they could get me a discount on a Fujitsu laptop only to be told not to bother "because Fujitsu laptops are rubbish. We all use HP"

[da.Guvna]

I dunno, Fujitsu PCs might be alright....they tend not to be locked down as much as laptops are.

My Fujitsu Amilo Xi1546 died last month after only a year of operation. Doesn't even turn on any more....the LEDs flicker for a nano second and that's it.
Took it to some laptop specialists, and they said that the graphics card had died. If I install it myself, I can get a replacement for £170, but it's only an ATi X1800!
I could get a decent 8800GT for that price these days.

Anyway, ignoring the hardware malfunction, I wouldn't recommend another Fujitsu laptop to anyone else, as their driver support (updates, etc) is pretty much non-existant, and the overall build quality is flimsy.

Hopefully the same isn't true for their PCs, but I thought I should warn you just in case

[Lord Midas]

Hmm, fair comments. I have heard exactly the same about HP and Dell too. I guess all these large manufacturers and in a similar bind when mass producing these things.

[da.Guvna]

Yeah exactly.

I would have thought that as long as the machine doesn't have any weird/unusual components in it, then you'll easily be able to get driver updates from the hardware manufacturers, and if anything breaks it's much easier to buy the parts for a PC.

[dynamoboy]

My Amilo died after 1 1/2 years. Totally ****. Turns on, but nothing displays on the screen.

I'd advise against ANYTHING Fuj.-Sie. My second experience with a Fuj (my first being a desktop) and both died in an unacceptable time frame.

[lordmozilla]

i've got quite a good experience with a fudjitsu siemens laptop, albeit it was a P3 800mhz but it was the only laptop that survived as long as it did from the pool of dell and sony's i've seen.