lidl laptop - NOT a Bargain

TooOldBoots

Lidl must take people for right mugs



https://www.lidl.ie/en/special-offers.htm?articleId=10761 €250


https://www.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/ideapad/100-series-/Ideapad-120S-14-Intel/p/81A5002WUK?cid=ie:sem|se|google|pla €200

Creamy Goodness

Bout one for everyone in the family, should stop the family tech support.

Bought 5.

(This thread fails the very concept of this forum :rolleyes:)

rom

Looking forward to the next non bargin alert.

Turnipman

I note that the Lenovo warranty is "One year Depot or Carry-in for 1 year" whereas, I have the impression that Lidl normally guarantee items that they sell for 3 years - so perhaps the extra €50 is to pay for an extended warranty!

somebody_else

Turnipman wrote: »

I note that the Lenovo warranty is "One year Depot or Carry-in for 1 year" whereas, I have the impression that Lidl normally guarantee items that they sell for 3 years - so perhaps the extra €50 is to pay for an extended warranty!

Nope.
On lidl page it says 1 year warranty as well.

Tom

edited:
even better on Lenovo page - if you add three year on site warranty it cost €261.49 with shipping.

So for 11.49 more you have two more year warranty on site (it means engineer will come to your place to fix it).

GBX

For most part people criticise when its something posted is not a bargain, but to be fair to the OP he did post an alternative which would constitute a bargain price compared to Lidl.

errlloyd

I think the lesson learned here is that Lidl tech isn't always very cheap. Just because it's in Lidl and low spec doesn't make it a bargain.

Creamy Goodness

GBX wrote: »

For most part people criticise when its something posted is not a bargain, but to be fair to the OP he did post an alternative which would constitute a bargain price compared to Lidl.

The thread title specifically mentions NOT a bargain

GBX

Indeed - but where else should the poster put it?
Consumer issues? usually used for complaints/issues after a purchase.
Bargain requests? Doesnt fit in there either..

Creamy Goodness

GBX wrote: »

Indeed - but where else should the poster put it?
Consumer issues? usually used for complaints/issues after a purchase.
Bargain requests? Doesnt fit in there either..

post the lenovo link as a bargain? as someone mentioned it's cheaper than the Lidl price. this just seems like throwing the prams out at Lidl for no reason.

Turnipman

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

...this just seems like throwing the prams out at Lidl for no reason.

I'm pretty sure that I can see a reason!

And I bet that if you think about it for a moment, you will too!

KevRossi

It's €290 in DiD, so a good price compared to them

The €199.00 is online, direct from LeNovo. No idea what P&P costs.

I don't see the grounds for critiscism, it's not as if Lidl claims to be the cheapest in Ireland at it.


https://www.did.ie/lenovo-ideapad-120s-14iap-intel-celeron-n3350-4gb-64gb-emmc-laptop-81a5002wuk-81a5002wuk-prd

cronos

GBX wrote: »

Indeed - but where else should the poster put it?
Consumer issues? usually used for complaints/issues after a purchase.
Bargain requests? Doesnt fit in there either..

Nowhere

degsie

Best non-bargain thread yet! Thanks OP.

evolving_doors

Dunno why knickers are in a twist.
The guy found a bargain that beat Lidl.
Change thread title maybe. Either way no big deal.

Thanks op

tfitzgerald

Thanks to the op. Anytime I save 50 euro I consider that a bargain

bagels

Thank you OP. I'm grateful for any bargain alert that saves people money.

duridian

I think the OP did the right thing in pointing out that LIDL laptop isn’t a good deal.
TBH I’d advise anyone thinking of purchasing any laptop with a “N” processor to avoid them completely and buy a slightly older i3 based laptop, with CPU such as 5005u or 6006u which can often be found selling as refurbished in nearly new condition for €250~ 300, and will give much better performance.

rubadub

GBX wrote: »

Indeed - but where else should the poster put it?
Consumer issues? usually used for complaints/issues after a purchase.
Bargain requests? Doesnt fit in there either..

rip off ireland is the usual place people put expensive items, treating it like a "expensive item alert" (which drives me mad, as usually it is of no help to anybody).

This thread is a good warning, as he did post an alternative. Many are clueless as to the price of laptops, they might have to get one for a child in school and just figure "well lidl are always cheap, so it is likely a reasonable price". I bet they will shift lots of them.

TooOldBoots

KevRossi wrote: »

It's €290 in DiD, so a good price compared to them

The €199.00 is online, direct from LeNovo. No idea what P&P costs.

I don't see the grounds for critiscism, it's not as if Lidl claims to be the cheapest in Ireland at it.


https://www.did.ie/lenovo-ideapad-120s-14iap-intel-celeron-n3350-4gb-64gb-emmc-laptop-81a5002wuk-81a5002wuk-prd

cronos wrote: »

Nowhere

Jezz some folks.....
Where should I have put the thread? in some obscure one that nobody reads or follows?



Anyways lidl did splash the laptop all over the weekly pamphlet and on signs everywhere and its one of their weekly specials aka a bargain for returning to school/college.

They are not stupid and were out to catch the unsuspecting buyer who would think lidl = cheap which clearly is not the case.
Its a nasty trick to play on family's.


The lenovo price :- its €200 including postage from lenovo Ireland online
https://www.lenovo.com/ie/en/laptops/ideapad/100-series-/Ideapad-120S-14-Intel/p/81A5002WUK?cid=ie:sem|se|google|pla

TheMilkyPirate

That Lenovo link says starting at 249.99 for me?

ED E

This "Laptop" is like a €50 car, not a good idea.

TerrorFirmer

They are not stupid and were out to catch the unsuspecting buyer who would think lidl = cheap which clearly is not the case.
Its a nasty trick to play on family's.

Honestly, you need to get a bit of a grip on the hysteria.

The laptop is almost €300 in a lot of brick and mortar stores so €249 with an in-store warranty from Lidl is a decent price.

It was €199 on sale on the Lenovo website earlier, it's now back to €249, same as Lidl.

It's not the worlds fastest laptop but it would be OK for office/light browsing.

sy

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

............
It was €199 on sale on the Lenovo website earlier, it's now back to €249, same as Lidl.
..................

I think Lenovo Ireland was on to this thread, or Lidl rang them

bk

LOL, the price has gone up to €250 on the Lenovo site now, it was €200 earlier today, well done lads :rolleyes:

In fairness, €250 is a pretty decent price for bricks and mortar, versus online and Lidl returns policy is pretty excellent, just bring it back if you don't like it and they generally refund you no questions asked.

Oasis1974

My mobile phone has more grunt than that potato. And I'm assuming an engineer in his Ford Cortina will walk into my house and catch his flares on the door with his screwdriver to fix it. Ah lads talk about scraping the barrel.....

lighthouse

You can buy it this Saturday in Lidl for €200

long_b

Lidl page is 404 ing now

lighthouse

Here it is
There she goes
https://www.lidl.ie/en/special-offers.htm?articleId=12157

sydthebeat

Only a bargain it is a 128 or 256 emmc hard drive...

If its 64 its the current market price.

If its the 32 its over priced

lighthouse

It's 64Gb. Yea might be the current market price but it was for sale for 250e only a few months ago.
Sounds like a good deal to me.

sydthebeat

lighthouse wrote: »

It's 64Gb. Yea might be the current market price but it was for sale for 250e only a few months ago.
Sounds like a good deal to me.

Your right actualy.

Just checked did where its 290 and currys where its 270

I ordered one last week from laptops direct for 200 + delivery

lighthouse

I'm just assuming it's 64Gb as that's what I seemed to see for this model online.
I rang Lidl customer support just now to check. Your man didn't know but he said he will check and get back to me.

Jlayay

Rubbish laptop. You'd get similar performance purchasing a netbook from 10 years ago. Would have to pay me to take it.

sydthebeat

Jlayay wrote: »

Rubbish laptop. You'd get similar performance purchasing a netbook from 10 years ago. Would have to pay me to take it.

at that price range, and for those specs, its actually pretty good value.

obviously its not a flagship piece of machinery, but absolutely grand for light student usage such as word processing and some excel and publisher.

lighthouse

sydthebeat wrote: »

Jlayay wrote: »

Rubbish laptop. You'd get similar performance purchasing a netbook from 10 years ago. Would have to pay me to take it.

at that price range, and for those specs, its actually pretty good value.

obviously its not a flagship piece of machinery, but absolutely grand for light student usage such as word processing and some excel and publisher.

Yea I'm with you on this. For 200 yo yos it's a steal. Sure ya wouldn't have much change out of that on a night out.

lighthouse

For anyone that's interested this laptop has 64gb of emmc memory.
It runs windows 10s which is the main reason I didn't buy it. This means that you can only download programs from the app store.
I was in my local store this morning and saw this on the box.

TooOldBoots

Rubbish laptop, operating system is rubbish. You'd be far better off buying a good Chromebook for the same money. They are higher spec and have better software

beauf

lighthouse wrote: »

For anyone that's interested this laptop has 64gb of emmc memory.
It runs windows 10s which is the main reason I didn't buy it. This means that you can only download programs from the app store.
I was in my local store this morning and saw this on the box.

Are you sure its 10s? I never seen a review of this laptop running anything other than Full Windows 10

Edit - On PC World its listed as Windows 10s alright. Pity makes it less a deal.

beauf

TooOldBoots wrote: »

Rubbish laptop, operating system is rubbish. You'd be far better off buying a good Chromebook for the same money. They are higher spec and have better software

Unless you need some specific windows applications.

beauf

Jlayay wrote: »

Rubbish laptop. You'd get similar performance purchasing a netbook from 10 years ago. Would have to pay me to take it.

I don't agree. This one has hardware decoding for movies and USB3, USBC WIFI N, huge battery life. Performance is like a decent Core2Duo in a full sized laptop. But thats good enough for office tasks or carrying around.

The main drawback is that it has a low end screen which is dim in bright light, like outdoors. Its also not upgradable. And the CPU isn't going to do any heavy duty tasks.

lighthouse

beauf wrote: »

lighthouse wrote: »

For anyone that's interested this laptop has 64gb of emmc memory.
It runs windows 10s which is the main reason I didn't buy it. This means that you can only download programs from the app store.
I was in my local store this morning and saw this on the box.

Are you sure its 10s? I never seen a review of this laptop running anything other than Full Windows 10

Edit - On PC World its listed as Windows 10s alright. Pity makes it less a deal.

100% sure it's Windows 10s. I had the box in my hand. Still thinking of going back to get it.

sydthebeat

Is it not simply a case of clicking a few buttons to unrestrict windows Pro or home on Windows 10s machines?

beauf

I think officially you have to pay about 50 to upgrade. But I'm not sure never done it.

You could also put Linux on it, I've been reading some forums about that.

I'm also thinking of getting it a homework, study machine. I have an older 100s and while you wouldn't use it as a main machine, ours tends to get a decent amount of use as its very light, always seems to have battery when better laptops don't. Handy movie machine for the kids on holiday. Hooked it up to the hotel TV and played 1080 movies from it. Also handy to throw in a bad in case you need a VPN or net access while travelling.

Once you need to do something that takes a bit of time, I tend to go back to proper full sized laptop or desktop. Screens are better, more power, better keyboard etc.

TerrorFirmer

You could install Win10 on it via USB in 30 minutes, works forever unactivated so it's not really any kind of big deal.

I've never used it but Win 10 S sounds pretty restricting to be fair.

romperstomper

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You could install Win10 on it via USB in 30 minutes, works forever unactivated so it's not really any kind of big deal.

.

I've never used it but Win 10 S sounds pretty restricting to be fair.

unactivated windows 10 has an irritating watermark on the screen at all times - even on full screen apps like games

beauf

romperstomper wrote: »

unactivated windows 10 has an irritating watermark on the screen at all times - even on full screen apps like games

Can't turn off all the crud they stuffed through the interface either. The watermark doesn't appear in games for me.

lighthouse

Can you put software for a printer on it?
I have a Canon printer, only 2 years old.

TerrorFirmer

romperstomper wrote: »

unactivated windows 10 has an irritating watermark on the screen at all times - even on full screen apps like games

Depends on the person but I think it's barely noticeable, if even at all, I've had it like that for years on various builds and never even occurred to me.

It's in the bottom right corner, it's not as if it's thrust in your face.

Whats happening

You could upgrade to full Win 10, but with 64GB eMMC memory you'll have little for anything else.
Hence why they put Win10s on these entry machines

KrakityJones

You can disable s-mode and run Windows normally apparently.

https://www.howtogeek.com/360007/how-to-leave-windows-10s-s-mode/amp/