New Laptop - £352.49

Kilty_2

CAT-THE-FIFTH wrote:

Acers looke better though !!

Each to his/her own but I've held a cheap Acer Aspire and was worried that if I owned it for a long period of time it would get damaged, felt so cheap and flimsy.

I own a Dell Inspiron 1300 and although it just has a bog standard plastic casing it is a lot more sturdy and there is more protection behind the LCD.

Ripperoo

Dunno if it's any use to anyone, but there's also a 'Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2030' at MicroDirect for £352.

Another 3% off going through 'Quidco' too I believe.

Anyway, the specs:

Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz (1 MB - L2 Cache)
15" TFT active matrix XGA (1024 x 768)
256 MB DDR II 533 MHz SDRAM
40GB Serial ATA-150 (5400 rpm) HDD
CD-RW / DVD-ROM Combo Drive
Wireless LAN
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition - English
Stereo Speakers

I'm pretty sure this is the same model & specs as the £399 one that Staples had on offer at the weekend (no DVDRW tho' ).

Could do with a memory and battery upgrade, but I jave the bigger brother V2040 and it's a great little machine.

rdwarr

Kilty wrote:

In my opinion, the Dells have far superior build quality to these flimsy cheap Acers.

I used to run a laptop repair business. It definitely wasn't the Acers that were flimsy I now buy them for a software company.

Timmy

Babbler wrote:

How?? Id be interested to know...

This was the deal a month or two ago on the Dell website. I got the same sort of deal but mine was faulty so I'm still waiting on a replacement.

dc2447

acer laptops suck

Tharweb

dc2447 wrote:

acer laptops suck

Not in my experience, each to their own.

Let's face it for a sub £400 laptop any makes got to be worth the money.

monkeyspanner

Babbler wrote:

How?? Id be interested to know...

Dell were offering free postage and double memory at the time. There hasn't been a comparable offer since.

dc2447

Tharweb wrote:

Not in my experience, each to their own.

Let's face it for a sub £400 laptop any makes got to be worth the money.

There has been quite a few sub £400 laptops over the lat year that were worth having - the thinkpad and the Tosh are two that spring to mind.

For me the sub £400 Acer's are a false economy

Tharweb

dc2447 wrote:

There has been quite a few sub £400 laptops over the lat year that were worth having - the thinkpad and the Tosh are two that spring to mind.

For me the sub £400 Acer's are a false economy

Even the Tesco ones? A Centrino laptop for less than £400

jackashton1

acers alwys go round and their service is terrible