Acer Aspire Deals & Offers

Thanks for the updates. I will expire the deal due the fact that there seems to be a strong chance you may receive a different model compared to the one advertised

The French version of HUKD has a discussion thread in which they mention that the images are not accurate on close inspection - ports do not match up to the description.

Good spec. But spanish keyboard and logistics from spain will throw me off unfortunately.

Tried googling the product code but all that comes up is the other EU deal sites, one of which this deal was lifted from I’m sure. Nothing conclusive on the keyboard but would be odd for a model sold in Spanish department stores not to have a Spanish layout. Can be changed to UK but obviously stuck with the keys not being marked correctly. By the way, strange for a department store to sell a laptop without Windows?!

It looks like you've got the Spanish keyboard (lol)

A sign of the times that this is a hot deal. Just wait if you can, this laptop won't age well!

4gb ram with a HDD, this will run dog slow with more than a few browser tabs up.

just noticed bottom one has no charger - so just a guide for you to search for --- sorry as at work so shouldn't be looking at hukd lol.

Honestly look at the item posted below really is light years better. Mother in law has one similar to this with a9 and it is just painful to use.

That bottom ryzen is a million times better than this, nice find, would post that on here.

Anyone know how this would perform for football manager and sims 4?

It looks ok if you're interested and willing to accept a Chromebook over a traditional Windows machine. Personally, while I know Chromebooks are great - I wouldn't accept it as a substitute for my main work machine as there are limitations. They're more about long battery life and cloud computing over raw performance.

"I would personally avoid PC World like the Plague" said Gary Glitter.

My sister had the same problem with here Acer Aspire 3 she brought a couple of years ago. Was never right from the start, sent it back via Currys PC World and Acer said it was liquid damage (liquid had never been near it). It was only because the PC chap we use knew someone who worked for acer that it managed to get sorted. I would avoid Acer & Currys PC World based on this.

Decent spec, but let down by being an Acer. Shocking customer service when (not if) you need it. They'll excuse you of breaking your own product and sending it to them. This was back in 2008 but I've heard horror stories still like mine.

Would this be OK for an 11 year for school work? And off browsing

Both the memory and disk are apparently upgradable and for basic stuff 4GB memory / 128GB disk would be OK. It's got a full HD screen which is an essential from my point of view. However these thoughts are academic as it now seems to be out of stock

Oos anyway

I hate the fact manufacturers have been selling new laptops with 4gb of RAM. 8gb should be the minimum

Only 4gb memory..who knows if it’s upgreable? Probably fine for office work/web browsing..

OOS

Never buy from Ebay Clearance, they will not respond to any issues. Had to escalate a case of a laptop which didn't match it's description.

U need minimum 8GB anyway

Just a reminder (appreciate no time machine) that a Ryzen 5 8gb 256gb was £315 on Black Friday with eBay/ebuyer

This laptop has good reviews. Can some one point me towards a decent desktop around this price.

Freezing ❄, laptop guts in tesktop form factor, 0 possibles for future upgrade...

With any laptop you want to check the cpu benchmark score. Get the name of the cpu and add benchmark to it. Google will provide. So this laptop has a score of 2859 - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+Silver+N5000+%40+1.10GHz&id=3204 Granted you do need to have an idea what a decent score is first but anything below 4500/5000 for hundreds of quid, every users needs are different but in regards to this, best not entertaining imo. Buying a laptop is an investment and no point skimping out tbh. You are going to be using this for few years. Take the money that you'd be putting in the swear jar using a clunker and put it towards something decent. :)

I got an argos aspire 3 AMD A9 with 8gb RAM n 1tb hdd last week. Absolutely pants, am sending back. Like going back in time, really slow n poor screen. £290 on ebay site.

Hi Mate, what tells you from that screen the CPU is rubbish? I bought an Acer before and it was rubbish and I want to avoid making the same mistake again. Thanks

exactly this, a few weeks ago similar spec laptops fitted with ryzens were standard on the argos website. Would estimate those ryzens about 5x the speed of these dreadful cpus.

Horrible CPU on this....for buying a laptop in 2020 or even last year for that matter, don't even think about buying it - https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+Silver+N5000+%40+1.10GHz&id=3204 Always check your CPU score!!!

They try to maximise profit by giving us dated junk.

Bloody hell, 2020 and laptops are still being released with 1366x768 panels yet 1080p monitors can be had for less than £60. Looks like another laptop that’s being made just to shift old hardware inventory.

Considering how much Americans get with those Motile laptops for $300 (ok ok, plus tax), every laptop deal in this country looks garbage in comparison.

These non full hd screens let it down. Ssd should be standard today.

Hmmm not full HD and no SSD, I think that lets this down somewhat for £499 - I think i'd probably rather get a Lenovo with both of those from e buyer for £399 (QuickFind: 914238) , although it has an older generation CPU not that it makes a big difference.

The Aspire 5 is one of the easiest to upgrade. Check out my previous post. 4GB is around £16.

Very cold! 🥶

It’s a deals site where people vote hot or cold using judgement based on spec. When the op is not upfront about key spec that let’s it down, people will vote hot which in turn misleads others who are trusting in the votes that it’s good value for money and as a result end up buying. In 2020 I ld not touch a 4 RAM laptop no matter what processor it is as it will bottle neck, equally there are cheaper machines and still have SSD a much faster and more reliable storage, no excuse why a 400 quid machine doesn’t have it.

Is ram upgradeable? And it sbould have one M.2 and one ssd slot too?

optane helps a bit, but even the cheapest ssd is still many times faster

I would rather buy something used in this price range from ITzoo dell outlet.

It’s Vega integrated. This isn’t a big surprise to anyone who follows Ryzen Mobile. Though reviews show the Ryzen 5 3500U barely behind the Ryzen 7 3700U as both end up thermally and power constrained so while you think it’d be much quicker it just isn’t. I’d buy a Ryzen 5 and save a lot in the process personally as this is quite a lot of money for a mid-range machine.

From reading the Q&A bit, it looks as though the graphics isn’t a dedicated card, but integrated chipset. So not as good as the description.

I have the Ryzen 5 model and it's real good.

Thanks @Tomasz_DrozdowskizVb To be fair, I've seen more detailed descriptions, so I've added a bit of meat to the bare bones :)

I want somthing hard wearing as i use it a lot but as future proof as I can but a good screen as i watch films on it often.

It depends on what you're going to use it for really. I don't think this version of Aspire 5 has an IPS. It's best to call them to find out.

Would people go for this acer or this leneovo https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/ideapad/500-series/Ideapad-530S-15-Intel/p/81EV006YUK ot the £699 one of these? https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/ideapad/s-series/Lenovo-IdeaPad-S540-15IWL/p/88IPS501191

For this price range is this a good laptop to get?

The Acer site says this about the screen: 'The narrow, 7.82mm1 bezel design offers more space for amazing images. With a 15.6” FHD IPS display and Acer Color Intelligence™1 crisp, true-to-life colours come alive. Adjust gamma and saturation in real-time, optimising screen colour and brightness without clipping'.

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If it comes under 300£ it will be much better than intel with all their security problems (y) 🏻

Decent price but rather have quarter of the storage in SSD, it would have made it a better deal IMO. If you can sell the HD and replace it with an SSD you'll probably get a good laptop for the price. I personally do not want a laptop without SSD.

As the poster above says, not quite the deal it should be. It'll be decent, it'll game. But that HDD needs replacing. Imho at the moment this is probably one of the best laptop you can get at this price from a large reseller. But it should be £299 and I'd replace that HDD with an SSD. Edit: Also, can anyone comment on the driver situation for 2xxx series Ryzens? I heard that AMD had not updated them for ages.

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Got a 128GB western digital green M.2 SSD off Amazon for £18. Recommended this laptop to my sister in law and will install that in it for her. Good spec for the price!

5400rpm hdd. Thats about the only thing you need to read, this will feel terrible to use. Good news is £25 will buy you a 250gb ssd and £5 will get you a usb enclosure for the old drive to use as external storage.

Interestingly the Intel variant is the same price at Argos. The disadvantage is the slower processor but a crucial advantage over this is that is ships with 8gb ram and that could be a key differentiator for new designers on a budget or those who are tab fiends on Chrome etc.

Ok, thanks. I was looking at sizes. They are huge. Anyway, will see how I get on. Thanks again

I use a noctua u9s on mine which is cheap but effective but I'm not sure if it would fit in this case. I do use mine for gaming. For regular daily tasks I don't think u need to worry

Thanks. Do you have a recommendation? And do you think it needs replacing for normal use - not high-intensive work or overclocking or anything?

Anyone that bought this needs to look into replacing the cooler as the intel one is useless for i7's

Hmmm out of stock, looks like @furq might have got the last one in stock!

Not sure why this is being upvoted, the SSD is tiny and the only redeeming feature is the dedicated graphics card but even that is still poor

Meh. £400 for the Ryzen 5 edition in December. That should be standard price. Where are those?

Ended up ordering this, thanks!

Ermmmmmm

Probs much the same as this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4094342 albeit quoting a different catalogue number Even this has Windows 10 will be Acer OEM

Doesn’t mention anything about a Operating System The image shows the monitor shows win10 Anyone know what or if OS this will have

Not even an SSD. Better off buying an iPad or something for what this pc can do.

can you play games on this laptop? my laptop of 10 years is dying now..... sucks. needs to get replaced

Jury still out on the display type, I will update when CS comes back to me.

I don't think this version has an IPS screen, better to check with them first.

Pity Spoils a good deal

Yes it has IPS display according to the description The narrow, 7.82mm1 bezel design offers more space for amazing images. With a 15.6” FHD IPS display and Acer Color Intelligence™1 crisp, true-to-life colours come alive. Adjust gamma and saturation in real-time, optimising screen colour and brightness without clipping.

Can you post the direct link I can’t find this on their site

It would be easier if they ****ing said where it’s located rather than have us typing in postcodes!

This should be £299. Currys markup as usual. This and the other recent deals are clearly their middling meh low-mid tier laptops they’re trying to get rid of before next gen pops in. This is not the sku people should buy unless needs are basic, but I would choose this before any HP or Lenovo at the same pri Ryzen 5 model needs to come back in stock at £349.

Just follow this guide on how to upgrade RAM for the Ryzen 5 version, they have the same chassis. This is the 16GB RAM kit. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-CT8G4SFS8266-PC4-21300-Single-260-Pin/dp/B071KP8CGG/ref=sr_1_19?crid=1KW3GA6PYJ1AN&keywords=crucial+16gb+ddr4-2400+sodimm&qid=1574252658&sprefix=Cruc,aps,265&sr=8-19&th=1&tag=hupeuk-21

Me neither. How can i get it up to 16gb? In stock near me :/

The lenovo 340 ryzen 3 with ssd fhd was £269 black friday

Damn, sorry @Masteryates you may take your heat back :D

Found this spec sheet https://proviyo.co.uk/reviews.php?q=2207894-4710180331905-Acer-Aspire-3-15.6-Inch-Ryzen-3-4GB-1TB-FHD-Laptop---Black looks like it isn't IPS as I'm sure that's a feature they would have mentioned,shame

If it's IPS, its hot from me.

IPS I think master who Yates