Acer Dual Core Netbook, €225 @ Argos

bucks73 · 07-12-2010 04:56PM

Text received earlier from Limerick Crescent store that reservation was waiting to be collected. Went down and paid the €225.

Quaderno · 07-12-2010 05:59PM

I have one code to give away for Cork (Queens Old Castle), valid today and tomorrow. Just reply.

Bill-e · 07-12-2010 06:03PM

If anyone has a Code for Cork I'd very much appreciate it!

Quaderno · 07-12-2010 06:07PM

Here you are, Code gone.

Bill-e wrote: »

If anyone has a Code for Cork I'd very much appreciate it!

Markjsca1 · 07-12-2010 07:59PM

Any dublin codes?

g0g · 07-12-2010 08:02PM

Don't think so! Seems to be a good few sniffing around for them too!

Can't believe I missed out this bargain!

emo72 · 07-12-2010 08:13PM

i collected mine today. 225. bargain!

chris85 · 07-12-2010 08:24PM

Collected mine just an hour ago and and paid the €225, typing on it as we speak. Its very nice.

its a xmas present from me to me.

07-12-2010 10:39PM

g0g wrote: »

Don't think so! Seems to be a good few sniffing around for them too! Can't believe I missed out this bargain!

I missed out on it roughly 6 hours after it was posted here, If you can't believe it think how I feel

G-Man · 07-12-2010 10:54PM

I'd appreciate a dublin pick up code, if anyone is not interested in theirs.

mbarosin · 07-12-2010 11:06PM

If anyone has a code for any in Leinster that would be great

Pstj2000 · 07-12-2010 11:47PM

Unlikely as it is, does any1 have a code for one of the three stores in Cork?

colferma · 08-12-2010 12:20AM

Liam O wrote: »

I missed out on it roughly 6 hours after it was posted here, If you can't believe it think how I feel

Odd: I was humming and hawing about whether or not I should pick one of these up and left it til Monday (yesterday) evening to check if a reservation was even possible. The first place I tried, Navan, had one left, despite all the calls for codes over the weekend. Maybe the Argos stock system isn't all that trustworthy? (Or maybe it's something to do with Navan.) Could be worth keeping an eye on the site over the next few days though.

geecee · 08-12-2010 01:21AM

The Netbook is still showing up as €224.99 on the link in the OP

However when you try to reserve it - it now shows up at €339.99 in your basket instead of the €224.99.... so it looks like they have half corrected their mistake... probably in anticipation of further stock arriving!

kisugem · 08-12-2010 01:27AM

Yes, the offer is over, in an hour or so they will correct the price on the netbook page itself.
Oh well.. will look out for a new deal.. well done to everyone who was lucky to get one.

pjproby · 08-12-2010 02:09AM

Quaderno

thanks-collected ours today-well done

bestie · 08-12-2010 03:23AM

it's back to full price now

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5084265/Trail/searchtext%3ED255.htm

wonder if anyone got fired over this..

08-12-2010 06:42AM

Does anyone have any other recommendations on a good cheap netbook? I always put a lot of research into these things unless an offer like this comes up. Oh well, onwards and upwards I suppose...

08-12-2010 11:47AM

Abril Sparse Tray wrote: »

The same one is on pixmania for 230 plus delivery. Someone posted the link.

except it's not the same:(

kensutz · 08-12-2010 12:59PM

Just got a text to say mine was in today. I somehow don't think I'll bother now since the price went up.

Svetti Arss · 08-12-2010 01:12PM

kensutz wrote: »

Just got a text to say mine was in today. I somehow don't think I'll bother now since the price went up.

Confirm the price by ringing them up or go into the store before you make that decision. I picked 2 up yesterday at the lower price.

bkeano · 08-12-2010 01:57PM

Guess what Price on the Website is now €339 so was a great deal to those who got one!!!

bestie · 08-12-2010 02:07PM

Abril Sparse Tray wrote: »

The same one is on pixmania for 230 plus delivery. Someone posted the link.

that one was only a single core n450 with DDR2 ram

davoxx · 08-12-2010 02:39PM

if you have a reservation, they will give it to you at the reservation price if you tell them that it was coz of the snow.

must say that was sound of them!!!

Bill-e · 08-12-2010 03:12PM

Thanks a million Quaderno, for the OP and the res code!

tvercetti · 08-12-2010 05:48PM

Got mine today in Tralee for 225, price had gone up but beacause I reserved it at 225, they were happy to accept

Thanks Quaderno

kensutz · 08-12-2010 05:49PM

Lads stop sending me pm's asking for the reservation code. I'm going into Argos tomorrow.

Quaderno · 08-12-2010 07:28PM

It's nice to see that you fellow boardsies enjoyed this thread

To conclude it I want to mention two great programs I use, which make this (and any other netbook or notebook) a lot more useful. Both are freely provided under the GPLv2 licence as well as fully open source.

The first one is synkron, a multi platform folder synchronisation tool which can be used to bring the files on your netbook up to date before you take it out and synchronise everything you have changed with your main machine when you come back - with basically one click. So you always have the same, current documents on both (or more) computers, no matter which one you used last.

Secondly, when at home, I love to use synergy+, which essentially shares the keyboard and mouse of your main machine with your netbook. You place the netbook at the side of your monitor (or notebook) and tell the software that it sits to the right (or left) and vice versa. Now your mouse pointer will simply move to the screen of the netbook whenever it leaves the screen of your other machine. While the mouse pointer is on your netbook it also switches your keyboard to the netbook, so you can fully use it without even touching it. It's just like a screen extension - only better, because you still have two fully independent machines.

Enjoy!

Edit: The link to the synergy site doesn't seem to work at the moment. You can still check here.

emo72 · 08-12-2010 08:52PM

can confirm also, that the sob story about the snow worked. be persistant, but nice!

Ghost Train · 08-12-2010 09:10PM

emo72 wrote: »

can confirm also, that the sob story about the snow worked. be persistant, but nice!

Good to know they can be flexable

really liking the netbook, haven't found win 7 starter limiting me in any way yet, managed to switch the background too but not straight forward. Browsing plenty fast, flash content runs just fast enough and battery life very good

Acer Dual Core Netbook, €225 @ Argos

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