Just been into Sainsbury's Milton Keynes and notice they had a few laptops reduced to clear.
I managed to pick up an Acer Aspire E14 ES1-411 14" Laptop for £99 with the following spec:
Windows 8.1
Intel Celeron N2840
2GB DDR3 Ram
500GB HDD
Although the specs aren't fantastic, this will be excellent for my 7 year old son to complete his homework on which now always seems to be computer based week on week.
Top comments
Stealth_Fox to btcczs
29 Mar 165#3
If your 7 year olds home work is either "visit this website and take this quiz, print out your results" or "research this topic on the internet", pen & paper won't get you very far unfortunately :/
ollie87
30 Mar 163#11
Because of rose tinted spectacles.
"WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS WHEN I WAS A LAD?"
Well because the technology wasn't:
1) Available
2) Affordable
3) Small enough
4) User friendly enough
Also infant mortality rates were through the roof and we still thought Lead and Asbestos were great materials.
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uptwisting
29 Mar 161#1
Ahh yes, the failure of the education system has become very affordable.
craigstephens to uptwisting
29 Mar 162#8
How is using a computer for homework at all a reflection of the education system?
btcczs
29 Mar 161#2
Pen and Paper never hurt me!
Stealth_Fox to btcczs
29 Mar 165#3
If your 7 year olds home work is either "visit this website and take this quiz, print out your results" or "research this topic on the internet", pen & paper won't get you very far unfortunately :/
Quickblood to btcczs
29 Mar 162#9
Computers never hurt me, Paper did though, nasty cuts.
008 to btcczs
30 Mar 16#17
>>>>>
davej1710
29 Mar 161#4
Nice find and price. I'm guessing its very similar to one I bought the missus after Christmas that was listed on HUKD.
I swapped out the RAM in it to 8gb, didnt bother with the HD upgrade to SSD and its fine for surfing the web, running office and email etc. Would suggest you tell the kids not to expect it to be quick and not install the latest high overhead games on it as It'll fail badly, but if you need it for basics, its a great little machine. Not sure if you get a DVD/ CD drive on this one (or even want one) but I commented on the other thread that you could either buy one to add internally or get an external player for around £20. Perfectly fine if you'd like it to double up as a DVD player too.
matthlock
29 Mar 16#5
cpu might not be great but good find for £99. ssds are really cheap now so swap out thr 500GB hdd for a 128GB Ssd and it'll fly. also guessing the 2GB RAM is ungradable?
btcczs
29 Mar 16#6
Forgot to say they only had the one on sale but I asked at the counter and they have quite a few out back
borat1234
29 Mar 16#7
Likely to be nation wide or local?
DRAMBUI
30 Mar 16#10
None in Walsall, Wednesfield or Cannock
ollie87
30 Mar 163#11
Because of rose tinted spectacles.
"WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS WHEN I WAS A LAD?"
Well because the technology wasn't:
1) Available
2) Affordable
3) Small enough
4) User friendly enough
Also infant mortality rates were through the roof and we still thought Lead and Asbestos were great materials.
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Opening post
I managed to pick up an Acer Aspire E14 ES1-411 14" Laptop for £99 with the following spec:
Windows 8.1
Intel Celeron N2840
2GB DDR3 Ram
500GB HDD
Although the specs aren't fantastic, this will be excellent for my 7 year old son to complete his homework on which now always seems to be computer based week on week.
Top comments
"WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS WHEN I WAS A LAD?"
Well because the technology wasn't:
1) Available
2) Affordable
3) Small enough
4) User friendly enough
Also infant mortality rates were through the roof and we still thought Lead and Asbestos were great materials.
All comments (23)
I swapped out the RAM in it to 8gb, didnt bother with the HD upgrade to SSD and its fine for surfing the web, running office and email etc. Would suggest you tell the kids not to expect it to be quick and not install the latest high overhead games on it as It'll fail badly, but if you need it for basics, its a great little machine. Not sure if you get a DVD/ CD drive on this one (or even want one) but I commented on the other thread that you could either buy one to add internally or get an external player for around £20. Perfectly fine if you'd like it to double up as a DVD player too.
"WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS WHEN I WAS A LAD?"
Well because the technology wasn't:
1) Available
2) Affordable
3) Small enough
4) User friendly enough
Also infant mortality rates were through the roof and we still thought Lead and Asbestos were great materials.