Tesco Laptop!

Endurance Man · 06-09-2005 3:28pm #1

Not sure if you folks have seen this. Tesco are selling a laptop at the moment. Its an Iqon, doesnt look to bad for 699. Intel Celeron M Processor, 15inch screen, 512 ram, think it was a 40gb hdd.
Thought i would share

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robo · 06-09-2005 5:51pm

Has anyone bought this? Is it any good? Worth what you pay for the money?

djfattony2000 · 06-09-2005 7:08pm

My sis'in law got one. Its very light and looks the business, wide screen and all the rest of it. Theres no wireless on it though

Stimpyone · 06-09-2005 7:22pm

what are the graphics like?, somebody said that it had a nvida card is so which one, and how big?

Endurance Man · 06-09-2005 8:12pm

I should be going into tesco tommorow, ill take a pen and pad and get the details of it

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Cabaal · 06-09-2005 9:41pm

Kind of sucks it has a Celeron however for that price don't see it getting anything better

Damn shame it doesn't have wireless, wouldn't be a bad kit otherwise

BeardyGit · 06-09-2005 9:45pm

You'd be better of dropping out to PC world - They're clearing out laptop stocks at the moment - I bought 3 different machines (1 for me, 2 for friends) there a few weeks back....Decent kit too for what you'd pay - Anything from 600 upwards

Redrocket · 07-09-2005 12:00pm

what speed processor is it?

Endurance Man · 07-09-2005 5:47pm

http://www.iqon.ie/product_info.php?cPath=22_33_35&products_id=52&osCsid=c38dba8b3eda638131223d74274cdac9

Im fairly sure thats^^ the laptop, listed for 999 at the manufactures website, 699 at tesco

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Thomas_S_Hunterson · 07-09-2005 5:51pm

Celeron M...shudder

Not bad for the price though

Redrocket · 08-09-2005 8:05am

so nobody knows what processor it is then?

cdebru · 08-09-2005 8:12am

Power City have an Acer sempron 2800 for 699

Matthewthebig · 08-09-2005 8:13am

Celeron M!

andy1249 · 08-09-2005 1:42pm

I needed a cheap laptop so I got this , I have been looking and this is the best deal I have seen , I dont trust PCworld , so I went to Tescos !!

Laptop is not quite the one shown in the above link , its a Celeron M 330 which runs at 1.4GHz.
It has 3 USB ports , one TV out port , One VGA out , One type II cardbus Slot ( PCMCIA) and a Sony DVDRW , sound connectors on front for external speakers or headphones.
There are no other ports

It has 256MB ram ( not 512 as posted ) however it uses So-DIMM DDR and 512MB from Komplett is 80 if you need to upgrade.

It has no wireless, but a 40 euro usb dongle from 3com ( available of komplett ) would sort that out.
It comes with microsoft works 8 , a driver disk , and an OEM version of windows XP SP2, that means you get no XP disk , there is a hidden partition containing a recovery image on the hard drive , this can be burned to disk.

The screen is 15.4 ( I think ) widescreen , and has a native resolution of 1280 x 800 , the graphics are intel xtreme onboard and take 32 MB of the system memory. There are no physical buttons for adjusting the screen , its all done with function buttons , the manual explaining this is in PDF form on the driver disk supplied. The screen is nice and bright and has a good contrast.

There is no floppy , your only input is the DVD, or usb devices. The DVD comes with a complete Cyberlink / Power DVD suite , including power2go DVD and CD writing software. ( this is not quite nero , but is very easy to use and quite reliable.) PowerDVD is an excellent DVD player.

antivirus is Computer associates "Etrust" , free for 90 days , after that you can subscribe or change to another!!

Watched a bit of Animatrix on it , There was no screen tearing and the picture was fine. ( Until the battery started beeping at me and then it slowed a bit ! ..but thats normal !! )

You get one year warranty , Iqon are based in Ireland , there is 24 hour telephone support.

It has a good solid feel , its light enough , and the battery lasts approx 2.5 hours. All in all , for the money its quite good. The best match I have seen is an ACER model from Komplett and thats almost 70 euro more expensive for almost exactly the same spec.

This is quite a good deal with a good support package. You wont be playing games on it but for say , someone going to college , or for business and surfing , its fine.

At 699 euros you not really going to do much better , I would have to rate this as very good !

Redrocket · 08-09-2005 1:56pm

acer sempron: off the powercity website.

ACER ....€ 699.95
Producer Recycling Fund
EMC Included € 0.00
Excluding EMC € 699.95
ACER AMD SEMPRON 2800+ PROC
15" SCREEN
WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION
256MB MEMORY 60GB HDD
CDRW - DVD COMBO
WIRED LAN , MODEM , MSWORKS
64MB SHARED VGA GRAPHICS

seems to have more gfx memory, larger hard disk, better clock speed?, but no dvd-rw, doesnt mention wireless lan

andy1249 · 08-09-2005 2:02pm

The acer GFX memory is shared ,as in the iqon , that means onboard graphics , how much shared memory is set in the bios , usually 32 or 64 , Sempron 2800 is approx equivalent to celeron M 330 , might be about 1.5 ghz instead of 1.4 ,

For me the DVD writer was important , so that was the clincher but both machines look very respectable ,

All in all the specs are very close , price is same , would recommend both !! Are you closer to a power city or a tescos ?

rabbitinlights · 08-09-2005 2:25pm

andy1249 wrote:

I dont trust PCworld , so I went to Tescos !!

Im not a huge fan of PCworld, but thats funny.

Redrocket · 08-09-2005 3:52pm

im not a huge intel fan, id go the extra mile,
i dunno about the gfx, the details on both are very limited

ando · 08-09-2005 4:27pm

my company resells and supports Iqon Pc's. Their impressive computers, I havent had one die on me in 3 yrs of installing & supporting them, although little problems here and there have been fixed under warranty no problem. I would deffo recommend them if anyone is thinking of buying Iqon. Their based in Dundalk

XDA · 08-09-2005 11:16pm

Dell currently have a laptop on offer for € 609 including delivery ... spec looks comparable to the machines mentioned here.

XDA

SouperComputer · 08-09-2005 11:34pm

Sempron 2800 is approx equivalent to celeron M 330

Granted the M330 is loosly based on the Tutalin core and "should" do more work per clock cycle, but in terms of performance, the Sempron would wipe the floor with the Cellie!

Power consumption of course is another matter, but the M330 is nowhere near ballpark in performance of the 2800

ando · 09-09-2005 7:50am

XDA wrote:

Dell currently have a laptop on offer for € 609 including delivery ... spec looks comparable to the machines mentioned here.

XDA

any link?

tadhgrrr · 09-09-2005 8:43am

the dell laptop hes on about is here
its got 512 ram and a 1.4GHz cel m processor
dvd isnt a writer though
oh and you get a free printer :P

some other good deals going atm on the dell site.

XDA · 09-09-2005 9:42am

Note that on the Dell site you have to reduce the warranty to 90-day collect and return to get the 609 price. You can get it for 669 with a 1 year warranty.

Regards

XDA

RichyX · 09-09-2005 12:05pm

tadhgrrr wrote:

the dell laptop hes on about is here
its got 512 ram and a 1.4GHz cel m processor
dvd isnt a writer though
oh and you get a free printer :P

some other good deals going atm on the dell site.

They had the same offer on the site last week but without the printer.
Without it they were around 65€ cheaper so wouldn't call it a free printer :mad:

cal29 · 09-09-2005 1:51pm

stevenk wrote:

acer sempron: off the powercity website.

ACER ....€ 699.95
Producer Recycling Fund
EMC Included € 0.00
Excluding EMC € 699.95
ACER AMD SEMPRON 2800+ PROC
15" SCREEN
WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION
256MB MEMORY 60GB HDD
CDRW - DVD COMBO
WIRED LAN , MODEM , MSWORKS
64MB SHARED VGA GRAPHICS

seems to have more gfx memory, larger hard disk, better clock speed?, but no dvd-rw, doesnt mention wireless lan

I had a look at this in Power city and as far as i remember it has built in wireless G

I would go with the Sempron 2800 rather than the Celeron

Redrocket · 16-09-2005 9:52am

must make my way to powercity so!

Mad Mike · 16-09-2005 1:19pm

cal29 wrote:

I had a look at this in Power city and as far as i remember it has built in wireless G

I would go with the Sempron 2800 rather than the Celeron

My brother bought a laptop a couple of weeks back.

I was all set to recommend the PowerCity ACER until I saw this:
http://www.acernotebooks.co.uk/asp/spec.asp?V_ID=7016

Check out the battery life only 1.5 hours. What is the point of having a laptop if you have to keep it plugeed in all the time????

In the end he bought the Tesco machine and is well pleased with it.