[barryhynd]

Hi Gordon,

I'm not a huge fan of them myself as I feel the overall contract cost is far in excess of what it costs to buy a machine. Typically what you will get will be a quite low spec laptop or what in effect is a netbook which does limit to an extent what you can actually do with it.

These offers typically come with web access via a mobile dongle and if that is of any use to you it may work out ok and also mean you dont have to pay for a unit upfront.

I would make sure however and take a note of what the exact spec is and maybe post it on here just to make sure what you purchase will have some sort of shelf life.