There's I think 5 at Sainburys in Hedgend (Southampton), and more around the country (Harrogate may have some too: see the picture on http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer-c720-chromebook-68-99-sainsburys-harrogate-2382088)
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Petebiz
26 Jan 16#1
bought one from Sainsburys in bolton before Christmas, decent spec laptop..
PuppyButt
27 Jan 16#2
I bought the last one at Washington before Christmas as end of line stock so I doubt this offer will be on there. Can't really see them getting more delivered.
Anyway, I had to return mine, due to a fault with the TouchPad. Completely unresponsive while the charger is connected.
bobo53
27 Jan 161#3
these cpu's are more crap than what we used to get 10 years ago, useless. Cannot even push an ssd to the max limits
saucymonk to bobo53
27 Jan 16#10
Why do you need to push an SSD to its max limits?
RavyDavy
27 Jan 164#4
Experience has taught me to avoid anything with the word 'Celeron' in the description.
fishmaster to RavyDavy
27 Jan 16#8
There's good and bad Celerons. Some are decent enough and others are not so good. This is one of the not so good Celerons.
The Celeron in this deal is Silvermont (Baytrail-M) based architecture. If you want more processing power then you'd choose a Celeron based on mainstream architectures such as Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, which are sginificantly more powerful some of which still retain a low TDP (thermal design power).
So experience has made you wary of anything using the moniker Celeron and probably for good reason in the past. Intel have reused Celeron and Pentium over the years but they're nothing like the 12 year old Netburst Celerons that were useless. Intel should have come up with other names really as in all my time selling computers I get the oh but Celerons are rubbish line, and there's no time to explain it in detail, they just think he's trying to sell me a crap laptop etc :smiley:
Having said all that this will work as a general use computer, just make sure you have the latest consumer build of Windows 10 running on it, build 10586.63 released on 15th November, many people won't have updated through Windows update and will still be running build 10240.
assassin_uk1
27 Jan 16#5
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fishmaster
27 Jan 16#6
RRP is a windup. It's not bad for this money though. Similar spec Dell laptops with this spec were going for £179 new 18 months ago or so. So this is the right price.
Nelly12
27 Jan 16#7
got this for the kids to use for homework. Put windows 10 on and works really well. won't win any speed competitions but for what it's used for its ideal
jaydeeuk1
27 Jan 16#9
1366x768
bobo53
28 Jan 16#11
With that kind of cpu the ssd will be slower, the ideal would be twice the power, I think the cpu is only around 1000 passmarks so it needs twice that in my opinion
saucymonk
28 Jan 16#12
Ah, ok. Seems to be a HDD in this one though.
joolt
28 Jan 16#13
Cold - wouldn't pay over £75 for a Celeron when there's refurb i5's for £120
deal_miner to joolt
8 Feb 16#14
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Links please i5 for 120?
ukcstokie
9 Feb 16#15
I've been using this for over a week now on off. Not bad at all and fine for normal browsing, Word, etc. It feels a bit cheap but for £150 it will do very nicely.
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Specs:
15.6" screen.
1TB HDD
4G RAM
Windows 8
Intel Celeron N2840
There's I think 5 at Sainburys in Hedgend (Southampton), and more around the country (Harrogate may have some too: see the picture on http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer-c720-chromebook-68-99-sainsburys-harrogate-2382088)
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Anyway, I had to return mine, due to a fault with the TouchPad. Completely unresponsive while the charger is connected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors
The Celeron in this deal is Silvermont (Baytrail-M) based architecture. If you want more processing power then you'd choose a Celeron based on mainstream architectures such as Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, which are sginificantly more powerful some of which still retain a low TDP (thermal design power).
So experience has made you wary of anything using the moniker Celeron and probably for good reason in the past. Intel have reused Celeron and Pentium over the years but they're nothing like the 12 year old Netburst Celerons that were useless. Intel should have come up with other names really as in all my time selling computers I get the oh but Celerons are rubbish line, and there's no time to explain it in detail, they just think he's trying to sell me a crap laptop etc :smiley:
Having said all that this will work as a general use computer, just make sure you have the latest consumer build of Windows 10 running on it, build 10586.63 released on 15th November, many people won't have updated through Windows update and will still be running build 10240.
Links please i5 for 120?