Acer Aspire 5738Z Laptop from Ebuyer, £359.97 delivered to Ireland

Kotek Besar

Acer Aspire 5738Z Laptop, Pentium Dual Core T4200 2.0GHz, 160GB HDD, 3GB RAM, 15.6" TFT, DVD±RW, Vista Home Premium (Upgradeable to Windows 7)



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Click on the link below to find out more about Windows 7 upgrades
http://www.acer.com/windows7upgrade/

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Processor

* Intel Pentium Dual Core T4200 2.0GHz
* 1MB L2 Cache
* 800MHz FSB

Memory

* 3GB DDR RAM
* Configuration: 1 x 2GB + 1 x 1GB
* 2 x RAM Slot

Hard Drive

* 160GB SATA

Optical Drive

* 8x DVD-RW

Software

* Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
* Acer Arcade™ Deluxe featuring Cinema, Album, Music, Acer HomeMedia, Online Media
* Acer Backup Manager
* Acer eRecovery Manager
* Acer PowerSmart Manager
* Acer GridVista™
* Acer GameZone
* Acer Game Console
* Adobe® Reader®
* Adobe Flash® Player
* Google Toolbar™
* Google Desktop™
* McAfee® Internet Security Suite
* NTI Media Maker™
* Microsoft® Works with Office Home and Student 2007 Trial (Service Pack 1)

Display

* 15.6" Acer CineCrystal™ LED LCD
* 1366 x 768 pixel resolution

Graphics

* Shared Graphics

Audio

* Optimized 3rd Generation Dolby Home Theater® audio enhancement,
* Dolby® Digital Live,
* Dolby® Pro Logic® IIx,
* Dolby® Headphone,
* Dolby® Natural Bass,
* Dolby® Sound Space Expander,
* Dolby® Audio Optimization,
* Dolby® High Frequency Enhancer technologies
* Dolby®-optimized surround sound system with two built-in stereo speakers

Input Devices

* Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device, supporting:
* Circular-motion scrolling
* Pinch-action zoom
* Page flip

Networking

* Wireless 802.11b/g/Draft-N

Power Supply

* 6 Cell 2.2 Battery
* Runtime Up to 3.5 hours

Dimensions

* 383 (W) mm
* 250 (D) mm
* 26/37 (H) mm
* Weight 2.8kg

Interfaces

* 4 x USB
* 5 in 1-Build in Card Reader

Warranty/Miscellaneous

* One Year Manufacturer Warranty



£499.99inc vat
At checkout, enter JAR684M77 in promo code box for £150 off.
Total including shipping to Ireland, £359.97.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167396

Reesy

Seems like a real bargain from ebuyer, no?

Kotek Besar

Reesy wrote: »

This http://forums.ebuyer.com/showthread.php?t=51112 thread suggests that John Lewis are offering it cheaper

http://forums.ebuyer.com/showthread.php?t=51112 wrote:

John Lewis is selling this product for £369

The Ebuyer price is £349, with the voucher code.

EDIT: lol

Reesy

Seems they won't allow a non-UK delivery / billing address.

Huh.

The_Conductor

Nice find.
I'm guessing a trip to Belfast is on the cards for a few folk here......

Kotek Besar

Reesy wrote: »

Seems they won't allow a non-UK delivery / billing address.

Huh.

Are you sure? They definitely deliver to Ireland. If their own checkout is playing up, try Google checkout.

The_Conductor

Anyone know what the integrated graphics (Intel GL20) on this is like? Are we talking GT9100 territory- or a more modern equivalent?

Rsaeire

smccarrick wrote: »

Anyone know what the integrated graphics (Intel GL20) on this is like? Are we talking GT9100 territory- or a more modern equivalent?

The Acer has the same graphics capabilities as the Dell Studio that was on Bargain Alerts recently, GMA 4500MHD/Intel GL40, and is less powerful than the Geforce 9400M, however, does support full hardware acceleration of all HD video codecs, i.e. MPEG-2, VC-1 and AVC/H.264.

The_Conductor

£350 delivered.........
Me very tempted.
I don't need another machine though :P

Rsaeire

smccarrick wrote: »

£350 delivered.........
Me very tempted.
I don't need another machine though :P

I know how you feel. Between this and the Dell Studio with the i7 CPU for €600 the other day, I am struggling to stop ordering them all; even though I have plenty of computers.

Reesy

benifa wrote: »

Are you sure? They definitely deliver to Ireland. If their own checkout is playing up, try Google checkout.

Thanks. It wouldn't let me set up an account online with an Irish address, you could only choose UK as country. Just got thru to them on the phone & placed my (as yet unconfirmed) order.

Fingers crossed.

EDIT: 6 hours later the order is confirmed & I'm told it has been shipped. NB I've just tried to get the free WIN 7 upgrade & been informed that there is a EUR14.90 delivery charge. How come it costs EUR 10 to ship me the laptop and EUR 14.90 to ship a couple of DVDs? Free upgrade my ar$e.

ShayC

Hi,

Does this have a built in camera?

thanks

machalla

Reesy wrote: »

Thanks. It wouldn't let me set up an account online with an Irish address, you could only choose UK as country. Just got thru to them on the phone & placed my (as yet unconfirmed) order.

Fingers crossed.

EDIT: 6 hours later the order is confirmed & I'm told it has been shipped. NB /QUOTE]

I think you need to use the setting REP 123 as the postcode for Ebuyer. Use a mobile number to enter the address as Irish landlines seem to be disallowed but Irish mobile numbers seem to go in ok.

Overall I found their delivery times superb, their support was so so as they kept insisting on you ringing their support to finalise things. Nice prices from them in general though.

Reesy

Updates:
1) It's now ten quid cheaper http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167396
2) Mine ordered on Monday, promised today, just arrived.
3) The 'free' Win 7 upgrade costs fifteen euro in delivery charges. Huh!

Now I open the box...

Simon

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So very very tempted!

iggy

Very tempted for this..

Cant decide on this or the NC140...


(Have to put my credit card away)

Bulmers

been looking for a new laptop for the house, not very well up on specs but from the tone of the thread, it seems to me this is a good deal and a decent laptop, would i be correct in this assumption?

cheers

The_Conductor

Bulmers wrote: »

been looking for a new laptop for the house, not very well up on specs but from the tone of the thread, it seems to me this is a good deal and a decent laptop, would i be correct in this assumption?

cheers

Bit underpowered, but by god its cheap......?

ShayC

Is this the same one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Pentium-Premium/dp/B002IVTTKQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1256030815&sr=1-3

The_Conductor

ShayC wrote: »

Is this the same one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-15-6-inch-Pentium-Premium/dp/B002IVTTKQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1256030815&sr=1-3

Yes.

BrendanD

just bought one of these , if ordering online use postal code REP123 and pay with paypal

TelePaul

Forgive my general ignorance but is this just a particularly high-specd machine for the money? Last time I looked Acer had a dodgy rep (though this was probably down to the fact the kept popping up in Lidl).

My dell looks set to give up the ghost any day now so I'm keeping my eyes open for a replacement.

podgeandrodge

also at laptopsdirect for €382

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/Acer_Aspire_5738Z_Laptop__LX.PAQ0X.003/version.asp

this model seems to have been out since November 2007 according to the comments at the bottom of the webpage - is Pentium T4200 Dual-Core that old already?

The_Conductor

podgeandrodge wrote: »

is Pentium T4200 Dual-Core that old already?

Very much so- its at least 2 generations old......

Reesy

Latest on this: mine's going back for repair because the DVD/CD drive doesn't work. Huh!

Reesy

Final (I hope) update on this: Acer's customer care is as bad as their product quality: After many hours on the phone to them, they've still not got round to collecting it for repair.

_Do not buy this item!_

mckildare

Anyone else as unfortunate as Reesy?

Was looking at this all day today and had heard about the poor build quality of Acer machines....

johnnyboy08

mckildare wrote: »

Anyone else as unfortunate as Reesy?

Was looking at this all day today and had heard about the poor build quality of Acer machines....

Picked up one of these for the olds and am pretty impressed by it to be honest. For the money it's pretty good value.

Thanks to Ressy, the very first thing I tried out was the cd/dvd drive and it was grand. I've been able to watch DVDs, play/burn/rip CDs so far.

I have noticed though that it's not picking up an 8GB flash drive I have on any of the usb ports. It does pick up a 500gb external hdd though so I'm thinking it just needs a driver update or something's up with Vista. I'll try it again once the Windows 7 upgrade arrives from Acer (14.90 p&p).

Overall though, very impressed so far and would look at getting an Acer for myself, like this one perhaps which is now 399 sterling:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055742076

The_Conductor

johnnyboy08 wrote: »

I have noticed though that it's not picking up an 8GB flash drive I have on any of the usb ports. It does pick up a 500gb external hdd though so I'm thinking it just needs a driver update or something's up with Vista. I'll try it again once the Windows 7 upgrade arrives from Acer (14.90 p&p).

Not all USB ports are 'powered' ports (which is why a device which has its own power source works). There is no driver difference between Vista and Windows 7 for removable devices. Feel free to do some experimentation with other devices- but it sounds like the ports are underpowered.

Something to try- test the pendrive with the laptop plugged in- and then test it with the laptop on battery power.

You can modify the power settings for the laptop in Vista to lengthen the battery life- its possible that some of the Acer software may have something to do with this too......

Watchman99

:mad: Guys, buying on ebuyer is proving to be a disaster.

Can't register an Irish address ast all, even using ROI123 as a postal code & the google checkout thingy isn't placing the orders with ebuyer.

Seems you can't really order to Ireland.

machalla

Watchman99 wrote: »

:mad: Guys, buying on ebuyer is proving to be a disaster.

Can't register an Irish address ast all, even using ROI123 as a postal code & the google checkout thingy isn't placing the orders with ebuyer.

Seems you can't really order to Ireland.

REP 123 should work (well it has for me).

I used Google checkout successfully with them before as well. They do Paypal as well which seems to be working also.

I'm waiting my 3rd order to be delivered from them at the moment. Ordered tuesday should be here today or tommorow. Try their enotes system for some help if the order won't go through or ring them failing that.

Watchman99

machalla wrote: »

REP 123 should work (well it has for me).

I used Google checkout successfully with them before as well. They do Paypal as well which seems to be working also.

I'm waiting my 3rd order to be delivered from them at the moment. Ordered tuesday should be here today or tommorow. Try their enotes system for some help if the order won't go through or ring them failing that.

Thanks - I was actually usiny ROI 123 as the post code. That is what ebuyer themselves recommended.

REP 123 works a treat.

machalla

Glad to hear it was just that. Best of luck with it.

My order turned up this afternoon so I can't fault their delivery. Always very zippy.

johnnyboy08

johnnyboy08 wrote: »

Picked up one of these for the olds and am pretty impressed by it to be honest. For the money it's pretty good value.

Thanks to Ressy, the very first thing I tried out was the cd/dvd drive and it was grand. I've been able to watch DVDs, play/burn/rip CDs so far.

I have noticed though that it's not picking up an 8GB flash drive I have on any of the usb ports. It does pick up a 500gb external hdd though so I'm thinking it just needs a driver update or something's up with Vista. I'll try it again once the Windows 7 upgrade arrives from Acer (14.90 p&p).

Overall though, very impressed so far and would look at getting an Acer for myself, like this one perhaps which is now 399 sterling:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055742076

Just an update on this ... upgraded to Windows 7 last night with the upgrade kit from Acer and it worked a real treat. Windows 7 looks the business and is very responsive.

I still had the problem with the 8GB flash drive where the laptop was picking it up as a Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader so here's how to fix it if anyone else comes across it:
1. plug the flash drive into one of the USB ports
2. go into Device Manager -> Universal Serial Bus controllers
3. Uninstall the driver for Realtek USB 2.0 Card Reader
4. plug out and plug back in the flash drive and the laptop will pick it up correctly as a USB Mass Storage device

Regarding Acer's support, I've dealt with them on several occasions. It used to be ok as our supplier was an authorised service agent but now we have to send any faulty laptops back to Acer themselves. They get returned to a service centre in Banbridge, Co. Down and they're *very* slow. On one occasion it took them a month to replace a bad LCD cable! :eek:

I have an Acer myself though, an Aspire 7730, and I can't complain about the build quality. One of the best laptops I've ever had, I just hope it keeps working for me as I don't fancy having to deal with Banbridge again.

RasTa

Is there a HDMI slot on this? Looking at the specs but can't find anything on what connections it can take

johnnyboy08

RasTa wrote: »

Is there a HDMI slot on this? Looking at the specs but can't find anything on what connections it can take

Yep, there's HDMI out. There's also an integrated webcam which isn't mentioned in the specs.

I'm working on one of these laptops right now actually! Except the one I have here is a T4300 processor. Yeah it does have HDMI and a webcam.

Reesy

Hi,

Just to close off on my 'Acer support won't fix my faulty laptop' story, I finally got a refund from Ebuyer last week. The refund didn't cover the shipping and I still have a EUR 15 Vista-to-WIN 7 upgrade DVD.

Having experienced such incompetence and unprofessionalism from Acer, I'm unlikely to buy anything from them again. I would, however, use Ebuyer again.