Wait, you’re trying to teach Lewie how to get good deals on PC stuff? Isn’t that a bit like preaching to the Pope? 🙂

Didnt for a second think you’d pay RRP 🙂 Do share the details if you can!

I’m pretty good at finding good deals. You don’t think I’m going to be paying rrp do you?

In all honesty you cant really get a super nice laptop for £700. More something midrange and heavy. The ultra light high spec laptops tend to be well over £1250 (like the Lenovo X1’s, the Macbook Pro’s and the Alienware latops)

I’m actually surprised Lewie isn’t setting his sights higher

Cheers for answering, i’m a curious person. Hope you’ll enjoy your laptop 😀

I earn a somewhat below average UK salary from SavyGamer. In the past I’ve supplemented this with freelance writing for other games sites, but I don’t really do any of that any more.

SavyGamer does seem to get more popular each year though, and the organic growth in usage equates to a gradually increasing salary.

I’m not that materialistic though, getting to do a job that I love, where I am my own boss, is worth more to me than a higher salary at a job I didn’t like would be.

Somebody call the internet police, someone just posted a message on their on fracking site and i don’t like that message.
Seriously, why bother posting this ? Nobody is forcing nobody to pay the said laptop. I for one don’t have a dime to spare, and £700 is quite honestly over 2 times the average wage where i live. So..i just won’t donate. Nobody will ban me or look at me in an angry way when i’ll visit the UK and meet with the savygamer comunity for a drink.
Somewhat unrelated, i know Lewie gets 1-5% from each spending visitor (i might be wrong, but i remember these figures from another post). I’d be curious to learn how much this ammounts to each month. Even if he’d make milions he’d be entitled to post whatever he wants for his more hardcore fans to support him, so it’s only my curious nature wondering this.

Don’t worry about it Lewie, clearly anon mis-interpretted your suggestion as a demand.

Or perhaps he/she understands there is no obligation to do such things and is instead being jealous that you can go out and get an awesome laptop. Personally last time i needed to get one I had no choice but to opt for the cheapest i could find*.

*(although have to say that a 15.6″ touchscreen 8gb RAM dual core (amd’s latest a4 series not the crap ‘e’ stuff 500gb hdd for £170 was fantastic for the price 😀 )

But I digress….. just keep posting fantastic prices and even the pessimists can’t complain about your personal investment in this site.

I’m not sure I understand what your problem is. I’m not expecting to receive the full amount, I’m just asking for contributions. I’ll be making up the rest myself.

I’ve tried to be upfront about the situation so people can make an informed choice.

If you or anyone else has any hesitance about donating, I’d strongly recommend keeping hold of your money. I just wrote this post so that people who would want to help me foot this unexpected bill had a chance to do so.

It’s one thing to ask for a little help when you say you NEED the device and ask for donations.
It’s another to set your sights so high and buy a £700 device.

Thanks.

Alright, think I can spare around 7 quid.

It’s a £700 laptop.