£299.92 laptop at Tesco

greyster

Kilty wrote:

Ahh another example of someone who knows nothing so uses the old "Celeron Sucks" to put down these new mobile chips.

These are NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING like the Celeron of old, that would get hot enough to cook eggs and have no L2 cache whatsoever.

They have 1MB of L2 Cache, compared with your P3's paltry 256K and run at a 400mhz FSB instead of 100.

Not only that, but the 400mhz FSB means they use faster RAM so all around performance puts that P3 of yours under the table.

NEXT!

Kilty_2

Heh, brilliant

tr3mor

Kilty wrote:

Ahh another example of someone who knows nothing so uses the old "Celeron Sucks" to put down these new mobile chips.

These are NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING like the Celeron of old, that would get hot enough to cook eggs and have no L2 cache whatsoever.

They have 1MB of L2 Cache, compared with your P3's paltry 256K and run at a 400mhz FSB instead of 100.

Not only that, but the 400mhz FSB means they use faster RAM so all around performance puts that P3 of yours under the table.

NEXT!

Oh my mistake, I'll go to tescos and buy one then, and on the way home i'll buy the wheelbarrow and generator to make it portable!

Kilty_2

tr3mor wrote:

Oh my mistake, I'll go to tescos and buy one then, and on the way home i'll buy the wheelbarrow and generator to make it portable!

Forget the portability, I was talking specifically about the Celeron-M itself.

People see Celeron and think of the Desktop chips of old which were, rightly, AWFUL.

These are simply cut down Pentium-M chips and give great performance for what they cost, and as for comparing it to a P3M, theres no competition, Cel-M would win every time.

For what its worth, if you want a portable laptop that will run for 7+ hours you wouldnt spend £300. For what most people want a £300 laptop for it's fine. My £350 Dell will run for a good 3.5-4 hours and for what I need it for, that's ample time on battery.

lemontart

OGB03 wrote:

Thank you all for your advice. May just pick one up anyway and use it solely for business and travel. My 'goal' is to buy a laptop for £199, but as I watch the prices I think I'm about a year away from that.:cool:

Sounds good to me..............any joy with this.

beth
xx

Thunderbird_2

Hello everyone

I managed to get through the acer helpline and the problem truned out to be a crrupted file of the audio system and the advisor guided me kindly and patiently through the acer website to download the required driver to make my speakers' sound to become normal.

It is very good value for money.

Wireless capability
Dvd writer
15.4'' screen
1.6 Gh processor
40 G hard disc
256 Mb ram
Genuine XP home edition

All for £299.92 ( 297.92 with clubcard points, which could be 287.92 if you use them in club card deals!!!)

Thank you for your support. I am so happy now with this laptop!!


Thunderbird

nej

Tried mine last night and was fine, so looks like you were just unlucky. Glad you got it sorted though.

I'm still mega impressed with it - it really is a great bargain.

point3

nej wrote:

I called all our local stores again, who still could not give me exact dates (other than "maybe next week"), so I called Southampton on Sunday and they said they'd reserve me two. So I jumped in the car and drove there (I live in Surrey!).

Top marks for effort, nej!!

Tesco Cheam Park got a delivery yesterday - went on the shelves this morning. Just got mine .

pud77

What do you guys who bought one think of the screen ? Is the native resolution crisp and clear ? Colours ? Blacks ? Whites ?
Also, how long are you getting from the battery on normal general use, internet surfing etc ?

Any info apreciated

greyster

pud77, its a good display .. i've used advent, IBM and Acers recently. You are not going to get a better display laptop without spending a lot more.

Battery is prolly standard for any non above average battery and won't last 3 hours ... prolly closer to two as new. Nothing stopping you buying a better one. There is power management facility to slow your CPU down and dim the backlight, so you might get a little longer out of it.

As the OP said ... laptops really arent that portable. I got a highly priced IBM Thinkpad on load to me from work and it can last 3-3.5 hours if I don't do anything super intense on it, but then again its new and closer to the £1k mark than £299.

So in sum, prolly one of the best I seen in this price range ... if you are v. picky, be prepared to spend closer to double or bite the bullet and get a desktop - get whatever quality screen you want for half the price with a better spec machine.