Carphone offers free Toshiba laptops

With broadband contracts

19 June 2008 14:27 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

The Carphone Warehouse is offering more "free" laptops this time with a range from Toshiba free with broadband contracts worth £19.99 a month.

The first model offered is the Toshiba L300-149, available from free on a contract from £19.99 a month on all network providers, or for £440 if you wanted to buy the laptop only.

It offers a 120GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM and a Pentium 1.73GHz processor, and a 15.4-inch screen.

The Toshiba P300-148 is available from free on a contract from £19.99 a month on all network providers, or £579 for the laptop only.

It's a multimedia offering with a 17-inch widescreen, Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Harmon Kardon sound. There's also an integrated webcam, 160GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM.

The Toshiba U400-13R is also available from free on a contract from £19.99 a month on all network providers, or £679 to buy it on a laptop only basis.

This is the ultra-portable model with a 13-3-inch screen, ideal for use on the go with a 200GB hard drive, Intel Core 2 Duo and 3GB of RAM, integrated webcam, camera and microphone.

All of the laptops are available on all broadband network providers: Talk Talk, AOL Broadband, 3, T Mobile and Orange.

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I to have been after information on the toshiba P300-148.
i wanted to know what graphics card this model was being shipped with.

this laptop not listed on Toshiba website nor can they give you any tech support on there phone line (which is worrying if it ever goes wrong).

contacted carphone warehouse and they were unable to give me any details either.

i went to 2 carphone warehouse shops and asked to see the P300-148 neither shop had one on display. one shop had the p300-160 and the other the P300-161.

finally got the product code off one of the boxes in stock.

the product code is PSPC0E

this is the same as the Toshiba P300-19N

this has a shared memory graphics card intel GMA x3100

This card will slow the laptop down as it has to share the 2gig of system memory. leaving less memory to run applications

P.s dont buy this if you are planning on playing any video game, solitaire is about its limits.

if you go to
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-...ist.844.0.html

it lists 130 different laptop graphics cards No:1 being the best to 130 being the worst

the Intel GMA x3100 is ranked 102 (enough said)

if you are looking for a fast laptop you should always look at the graphics card first and go for a dedicated card with at least 256mb. this means the processor and system memory dont have to pick up the slack and can get on doing what there designed for which is running programmes. Posted by pete, England
I saw Toshiba p300-161 on display in the Luton High street branch and have been told by the staff that I will get the same if i pay £199.99 with virgin broad band contract £40.00 per month for 24months. When I received my laptop, it was toshiba P300 -19N.
I asked for the refund for showing toshiba P300-161 and selling the model with half of the specification.It took me two months to get my money back and wasted my 70 hours talk time with different departments.

Sham on Carphonewarehouse!

Plz Be carefull when buying anything from carphonewarehouse.
Posted by Mrs S. Suleman, uk
good day sir i have been seeing nice laptop,and the always tell me it from toshiba.sir i like it if you can please send me one i will be very greatfull. Posted by AKOH NGOH BLAISE, cameroon