£378 Sempron 2800+ laptop, £349 Dual 18-in TFT PC

GOODIESon sale at Ebay.co.uk. There's a brand new Dell Dimension 3000 for sale for only £399.99 inc VAT. It comes with an Intel Celeron 2.66Ghz, 1GB RAM, a 160GB HDD and a CDRW drive plus a beautiful 17-inch TFT monitor. You also get a keyboard, mouse, Windows XP HE SP2 and a one year onsite warrranty.

Dell.com is selling its new Inspiron 9300 Desktop replacement notebook for only $899 using code Z?2PWLKGRH33L at check out. You get a free Dell 720 Printer. The laptop has the new Intel 915 Express chipset, a Pentium M 730 running at 1.6Ghz, 256MB memory, 40GB HDD, a DVD/CDRW combo, a huge 17-inch WXGA+ screen, Wireless Ethernet card and one year warranty.

Jo Brown of CRS does have some deals for our readers. Remember that all their units are cleaned, tested and data wiped with a 90-day swap-out warranty and a 14-day money back guarantee. They still have loads of their Dell Precision Dual LCD monitor offer at £349+VAT. You get two NEC Multisync 1860NX 18-inch TFT monitors and one Dell Dimension 330 Pentium IV base unit. Use coupon number EMNEC1860 and EM33017 to get those special prices. The Dimension 660 has 512MB RDR memory, a DVD drive, a dual Head Matrox G450 card, Windows 2000 Pro installed and a 9GB SCSI Hard disk. Enough for you to run a 2560x1024 virtual desktop.

Looking for a cheap 512MB USB 2.0 Flash drive, then look no further than the Dabs.com dabsvalue model for only £20.42+VAT. They're manufactured by Yifang digital. If it's a cheap laptop that you're after, have a look at the GAspire 1362LC AMD Sempron 2800+ laptop. Yeah, it has only 256MB memory and a 40GB HDD. But you do get a socket 754 Sempron 2800+ CPU, a 15-inch TFT display, a DVD/CDRW combo and Windows XP. All for only £377.86+VAT. If you fancy buying second hand, then ebuyer has the same model for only £357.60 or for £29 more get the 3002LC which comes with a 60GB HDD and a SIS Chipset.

Tigerdirect has a refurbished HP Pavillion A800N AMD Athlon XP 3200+ computer for only $399.99. It comes with 512MB memory, a 160GB HDD, a DVD ROM, a CDRW, a flash media reader, LAN, Windows XP Home as well as keyboard and mouse. Everything else is integrated.

*** Anyone knows of German IT/hardware shops shipping to UK ** We're trying to convince resellers in this column to offer freebies or additional discounts to our readers. If you do buy from any of the guys listed here, just tell them that you come from theINQUIRER'S daily buys column. And, resellers or readers alike, if you have some hot and spicy deals. Send me a line. µ