Computers from Cash Converter or Cash Generator?

poppasmurf_bewdley

Coincidence or what. I was looking in Cash Generator in Kidderminster today and they had a (Lenovo?) laptop with Windows 7 for £199.

I didn't ask about warranty or anything, but it looked a reasonable buy.

ClarkeKent

Get yourself on Ebuyer and order a brand new one for £169. You'll have it by Wednesday and it won't have someones dodgy hard drive on it. The spec at either store will be nowhere near this either.

http://www.ebuyer.com/698278-lenovo-b50-30-laptop-mca39uk

whattochoose

Fightsback wrote: »

Take for example this from the argos outlet on Ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-G50-15-6-inch-Intel-2-16GHz-Quad-Core-4GB-1TB-Laptop-Black-/171841565094?hash=item28028e31a6

more here:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Argos-Outlet?category=175672&categoryName=Laptops%20&%20Netbooks

NB argos refurbs are 12months warranty.

Many thanks, I never knew of this particular retailer, i.e. Argos through Ebay.
One thing that struck when looking was that there were no Dell computers, wonder why that is? At one time Dell were quite prominent on Argos.

whattochoose

ClarkeKent wrote: »

Get yourself on Ebuyer and order a brand new one for £169. You'll have it by Wednesday and it won't have someones dodgy hard drive on it. The spec at either store will be nowhere near this either.

http://www.ebuyer.com/698278-lenovo-b50-30-laptop-mca39uk

That looks like excellent value.
Thank you.

Fightsback

whattochoose wrote: »

That looks like excellent value.
Thank you.

I'd shop a bit harder that's a celeron N series, they are quite slow.

This is £199 but a core I3-4005U, much better processor and graphics.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toshiba-L50-B-1NM-15-6-Inch-Ci3-Processor-4GB-1TB-Laptop-/161649552627

20aday

Fightsback wrote: »

I'd shop a bit harder that's a celeron N series, they are quite slow.

This is £199 but a core I3-4005U, much better processor and graphics.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toshiba-L50-B-1NM-15-6-Inch-Ci3-Processor-4GB-1TB-Laptop-/161649552627

My friend has an Acer Laptop he'd received from Christmas with said processor. For general day to day browsing/checking emails it's not too bad in terms of speed. It won't set the world on fire but it's "okay."

Having said that the laptop you've linked to was originally £349.99 at Argos (and currently £279.99) so that's a decent saving (and the reviews are mainly positive).

Fightsback

20aday wrote: »

My friend has an Acer Laptop he'd received from Christmas with said processor. For general day to day browsing/checking emails it's not too bad in terms of speed. It won't set the world on fire but it's "okay."

Having said that the laptop you've linked to was originally £349.99 at Argos (and currently £279.99) so that's a decent saving (and the reviews are mainly positive).

The CPU in that is about 2.5x faster than the celeron.

sillygoose

In slight defence of Cash Converters, you can get something worthwhile but you have to be prepared to do a bit of work. I got an absolutely pristine Acer Aspire One Netbook for a good price. (The laptops will come with whatever operating system was on it, they don't wipe them).

Popped in a bigger RAM, reformatted the hard drive, installed a fresh copy of Windows using the Windows licence sticker on it, downloaded drivers from Acer. Job done. Its no ball of fire but its dual core and capable of quite a lot of tasks, sits on the arm of the sofa and is rarely off on an evening.

There is a lot of tat on cash converters for sure, but I do find the descriptions reasonably honest and they will often take an offer 15% below the listed price. I am currently keeping an eye on the site as my daughter will need a laptop soon and I want a Windows 7 machine.

You can get cheap new laptops but most have pretty weak processors.

gjchester

On more than one occasion we have "found" our corporate devices in the local pawnbroker stores (different name, not Cash Converter, and may only be a local group with a few outlets). Found is a misnomer, they had not even removed the corporate asset tag.


Check carefully what you are getting, the big chains may be more stringent with checking of sellers IDs and providence but its anyways a potential issue.

skintpaul

CG - I paid £180 for a Dell laptop, with a fair spec, though battery was dud (not charging- was advertised as such, though i didn't think to check on cost of a replacement!)