Laptop Insurance

[Guest sxywill2005]

OK heres the story, last year I bought a Medion notebook. Unfortunately I tripped over the cables and my laptop fell on the floor breaking it.

So I look at the warranty and...

1. It doesn't cover accidental damage

2. It ran out a week before

So I ring up my insurers who said they would replace it. They said that I would need to send it off to Dixons to see if they could repair or replace with a same spec model. Dixons replied by saying it was a too high spec to replace for the budget of £1000 which I bought it for. So my insurers said that I would now have to find the same spec so they could get it for me.

My Medion Laptop runs on:

3 GHz P4

512 MB RAM

60 GB H/D

DVD-RW

64 MB GeForce FX 5350

15 Inch Screen

Integrated TV tuner

54 MBS WI-FI

Windows XP Home

There the main specs but I am having trouble matching it as of the intergrated TV Tuner.

Please reply with a link to a laptop you find to be of a simular/same spec for under £1000

I have found these:

http://www.higrade.com/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=3329

http://laptops.tiny.com/computers/power_la..._PowerLite_G910

If I can't find the same spec what should I say to my insurer?

[Guest Madeye]

I did pretty much the same thing a few weeks ago and my insurer said the same thing to me...

I chose one from Acer and I'm very very happy with it. Just thought I'd suggest that. Also the one I chose had a 64bit AMD Athlon 3400, 512mb RAM, Geforce graphics, 80gig HD, CD/DVD burner, 54Mbps WAN, built in card reader etc (no tv tuner) all for around £850. Not bad.

The only other thing I can suggest is asking the insurance company to get you a similarly spec'd laptop and a pcmcia tv tuner card seperately. That might not be ideal tho. I dunno, good luck anyway!

:)