Acer Aspire Deals & Offers

Ah that's rubbish. I got mine today.

Just had emails from Tesco cancelling and refunding me due to stock issues :-( Back on the hunt now!

Thanks....Any recommendation on SSD to buy? Is it easy to upgrade/swap? Sorry I dont know much on this subject

Out of stock again

Depends on what you're doing on it I guess. An SSD is far faster than the HDD - this'll speed up everything on the machine, but then it's not as much storage as the HP one. 128GB will probably be enough for general-everyday use - it might become a problem if you want to store lots of video/audio files on the machine rather than streaming (Spotify/Netflix/Amazon/iPlayer etc). Should be more than enough for your photos, and should run like a dream for most things you throw at it - the laptop has got a pretty good processor, with a decent amount of RAM for the price.

Well somebody must have liked them as they are all gone now. Hope it helped. I'm a big fan of HUKD but I think sometimes people forget that all we all want is some good value and bargains. I was watching this item on eBay for £99 for a few weeks debating if I should buy it or not and today it dropped to £79. So i got one. It's got 12 month warranty with a reputable seller so I'm covered. For me, that is a good deal. Agree you can spend a bit more and get better spec refurbs etc. Over and out - I'll expire

Sorry, I keep hitting the "Z" instead of the "X" on this keyboard; usually I notice, but had a customer come in and missed it before posting. Point is, this is little more than a one trick pony that isnt going to cope at all well in the long term, whereas something like the X220 isnt that expensive and has the cpu power and upgrade potential to keep going for the next 10 years. i had a "cheap n cheerful for browsing" Asus machine, and it was slow from day one, and only got slower; this weighs 0.4KG more and is about 40 times as powerful.

This may help: http://www.slabbe.org/blogue/2018/05/installing-ubuntu-18.04-on-aspire-es-11-es1-132-c6lg/

I doubt it. There is no such product. If you meant an X220 - its a completely different product. The point about these is the size and weight. There isn't very much available with this footprint at any price with beefy specs. You don't need them if its primary purpose is a bit of browsing. I'm a fan of refurb Thinkpads and had an earlier variant with similar characteristics. Great machine but no replacement for my venerable Samsung Chromebook. When that croaks I may replace it with something like this or the HP Stream running Linux Mint XFCE.

Should be ok for an eleven year old in school!? Or think I should just pay more now rather than buying this?

Thanx, will expire it ...

Gold Star for you, and yes, Gold Star for you AGAIN!, hehehehe. (Your Tablet market + Notebook market comments I get, but the others?). :-( There's certain obvious 'reasons' for that I reckon ... (But saying all that, that doesn't exactly make it 100% right though, does it? - let's be real?). :-( I'm more into tinkering with PC's I've had in the past, then that of tinkering with Laptop's I've also had in the past, lol. But one thing I've ALWAYS appreciated irrespective of whether I tinkered with the PC, and/or Laptop, is their internal accessibility 'options'?. :-) Lack of them, and/or soldered part's that traditionally were NOT technically 'designed' to be 'tampered with' all over the place like such, etc (eg. CPU's, and/or RAM, etc?), then ... :-( What at all gives man?, lol. Hmmmmmmmmmm, it does make one wonder at time's, doesn't it?. :-(

I can understand soldering RAM thin tablets and ultrabooks but on bog standard laptops it makes no sense. Also if the RAM goes faulty you can't swap it out, you'd have to send it back to the manufacture for repair. Another thing that annoys me in recent times is the lack of access covers on laptops for memory and RAM upgrades. You often have to take the whole back of the laptop off to do these upgrades now with many manufactures now stating in maintenance manuals that this is only to be done by approved service providers causing possible warranty problems if you attempt to upgrade yourself.

£499 now

Idiots! I think the max RAM for this is 4+ 16 so 20 is still a lot. I'll see how I get on with 4gb for a few days then upgrade to 8 My SSD I'm hoping will just go straight in, somebody above mentioned I might need to buy a casing to hold it, never had that issue before on any other laptops!

Very similar - this one has a slightly larger screen but 4gb less ram. That one is out of stock now though.

Is it better then https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-14-bw020na-laptop-14-amd-a6-8gb-1tb-hdd-190-with-code-tesco-ebay-outlet-3123591 thanks

Yes, absolutely fine. Bear in mind it won't play games very well, but for web browsing & microsoft office, absolutely fine.

Would this be any good for a teenager who would use it for school homework etc out of interest (highfive)

Is that this model though, with these specs, or an older one? ....

not a best buy, but 'which' rates it 59%

To be fair, it's not the best of CPU's and scores less than the Ryzen 3 that was on here past couple of days. Be under no illusion this is anything other than a surfing and YouTube laptop.

Yeah just surf online (where else) and word This will handle the majority of tasks for the vast majority of users. It's won't play high end games, as you should expect for £255. Fortunately, many of us have other things to do than to play games ! Oh, show me a similar laptop for half the price. Knew the stupid comments would still come even when prompted.

Exactly the reason I bought it for too....couldn't find anything similar brand new at this price so thought it was a good buy :/

It’s an amazing gaming PC since it’s going to be 1080 P 60fps.

Yes and apparently they have fifa 20 to compare!

Not bad for a family desktop that can also do some light gaming. The 300w power supply would limit any GPU upgrade however.

How can I run a game is really useful. Do you have a link please so I can try a few more. Sorry, found it now, I was on the reviews section!!

Thanks after a long day looking for deals I decided to spend a bit more and get this one. Also did Quidco with 5% cashback. Think my daughter will be happy xmas day

Topcashback is offering 7% cashback for Acer laptop. https://www.topcashback.co.uk/acer/

Would this be a basic gaming machine to play fortnight and Minecraft ?

is this any good ? https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/dell-inspiron-15-3000-156-intelr-coretm-i5-laptop-256-gb-ssd-449-currys-3105770#thread-comments

Thanks. I'm catching up quickly 😁

Not certain the benefit, what are you trying to achieve

That will work fine as secondary storage

Could you not upgrade 1 of the RAM slots to 8g giving 12gb total? Or if you’re gonna make it worthwhile is 16gb the way to go? Any CEX links appreciated for which type is needed thanks

I bought this SDD when it was down to 50 quid the other day presume it will work no problem? https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01F9G46Q8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

its a sata m.2, creating recovery disk is taking sometime, is it okay to delete old windows installions that would free up 30ggb

Can I add a SSD in addition to the existing HDD to this do you know?

Look at cpubenchmark and compare with 8th gens.

Better CPU but if its running 620 graphics will still struggle with most games. Having said that any laptop at this price point will have some compromises.

I was looking at the i7-7500 for £599

If the idealpad is the one with the i5-7200U I would give it a mis for gaming, that CPU is a tad weak.

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You ever seen a Chromebook with a 1tb HDD?

Windows 10 does say on product info

Windows? Chrome OS?

It’s £399.00 less £20 with the code = £379.00 not £379.99.

no more Acer

Tempted but the 128gb sounds like would fill up pretty soon post windows and office being on there.

Bought - thanks OP !

no its not!!

Yes, the cheaper Acer has just gone up £30! So I think the Acer with i5 and 8GB RAM is better value (though its not FHD https://www.acer.com/datasheets/2017/4876/A315-51/NX.GNPEK.020.html )

That one from Box is far better. It has an Solid State Drive(which is much faster than a traditional Hard Drive), and has more real memory (8GB vs 4GB). The whole laptop will be a much better experience.

Sorry quite inexperienced on laptops. Would you recommend the one I've posted or this one? https://www.box.co.uk/NX.GSYEK.012-Acer-Aspire-5-A515-51-86VY_2403745.html#DetailTop Cheers

Nope Nope. Full spec list: Only 4GB of RAM, and a 1TB HDD. "20GB Memory" is a marketing term and the Optane will make a difference, but an SSD would have been far better.

It is classified as a separate card though; even a basic Intel HD card will run applications better than a system with none but that's obvious

I wouldnt call Intels internal video card a "dedicated graphics card". The processor will just end up doing most of the work. This laptop should sell for £500 to be a decent price to get.

its good spec for a general purpose laptop but I would expect to see a 1050 graphics card at close to this price. I'd pay £499 for this at this price i'd carry on looking If you cant wait its a good price.

This should be fine for most of your needs then and a great price :)

I want it more for video & music work.

Thanks

I took out the old HDD just to check that the drive clone had worked, then I put it back in and formatted it to use as storage. Scavenged the screw from another old laptop but you need something like this

Thanks,did you take out the HDD,I was just watching the video above where he adds a m.2 ssd and keeps the HDD,and where did you manage to get the screw?

Yes so far so good. Went with a Samsung 250GB SSD. Very easy to install, video on YouTube is helpful. You’ll need a screw to hold it in that won’t come with the drive. Used Macrium Reflect to clone the drive. Disconnected the old HDD to check all working as it should. Then reconnected it and formatted. Boot time from cold drops from 50 secs to under 20 seconds. Pleased with that!

Yep, all installed and configured. Loads of tiny screws to get lost when you take the back off but a couple of good Aspire 5 videos on YouTube to help you there. Much better than my old laptop!