Take a look at the Black Friday sales coming up, hopefully you'll be able to get a decent computer at a good price. I got my current HP laptop from Currys/PC World two years ago on Black Friday
I personally wouldn't go with Virgin anything if I had a choice. Their broadband is quite poor; they give me "up to 70Mbps" currently yet on most days it's 40Mbps tops. Not 70Mbps...
And their upload service is terrible. With BT/Sky you get 20Mbps upload with the 76Mbps download package. With Virgin's "70Mbps" package, the upload is 5Mbps... just 1/4 of BT/Sky's speed! Plus, there are thresholds that, if you hit then, the speed reduces quite dramatically. The lower threshold (1.2GB) reduces the speed to 2.5Mbps, and the higher threshold (1.5GB) reduces the speed to 2Mbps.
Personally, I wouldn't accept that, 3G performs as well (or better) than that - and 4G would blow Virgin out of the water.
Oh yeah, and don't even get me started on the Virgin Mobile tariff I was on, the fact that Virgin charge extra for Caller ID for landline, and their forum admin James_W....
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