Was i conned by e buyer??

[andyfromotley]

Bought a new laptop 3 weeks ago as computer packed up.

E- Buyer fujitsu siemens 2 gig of ram and 120 gb hard drive. £320

when i click on computer it says i have 1.75gb of ram and 109gb of hard drive. Is his right? i know they are allowed to be a little economical with the truth so dont want to make a t5t of myself by complaining.

BTW the laptop is great, no complaints at all.

andy

 

[dantheman]

does it also say the sizes in mb- sometimes it can round down, the hd could be okay, my mates says 113gb, instead of 120.. but im no computer buff, so maybe others will be more knowledgeable...


e-buyer have always seemed pretty good though, from what ive heard..

 

[fossyant]

No you have not been conned - some will be reserved for the backup/system files and also 120gb quoted is about 109gb...do you not know about the 1024 data system...... I'll not bore you, but what you have is 100% right....

Your ram, for a laptop will be shared with the video card unless you pay loads...like £1k - so it will use a fair amount 128 - 256 mb .... you haven't been stuffed that's how it is..

 

[byegad]

Some of the RAM gets reserved for the graphics card. Your figure sounds about right, and some of the HD is reserved for the system, again it sounds about right.

 

[byegad]

Beaten to the punch.LOL

 

[fossyant]

Hope that's OK - you, like me have a basic laptop...

It's fine for what we use it for, but my older desktop with more real ram, pumping old graphics card (cost £250 on it's own) and stuff kicks the laptop's ass big time...

 

[Kestevan]

At a guess they have quoted the HD size in MB, using the "industry standard" i.e 1Gb = 1000Mb rather than 1024. The boot sector and general formatting requirements then rob a little bit extra leaving 113gb of actual space.

The RAM is probably 2gb, but they have used an on-board graphics chip which "borrows" 256mb for itself from the main RAM rather than having dedicated GPU memory.

Not exactly what it says on the tin - but pretty standard for the industry, and roughly what you would expect at that price level.

On the whole I dont think you've been ripped off, you just need to be aware of the finer points hidden in the small print of PC specs.

 

[fossyant]

PS Laptops rock - love going into the garden and surfing - the power house desktop can't do that.

My laptop was an AOL freebe, it's great, will play Lego Starwars 2 - fine - we have kids, and it does the job.....the desk top , although 3 years old, runs RAID (dual disks for data security - and we have needed it) and can play games at really good FPS..., although now a bit to old for the latest stuff, but the Lego games are cool !!!!!!!!!

Don't worry - that is a fine bit of kit.......

 

[andyfromotley]

i thank each and every one of you.
i dont think i would have bothered complaining but it would deffo have taken the shine off this laptop.

thanks
andy