What is your budget LS and what do you want for it - eg printer/monitor as well etc?

Personally I would stay away from places like PC world, comet, dixons etc, their pcs are normally full of cheap componants - apart from the obvious like the cpu/chip.

Well I guess it kind of depends on what's available and the prices but I'm hoping up to around £700, if that's feasible? Less would be good! Prices have come down since we got our last one.

Wouldn't need a printer but probably should have a monitor as the current one is giving off a lot of static charges.

Thanks Stormey, will take a look at that too.

Last august Storm had just died and Skye was about to arrive so I thought I would treat myself to a new pc, no time to build with having a new pup about. I went to mesh and spent just over £1000 on a new pc, the value was the main reason.

I ordered the pc on a Wednesday and was told it would arrive(£30 delivery) the next Wednesday, that came and went despite waiting in all day. I phone and was told it had been sent and would be hear for 8pm, that time past still no pc. Thursday came and still no pc by 12noon so I rang again they said it will definitely here today. Thursday came and went still no pc. I phoned first thing Friday to be told that they had tried to deliver the pc but there were either no answer, waiting in solid so that was not true or the most likely reason they could not find my house, this I could understand if I lived the sticks but I live in a main city just off one of the main roads, add to the fact a friend who lives five doors down got his delivered the same day made me laugh. I asked when would I get it then and was told they don't deliver weekends and it was a bank holiday so they would resend it out on the Tuesday and I should get it by Thursday, over A week after the first date I paid £30 for. In the end I went to the local depot myself and picked it up, I asked for the delivery fee to be refunded only for them to say no as it was my choice to pick it up and not wait.


About a day after getting the pc I noticed a clicking for the HDD, I knew this was not healthy and would phone them, but after about a day it stopped so I thought nothing of it until it started happening again, then I rang straight away, no answer, I tried over 2weeks up to an hour a time and got no answer, I also sent emails that they say will be answered in 3-5 days, over a year now and still waiting :LOL: . Finally I got through and they said they would have an engineer out in 2 days, this time they did. He looked at the HDD and said it needed replacing, he tried there and then but the new HDD did not work, nor did the 2nd one he tried, he put the old one back so I had a pc to use until they could arrange to pick it up, but that did not work either.

They gave me a day they would pick it up and could I have the pc boxed up, now I don't know about other people but I don't keep boxes for months after buying something, I told them this and they said use a box from a supermarket or something, now after the trouble with them I was not risking the pc being damaged and them saying Its my fault the pc is damaged and them not repairing it so I asked if they could send a box, yes they said, £25 please. This was the last straw and I asked for a full refund as the pc was not fit for purpose, I was told they cant as I did not report the fault asap, this was despite me trying to. I went to trading standards and then just after I was offered a full replacement and a box for the old one, fine I said and dates were gave and kept, my old pc left and my new pc came, but with me being a suspicious time I had put a small sticker underneath the case and sure enough the new pc and the same sticker, I was back on the phone for hours to get hold of them to find out why my replacement system Is my old one, I was told they use the same case due to some law relating to windows xp but all the parts are new, I was happy with this but still had a check, the parts inside were either the same parts or they use old looking dusty parts, phoned again and was told this time that the ones who was to build the new system and been given the wrong notes and replaced the HDD, but if I still wanted the new system I could send it back and would get a new one this time, case included. The pc was working fine now so I did no want to let them near the pc again so left it at that. So in January 2007 I had a pc at last, a pc ordered in august 2006. It had the fan fall off the CPU since but that was sorted easily and the keyboard and mouse have failed, not a problem as I use my old ones that I like better..

There is hundreds of others like me who have had trouble with mesh and have even been on watchdog since, they seem to be working on that side but people still have problems.