£299.92 laptop at Tesco

twe

Dell have some current offers, £399 laptop or £380 if you go through a cashback site: code UKDHSONL-N07136 offer finishes in a day or 2....

1.7GHz Centrino processor
512MB RAM
60GB HD
DVD writer
wireless lan

also bigger battery is only £11 more or 15.4" screen is £35 more otherwise its a 14.1" screen....

Littlecocovilla

startrekker wrote:

In the new back to school leaflet is the following.

Acer Travelmate wireless widescreen laptop

intel celeron 380
256 mb ram
40gb hard drive
Dvd re-writer
15.4 inch screen

£299.92.
Sent the wife up to our local store(I do hate shopping) None in yet but are due in.
Bargain or what?

not very good specs for a laptop though it depends on what you are going to use it for at the end of the day isn't it.:D

TESCO_R+R_RAIDER

for vista to run you need 512mb ram/ harddrive space it take up 15gb so any one buying this laptop would have to upgrade to min 80gb hdd. graphics card min128mb.
most acers now have built in wifi . but the specs for a basic laptop it is ok it should also come with windows xp home. the dvd rw is 8x cdrw 24x

nej

Why is everyone so concerned about upgrading it to Vista? What's the point? XP is perfectly good, and there is no need for it at all!

I'm still running Win2k on my work laptop - and not once have I thought "Ooh, I could really do with XP here!"

comicmankev

Exactly, nobody is gonna have to worry about Vista for a good few years. And, it may run on 512 but 1g is optimum. As stated, this is a good price for a lappy, good for the techies? NO, but good for the average joe.

Please remember that there's still people out there using 95 and especially 98 and still very happy. Not everyone wants to keep up with the jones's (or should that be Gates's).

Alison_B

Wanted a laptop for my 14 year old for his options next year. This is a great price, so not going to break the bank.

Littlecocovilla

I am quite happy with windows xp professional i wouldn't use anything else.

nej

comicmankev wrote:

Exactly, nobody is gonna have to worry about Vista for a good few years. And, it may run on 512 but 1g is optimum. As stated, this is a good price for a lappy, good for the techies? NO, but good for the average joe.

Please remember that there's still people out there using 95 and especially 98 and still very happy. Not everyone wants to keep up with the jones's (or should that be Gates's).

Hey, I'm a techie and I'm thinking of buying one! It'll be a secondary machine, as the desktop is the main one, but for web/email/word etc it'll be fine. Should even run Eclipse for some Java development without too many problems (maybe a RAM upgrade though).

Does anyone know when this is actually appearing in stores? The tesco website shows nothing about it.

qwertycrazy77

Just been to my local Tesco and they dont have any... boo hoo

Alison_B

I spoke to my local store about this yesterday and they told me that it should be in the stores in the next week or 2.