Acer Aspire Deals & Offers

Just put myself down for one. Hope it lives up to expectation! Thanks OP.

I have this machine with SSD and it is rapid for the light use I require it for. From start-up to having Chrome up and ready to go is 20 secs. I'm not sure what its like with the listed HDD but it may be worth finding one with SSD for rapid speed. Its definitely worth it.

So the one posted before with the 120 ssd is better?

Ordered thanks. Will be fine for daughter. :-)

Cant find it at all, link?

That's an idea but, frankly, I think £520 is expensive for what is basically a 2 year old model with some known issues. If it was £400 then I might take a punt on it. Thanks for suggesting it though.

Hi. You can always buy and return if it isn't for you, I'm sure Tesco do 30day returns

Keep checking Dell Outlet everyday. When u see the specs for a good price,Make use of the 15% student discount(ask a student to get code) or if u cant,get the new customer 10% discount.

Note, this has one of those weird us style enter buttons.

Acer aspire 5 and 7 series, has the same chassis and IPS display as standard. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-A515-51-50Y5-15-6-Inch-Notebook/dp/B078KG7B62/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1529267655&sr=8-6&keywords=acer+aspire+5

There seems to be a lot of conflicting information about the screens on these Acer aspire 5’s. The one everyone says is dire is the TN panel which from what I can see the mx150 variant doesn’t come with, Tesco list this as having the ips display whereas all other aspire 5’s they have doesn’t make mention of it. notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-5-A515-51G-7200U-MX150-FHD-Laptop-Review.240090.0.html As noted here the ips variant is actually decent ,if anyone actually has this model from Tesco’s it would be good to get confirmation it does actually come with that ips panel?

Good deal. Much better than the MSI someone posted last week.

Go for this or is a premium of £130 worth it for: https://www.box.co.uk/NX.GP8EK.002-Acer-Aspire-7-A715-71G-53HF_2283341.html

Depends the type of work you are going to be doing on it. Pay no attention to people saying get gaming one they are more bulky. I can see fair few people don't know anything moaning about it not being latest gen if you are going to moan then it should be that it is U version but look at the price this is good offer compared to what else is about. I would suggest staying clear of HP unless you go for the series like elitebook

This is very tempting, as I've been looking at an HP with similar price, although doesn't have the added gaming specs... I'm looking at it for coding though. Is Acer a slightly better make than HP? https://www.ebuyer.com/805720-hp-250-g6-i5-laptop-2sy46es-2sy46es-abu

FYI OP, The MX150 and 1050 are entirely different GPUs.

Not sure about a good or a bad thing, i can lower my resolution to that if I want.. It is a very bad thing.

What ever the arguments I would not buy an ACER, I bought a laptop and that went tech out of warranty priod and I have a monitor that every so often blanks out for about 2 seconds, so I would call them unreliable.

Thank you for clearing that up! Very useful :)

When you open an account with them they will do credit check and give you credit, just like applying for a credit card. You can either use the credit of the account for purchases or pay for the item straight away. So if they give you £1000 limit on the account, you purchase the laptop for £650 then you will owe VERY that amount and if you choose BNPL you have 1 year to clear the balance, after that you will start to pay interest on said balance. So you spend £650 on the laptop, by 12 of June they will credit your account with £100 and your new balance will be £550 and you have 1 year to pay it off without interest. This deal is only valid on BNPL payment.

Yeah windows updates are becoming huge.

depends, some Celeron's are actually quite usable as are some snails - I think the 32GB storage may be of more concern for me... I'd probably want 64GB as a bare minimum with Win10.

If you're on a tight budget and don't mind refurbs then this model is available from ebay Argos outlet for £123 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acer-Aspire-One-14-Inch-HD-Intel-Celeron-1-1GHz-4GB-32GB-Windows-Laptop-Blue-/362287228776

Even a snail is faster then celeron!

I googled the part number and this seems to be the standard price for this laptop.

Not available any more

Why don't they ship it with a smaller SSD (say 256GB or even 140GB) instead of a massive 1TB HDD? It wouldn't cost any more but I'm sure a lot more people would buy it. I know I would.

No ssd.......

Edge performs well with multiple tabs, just sayin

Use google chrome with multiple tabs and/or add-ons and you'll soon find out where the RAM goes.

4GB is plenty. What exactly do you plan on doing on this kind of laptop where the graphics would take up so much RAM?

4GB of RAM will not do any thing quickly, most of that will be used by the graphics

Looks alright however personally I would want an i3 over an amd chip. Not too sure on how much difference it would make but i3 gets the better write ups

Thanks for the insight, haven't bought a laptop in years so generally have no clue about them and their costs. What's your opinion on this? https://www.very.co.uk/dell-inspiron-15-5000-series-amd-a6-8gb-ram-1tb-hard-drive-dvdcd-drive-156-inch-hd-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-365-home-ndash-white/1600153255.prd

I got the same one but with a 1TB HDD for 350 and that was over a year ago

Now reduced to £102

Thanks for the reply. I will follow suit.

I installed from scratch and it automatically activated.

I've gone down the same route. Did you clone the Windows 10 installation from the eMMC or install from scratch and use the same activation code?

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/integral-120gb-p-series-5-sata-iii-2-5-ssd-drive-560mb-s.html?&wgu=711_116019_15266449814863_381155c900&wgexpiry=1534420981&source=Webgains They're all the same size SSD's. Cable was harder to find as it's proprietry.

Just 2 secs to open Chromium on a RaspberryPi in 1Gb. That's £30. I suppose if you stuck a Linux distro on this Acer then it could become useful. But you wouldn't get your Windows Tax back. Pity no government has the guts to force unbundling into the PC market to give the punter a realistic choice.

Had one and returned it. These windows tables are sloooooow. But 2GB is no where near enough for a windows tablet. Yeah you can run office, but everything struggles. Took even 10 seconds to open Chrome. In the end I got a Lenovo Miix 320 with better spec (4GB RAM / 802.11AC wifi / USB3.1 type-C etc.. none of which this has) for less money £241. example https://www.uk.insight.com/en-gb/productinfo/laptops-and-notebooks/0007117110-00000001?gclid=CjwKCAjwlcXXBRBhEiwApfHGTSF82baNfxyIOREqVR2OwcXnGcmOJC57KU9SQwR3THfSPAtlNgUVihoCe3cQAvD_BwE

Yeah a £399 laptop needs to be full HD in this day and age.

Not got an i7 octo core, ssd, full hd, finger print, gaming graphic card and a logo which resembles A bitten Apple. I thought this was the hottest day so far, seems freezing. Tbh seems good for the price. voted hot.

No SSD and 1366x768 screen and a 7th gen dual core processor (8th gen U series processors are quad core) for £400. This is not a deal.

Yeah I'd defo want SSD now. Good spec otherwise

£400 refurb no ssd lol

This might help you with that

I'm glad you have pointed that out as I was considering getting this for my son,I can't get him off his laptop at the moment

A shame indeed.

Shame about the battery life.

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