Good £499.99 Laptop at Comet

rdwarr

Comet are currently selling the Acer Aspire 1691WLMi online for £499.99. That's £100 lower than the shop price.
Key features are:
* Processor speed: 1.60 GHz
* Processor: Intel Pentium M
* Screen size: 15.4" brightwidescreen
* Storage: 60 GB
* RAM: 512 Mb
* Records DVDs: 8x
with full details on the site.

I've been buying Acers recently for staff/clients and they've been very well received and regarded.

HINT: Buy the Acer extended warranty from eBuyer for below £55 for a basic three year cover.

ANOTHER HINT: 3.5% Quidco cashback brings the effective price down to £485.10.

bubbles2007

how does it compare with dell laptops? you can get similar spec for the same price or less?

could be interested in this as i get 10% purchases at comet!

rdwarr

I imagine some people will prefer Dell and some Acer. My own experience lends me to favour the latter but I'm sure others may feel the opposite. I like the Dell Latitude but feel the Inspiron lacks build quality and reliability.

xueta

bubbles2007 wrote:

how does it compare with dell laptops? you can get similar spec for the same price or less?

could be interested in this as i get 10% purchases at comet!

Hi bubbles,

If you have a Virgin credit card, then you can order £450 worth of Comet gift vouchers for £391.50 (i.e. 13% discount). If you can get Comet to match the online price instore and use your 10% staff discount, then the laptop would effectively cost you £391.50. This is a good price for this spec laptop, even compared alongside Dell's offers.

bestyman

I have just bought a dell inspiron 1300
1.5 intel proccesor
256 ram ( added another 512 myself for < £30 so now 750 ish
widescreen 15.4
dvd writer
upgraded 4 hour battery


Sorry but mine cost £330. (£360 with more ram ) How can this possibly be a grabbit at £170 more for only a slightly better machine / £140 with less ram

old_system

bestyman wrote:

Sorry but mine cost £330. (£360 with more ram ) How can this possibly be a grabbit at £170 more for only a slightly better machine / £140 with less ram

The all important centrino, i bought this when it was £580 a while back and well impressed, great battery, nice and fast, wouldnt go back to a celeron. The warranty is also good value, especially if youre carrying around often.

Problem is you have to catch the dell offers quickly, there wasnt much on offer when i bought mine so got this.

jackashton1

this has a pentium M processor, whereas the dell probably had a celeron. A 1.6 M is a lot more poweful than a 1.6 celeron.. A LOT

Cee

Bought an Acer over 3 years ago, never had to format it and its been through the mill. I'd buy another if i needed another...

monkeyspanner

bubbles2007 wrote:

how does it compare with dell laptops? you can get similar spec for the same price or less?

could be interested in this as i get 10% purchases at comet!

Nearest Dell deal at the moment is e-value code N04137 for £479 delivered 90day collect and return warantee. Same basic spec but Jack is right its a celeron M. Or you could go for N04136 £468.45 which has 1.8 Pentium M but only 40G HD. Upgrade to 60G HD brings total to £521.32. All these Dell have built in WIFI but so does the Acer. You would need to upgrade the Dell battery pack for an extra £12 to get the same performance.

JPS

So what you are all trying to say is...this is actually a really good deal!! Looks like a reallllly good spec for under £500 - and Acer are very good.

Thanks rdwarr! Now...wheres that spare 500 quid I had lying around....;)

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jackashton1 wrote:

this has a pentium M processor, whereas the dell probably had a celeron. A 1.6 M is a lot more poweful than a 1.6 celeron.. A LOT

No it's not. The Dell had a Celeron-M which is very similar in performance to a Pentium-M of the same speed. The main difference in performance is due to the speed of the processor. The only difference is that the Pentium-M has double the cache but for nearly all applications the Celeron-M still has plenty of cache. The main advantage is battery life.

However I'd say the £499 is a very good price.