Acer Desktop, Intel Q8300, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Blu-Ray, Windows 7 Home Premium £499.99 @Ebuyer

Computerman · *Last edited by Computerman : 03-11-2009 at 22:05.*

£549.99 similar spec apart from 640GB HDD, 802.11n wireless adaptar and ati 4330 512mb gddr2. http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/stor...ory_oid=-32843

DragonChris

Nice one

bchirpy

seems like a pretty awesome spec for the money!

Besford · *Last edited by Besford : 04-11-2009 at 10:35.*

"A choice of the latest quad-core or dual-core processors". What does that mean, what do you actually get?

All that spec and still only x4 USB ports - you can never have too many!

I'm tempted but cautious because of Acer's poor backup reputation (and eBuyer's?). Any views out there?

DanTheManc

Besford:

All that spec and still only x4 USB ports - you can never have too many!

4 at the front and 6 at the rear it says

Computerman · *Last edited by Computerman : 04-11-2009 at 02:19.*

Besford:
"A choice of the latest quad-core or dual-core processors". What does that mean, what do you actually get?

All that spec and still only x4 USB ports - you can never have too many!

I'm tempted but cautious because of Acer's poor backup reputation (and eBuyers?). Any views out there?

usb ports can easily be solved with a usb hub powered or non powered. Havent much complaints about ebuyer on this forum lately, no retailer is perfect, the last complaints i heard about them was of customer service. As for Acer yes there are alot of anti acer people on here but for me im a happy acer customer, as there warranties are really cheap and my laptop is still working fine after 10-11 monnhs use.

Theres actually a total of 10 usb ports so there is definitely no shortage of usb ports. Unfortunately there not any reviews as this is a new item product to win 7.

jameslaw123

which pc would you recommend ?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168382

nihcaj

Computerman:
Havent much complaints about ebuyer on this forum lately, no retailer is perfect, the last complaints i heard about them was of customer service.

It seems they are still deleting negative reviews from their site though, as they have done with mine and many others in the past - this post was yesterday:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/51845...43&postcount=6

Besford

jameslaw123:
which pc would you recommend ?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168382

Thanks. Good spec and I like Fujitsu (current PC Fujitsu Siemens has been fine for 4 years) but I'm looking for Win7 pre-installed and this is Vista.

Computerman · *Last edited by Computerman : 04-11-2009 at 13:05.*

jameslaw123:
which pc would you recommend ?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168382

if you play games the fujitsu would be a better buy if you dont play games get the acer.
Heres the thread on the fujitsu pc http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/46535...635-desktop-pc
The differences is that acer has more ram, slightly faster cpu, windows 7 and slightly cheaper. The onl;y advantage the fujistsu pc has is the ATi 4850 graphics card which can be bought separately for about £75.

Besford

Thanks again for all the advice but what about the issue of Acer's reputation? Is it valid for desktops too? My expertise, such as it is, is as a user not a fixer; I don't want to be fiddling with software or hardware every few months!

jameslaw123

Computerman:
if you play games the fujitsu would be a better buy if you dont play games get the acer.
Heres the thread on the fujitsu pc http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/46535...635-desktop-pc
The differences is that acer has more ram, slightly faster cpu, windows 7 and slightly cheaper. The onl;y advantage the fujistsu pc has is the ATi 4850 graphics card which can be bought separately for about £75.

thanks for answering, do you know if the ATi 4850 is 512MB or 1GB

Computerman · *Last edited by Computerman : 04-11-2009 at 19:13.*

jameslaw123:
thanks for answering, do you know if the ATi 4850 is 512MB or 1GB

no i dont but its most likely to be 512MB as that one is cheaper. If it was 1GB id assume they would state it was 1GB as that would be more appealing to customers.

Scissorhands

I'm not sure what this machine is spec'd for.

All that RAM seems great, but you're only going to notice it with gaming or something extremely graphics instensive - so why only have onboard sound and graphics?

It's a machine spec designed to wow people who don't know what they want their machine for. I'd avoid it.

Acer Desktop, Intel Q8300, 6GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Blu-Ray, Windows 7 Home Premium £499.99 @Ebuyer

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