The Great 'Cheapest Decent Laptop' Hunt

slojo

monkeyspanner wrote:

Offer valid on selected :
Dell Inspiron 6400: N03641, N03642
Dell Inspiron 9400: N03941, N03942, N03943

Offer valid on selected :
Dell Dimension 9150: D03911a, D03912,D03913
Dell Dimension 5150C: D035c2, D035c3

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Can this discount be used with the quidco 4.5% cashback as well?

Hillfly

slojo wrote:

Out of interest, why would you go for that one rather than the Dell N03136 which has better spec for £339?

I must agree that i would go with the Dell over that Acer.
You get DVD writer & wireless inlcuded - neither of which you get in the Acer.

Dell's are pretty solid machines.

monkeyspanner

slojo wrote:

Can this discount be used with the quidco 4.5% cashback as well?

Sorry--I can't say for certain but I would think so as Quidco links you to the Dell site. I would assume you get the 5% discount on the original price and then Qidco collect the 4.5% on the net price thus overall discount 9.275%.

JamesHughes_3

Well, I have just got a Acer3003LC with wireless PCMCIA card, plus extra 256MB Ram, cost was just over £400 I think - and having used it for a couple of weeks I am very impressed.

Battery life is a bit low, but I use it plugged in most of the time. Speed is great, screen is great, keyboard good.

I needed a really cheap laptop, and got what I think is a piece of kit that appears much better than the price would suggest.

Ebuyer Belkin laptop case at £12 was also a real steal!!

We have some Dell laptops here at work, and I am less impressed with them than this cheap Acer.

James

top_notch

They are just ridiculously cheap now

Slapps

i wos under the believe that until the year's warranty ( if you haven't brought more) that should you want 2 upgrade either memory or hard drive that it has 2 b a dell product so that you don't invald the warranty!!
plz let me know if i am wrong on this.
Slapps :eek:

Browntoa

you are wrong on this

no problem with you upgrading the laptops memory invalidating the warranty

Slapps

i never said that upgrading the ram would invalidate the warranty. just said that it has b dell ram while in warranty but thank you for the reply as if this is not the case then i'm not the kinda person 2 want 2 say wrongly 2 others.

Slapps

P.S i still don't like dell pmsl

BritishBeef

Update on my previous post in this thread (#593).

I rang Acer support and got through within 10 minutes. Spoke to a really helpful support person who took my details etc. and gave me the details to ring City Link to arrange collection of my laptop. I rang City Link and arranged collection the very same day (Monday). City Link collected my laptop just an hour later!

I got the laptop back successfully repaired on Friday. 5 days including the 2 days with the courier I cannot complain about at all. To me, apart from a laptop that wasn't broken out of the box, I couldn't have asked for more.

Obviously this is just my experience, but I felt I had to post my positive experience after all the worries I had after reading other forums and all the horror stories about Acer's customer service and repairs. I don't doubt that things go wrong with repairs at Acer and maybe they are worse than other companies but how many people have good service from Acer but don't post about it on the web?

I know I normally complain about a company on forums and not praise them when they do well and I expect others are the same. From now on though, I'm going to make sure I praise companies that do the right thing by me.

TallPaul01_2

Just wanting to get peoples opinion on this laptop seems good value to me.

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/572_289396.html