UK or Spanish

While the best deals are to be found in the UK there are many good computer shops to be found in Spain who will build you a computer to your specification and you don't have to go 1000 miles to get it fixed under the guarantee.

Unless your Spanish is excellent then resist the temptation to buy one of the good deals in the larger Spanish stores. Carrefour and PC City for instance often have desktops which are very competitively priced but the operating system (Windows) is in Spanish and the only way to change it to English is to reinstall the windows from an English windows disk. This is not a cheap option as a licensed copy of Windows Vista is €116 for the home premium version. In the larger Spanish stores you are well advised not to believe a word the assistants tell you, they only want to make a sale and will deny everything when you go back. If you have a question then research it for yourself to be sure you get the truth. The same applies to the telecom companies when you are thinking of buying ADSL, challenge everything. Most of the stores will tell you the computer you are thinking of can be switched to English. What they then do is sell you a UK copy of your operating system and they often don't install all the drivers you need so you end up with a partially operating computer.

In the Torrevieja area I have a great deal of confidence in PC 30, a small Spanish computer shop in Benijofar. I have purchased a number of computers from them for my customers and they are all working well and have not given any trouble. They will supply your new computer with English windows installed if you ask them for it. Frank speaks excellent English and Oscar does his best.  If you would rather buy from a UK store such as Argos, PC World, Tesco Direct, etc then I would recommend the service provided by www.ukshoppinginspain.com I have used them for large items and the service is excellent. San Luis computers have an improving reputation and I have used several of their €300 towers recently which have given good performance at a sensible price.

Another option is to import a computer from a UK company who will deliver to Spain. A few of my customers have done this from R L Supplies who have a wide range of new and refurbished notebook and desktop computers available from their website.