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Carphone Warehouse holds big laptop giveaway

We're giving up buying gadgets – we're just going to stock-up on giveaways.Latest to join the freebie craze is Carphone Warehouse. Tomorrow it's

We’re giving up buying gadgets – we’re just going to stock-up on giveaways.Latest to join the freebie craze is Carphone Warehouse. Tomorrow it’s hiding 200 laptops in four English cities (sorry Celtic chums) for anyone to pick up.The 15.4in Dell Inspirons will pack a Celeron 540 processor, 1GB RAM, an 80GB hard drive and have the low-end Vista Home Basic Edition installed.Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton and Newcastle will be the locales and although Carphone tells us they will be ‘chaperoned’ it did say we’d have to be ‘observant’ to spot them.But don’t worry if you don’t find one, it’s the same lappy that comes free with Carphone’s AOL broadband deal, which goes live from today. Sign up for 18 months and one will be delivered to your door – no undignified city centre hunting required.Essentials AOL Broadband Price: £20/month On sale: Now Contact: Carphone Warehouse Related stories: Dell’s bright new Inspirons Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK Carphone Warehouse confirms free broadband deal

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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