Acer 5536 4GB Laptop - PC World - €450

rcs

Link Here

Key Features:- AMD Athlon processor QL-64 - (2.1Ghz, 1MB Cache) mhz Processor speed
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
- 4GB Memory
- 320 GB Hard Drive
- Webcam
- Dolby Sound Room
- Bluetooth
- Up to 3 hours battery life

Drawbacks:
No dedicated Graphics card
No PCMCIA Slot
No TV Out (Don't know why it wouldn't have this!)

Also it comes with a free upgrade to Windows 7...

Reduced from €599 to €450 down south... £529 to £379 up north

What do ye think.......?

cronos

PC World BARGIN ???

Go to the dell.ie outlet. Google it.

rcs

Don't know about that... had a look on the outlet store & anything with a similar spec there is a lot more expensive...

Also if you customize a Dell to a similar spec on the regular site it's WAY more expensive...

donmeister

cronos wrote: »

PC World BARGIN ???

Go to the dell.ie outlet. Google it.

Spelling Test FAIL


Seems like a good BA + the windows 7 upgrade!

Rsaeire

This isn't as bad a buy as you may first think, since it has a VGA and HDMI output and its ATI Radeon HD 3200 supports all HD video codecs, i.e. VC1, AVC/H.264 and MPEG-2. Further details of the configuration can be found here.

cahirhennessy

donmeister wrote: »

Spelling Test FAIL


Seems like a good BA + the windows 7 upgrade!

Muppet. Did I spell that ok?

Ruu_Old

cahirhennessy wrote: »

Muppet. Did I spell that ok?

Banned for a week, be civil in the future.

consultech

This deal is meh, ok I suppose, but on the whole; meh. The processor is a bit light for my liking.

Not sure if I'd go with an Acer again: I have the 6935G (with T9400 2.54GHz) and have also had rakes of video driver related problems with it. Basically my screen only works 1 time in 10, and I have to hook it up to my TV via HDMI those other 9 times (which I kinda do anyway, but that's beside the point)

Slippin Jimmy

They'll try push the extra's on you to make up their margin like coverplan, DO NOT go for this as it is a complete **** up. It is not worth it at all no matter what they say. If you want anti-virus get Kaspersky, it's a lot cheaper and it's better than Norton!

TPD

Or get Avast, it's free, and pretty good.

Ghost Train

seems ok price for the spec, a competitive offer

adidasxape

price is gone up to €479.99 in PC World today.

brosna

At the risk of being shot, I will mention that Tesco have an Acer 5230 (don't have exact specs) which is a good basic use laptop for somebody who wants to get on the internet and use it for other light use. Price €299

The also have another Acer (don't know model) for €349

cronos

donmeister wrote: »

Spelling Test FAIL


Seems like a good BA + the windows 7 upgrade!

As long as its not an epic fail I'm ok with it. lol

The_Conductor

rcs wrote: »

Link Here

Key Features:- AMD Athlon processor QL-64 - (2.1Ghz, 1MB Cache) mhz Processor speed
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
- 4GB Memory
- 320 GB Hard Drive
- Webcam
- Dolby Sound Room
- Bluetooth
- Up to 3 hours battery life

Fair enough- and its nice to see it coming with 4Gb RAM as standard. Apparently it supports up to 8Gb RAM in its two sockets. I'd have heart failure if I were to check the price of 4Gb modules though.

Its also Wireless N and Gigabit LAN by the way.......

rcs wrote: »

Drawbacks:
No dedicated Graphics card
No PCMCIA Slot
No TV Out (Don't know why it wouldn't have this!)

It has a 512Mb Radeon HD3200 (you can dedicate up to 2Gb of RAM to video if you want)- so dedicated graphics doesn't really enter the equation. Its a decent enough chip for a laptop- a bit dated, but very capable.
No laptop has had a PCMCIA slot in several years. PCMCIA was replaced with 'Express Card Slots'- of which this has one.
Re: no TV out- ditto- no-one uses TV-out anymore, its obsolete- the standard is HDMI instead- of which this has a HDMI port......

The reason it doesn't have the 3 items above- is they have all been superceded, this laptop has newer technology.

rcs wrote: »

Also it comes with a free upgrade to Windows 7...

EUR22 for shipping- and you can only get the reciprochal version of Windows 7. Given that Microsoft are giving away thousands of copies of Windows Ultimate in Ireland (its giving them remarkable good will), I'd be more inclined to try to get a copy of Ultimate (the processor is VTx capable).

rcs wrote: »

Reduced from €599 to €450 down south... £529 to £379 up north

What do ye think.......?

The processor is a bit crap- but as a package the laptop really is remarkable value. I would seriously advise uninstalling the majority of the crapware it ships with though- the Acer 'freebie' software slows down any machine considerably.

Darksaga87

Duffff-Man wrote: »

They'll try push the extra's on you to make up their margin like coverplan, DO NOT go for this as it is a complete **** up. It is not worth it at all no matter what they say.

I find it to be a very handy service, got a new laptop out of it a while back!

Reesy

smccarrick wrote: »

...and you can only get the reciprochal version of Windows 7. Given that Microsoft are giving away thousands of copies of Windows Ultimate in Ireland (its giving them remarkable good will), I'd be more inclined to try to get a copy of Ultimate (the processor is VTx capable)...

Sorry, what does 'reciprocal' mean in this context? And are there any other places where Win 7 Ultimate is being given away apart from the DIT launch?

The_Conductor

Reesy wrote: »

Sorry, what does 'reciprocal' mean in this context? And are there any other places where Win 7 Ultimate is being given away apart from the DIT launch?

It means- if you have 32 bit Home Premium on the laptop- you can only get the 32 bit Home version of Windows 7 as an upgrade- not the 64bit, or Professional, or Ultimate (or any of the other flavours).

There were thousands of copies given out by MS to Irish consumers, students and IT professionals thus far- totally aside from the DIT launch next week. They've given out thousands of free copies.

stek

bought one of these laptops last week, €479. runs very well and has good hardy feel to it.
one thing- the cooling fan seems to be running non stop! it can be a little noisy when trying to concentrate...

DanJ

How does this compare to the DELL Inspiron 15 for €399 - see basic spec below.

Inspiron 15
- Intel® Celeron Dual Core T3000 (1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache)
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 (64 BIT) - English
- 15.6" Widescreen WXGA CCFL (1366 x 768) TFT Display with TrueLife™
- 3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024]
- 160GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
- DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD)

Would this processor at €45 extra be better?
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T4300 (2.1GHz, 800MHz, 1MB cache)

Kayleighbaby

Does anybody no how to turn n wireless conection on these 5535 laptops ???

Slippin Jimmy

Kayleighbaby wrote: »

Does anybody no how to turn n wireless conection on these 5535 laptops ???

There should be a control to do it where the numbers are above the letters, or else there is a button on the front of the machine.

dazzday

DanJ wrote: »

How does this compare to the DELL Inspiron 15 for €399 - see basic spec below.

Inspiron 15
- Intel® Celeron Dual Core T3000 (1.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1 MB L2 Cache)
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 (64 BIT) - English
- 15.6" Widescreen WXGA CCFL (1366 x 768) TFT Display with TrueLife™
- 3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024]
- 160GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive
- DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD)

Would this processor at €45 extra be better?
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T4300 (2.1GHz, 800MHz, 1MB cache)

Acer tops it:

+ Larger HDD
+ More RAM
+ Webcam
+ HDMI (really is becoming a more and more necessary selling point)

gip

EUR22 for shipping- and you can only get the reciprochal version of Windows 7. Given that Microsoft are giving away thousands of copies of Windows Ultimate in Ireland (its giving them remarkable good will)

Could you please explain?? I have laptop running on Vista which is an absolute nightmare and want to install Windows 7

Alanstrainor

This thread is a year old...

FredTroll

jor el

dazzday wrote: »

Acer tops it:

+ Larger HDD
+ More RAM
+ Webcam
+ HDMI (really is becoming a more and more necessary selling point)

It's a year old, ffs.