Okay a heads up on Acer's Black Friday event. There's a banner on site showing "upto 65% off" on the 25th for 24 hours only. Which sounds good. We've been given a tip off on some of the prices, which are looking pretty decent right now. Probably lots more to come though. Delivery will be free which is always a Brucey bonus
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Features - Music Control / Socially Connected / Water Proof
Screen Size - 2.5cm
Battery run time - 168 Hours
Gaming Laptop - Predator 15 G9-591Now £999.99 Here
Operating System - Windows 10 Home
Processor - Intel® Core™ i5-6300HQ processor Quad-core 2.30 GHz
Screen - 39.6 cm (15.6") Full HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9
Graphics - Nvidia® GeForce® GTX 970M with 3 GB Dedicated Memory
Memory - 16 GB, DDR4 SDRAM
Storage - 1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD
Acer B326HK 32" 4K Monitor Now £499.99 Here
Panel Type - IPS
Maximum Resolution - 3840 x 2160
Response Time - 6ms
Speakers - Yes
DVI - Yes
HDMI - Yes
USB - Yes
Display port - Yes
Predator XB271HK 4k GSync Monitor - Now £549Here
27” 4K (3840x2160) IPS with Zero-frame design
NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ technology keeps gameplay smooth
Standard Refresh Rate: 60Hz(DP)
Custom game profiles with Predator GameView
Fast 4ms response time
Flicker-less, Blue Light Filter and ComfyView technologies minimize eye-strain
Acer K138ST 3D Ready Short Throw compact Projector - Now £349.99Here
Native Resolution - 1280 x 800
Maximum Resolution - 1920 x 1080
Standard Mode Brightness - 800 lm
Native Aspect Ratio - 16:10
Compatible Aspect Ratio 16:9 4:3
Contrast Ratio - 100,000:1
Throw Ratio - 0.8:1 (2946.40 [email protected] mm)
Digital Zoom - 1.7x
Vertical Keystone Correction -20°/+20°
Maximum Vertical Sync - 120 Hz
Maximum Horizontal Sync - 100 kHz
Minimum Vertical Sync - 50 Hz
Minimum Horizontal Sync - 30 kHz
Colour Support -1.07 Billion Colors (30-bit
Aspire Switch 10 E 2-In-1 | SW3-013 - Now all £149.99 (see links below)
available in - Blue, pink, Purple or white
Windows 10 Home 32-bit
Intel® Atom™ Z3735F processor Quad-core 1.33 GHz
10.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) IPS Multi point Touchscreen
2GB RAM + 32GB eMMC Storage
2MP Front+Rear Camera, microSD card slot up to 128 GB
Up to 10 Hours battery life (Video Playback)
A Predator 15 G9-591 for £1019.99!?!? What a bar-Oh wait. It's cheaper than that at John Lewis (£979), comes with a backpack and a free headset and a 2 year guarantee. And that's not even on sale or special offer. Not to mention it's a 970 and not a 1070, which you can get for an extra £80~.
Getting a bit fatigued with all these "Black Friday deals", that are shops trying to get rid of unwanted stocks at basically RRP.
A shame, as some items on here (Acer B326HK) are quite a good bargain, but they've mixed poor "deals" in there too. Tarnishes the sale a bit.
badboyofrock
23 Nov 164#12
Black Friday is just another in a long line of stupid American things that seems to be creeping into my British way of life.
Salfordgirl1
22 Nov 164#6
Exactly. Black Friday is 70-80% of the time just a scam.
All comments (35)
cr7hg
22 Nov 16#1
I'm really hoping for some cheap 144hz monitor. always wanted to have one but missed £130 John Lewis deal..
hamzahuk to cr7hg
25 Nov 16#33
What was the John Lewis deal??
Salfordgirl1
22 Nov 1615#2
Lol, some of these "deals."
A Predator 15 G9-591 for £1019.99!?!? What a bar-Oh wait. It's cheaper than that at John Lewis (£979), comes with a backpack and a free headset and a 2 year guarantee. And that's not even on sale or special offer. Not to mention it's a 970 and not a 1070, which you can get for an extra £80~.
Getting a bit fatigued with all these "Black Friday deals", that are shops trying to get rid of unwanted stocks at basically RRP.
A shame, as some items on here (Acer B326HK) are quite a good bargain, but they've mixed poor "deals" in there too. Tarnishes the sale a bit.
RedRain to Salfordgirl1
22 Nov 161#3
agreed they try and nake them look good until you see the specs
IndyS to Salfordgirl1
22 Nov 16#5
Isn't this true for the most of the BF sales? I find about max 10-20% of the deals are what I would call cracking, the remainder average at best.
catbeans
22 Nov 16#4
Those predator laptops and monitors should be priced under those numbers anyway, rip off brand.
Salfordgirl1
22 Nov 164#6
Exactly. Black Friday is 70-80% of the time just a scam.
spaceinvader
22 Nov 16#7
QHD high refresh rate G-sync deals please, or me no bitey bitey.
dr104 to spaceinvader
23 Nov 161#8
Same here, I should of went for the amazon one for £437 on pre order a month ago.
fr3dy77_sp33d
23 Nov 16#9
what is the best monitor 2k (4k too heavy on my gpu) with gsync 27-28" monitor with high refresh rate for gaming. I'm looking for such monitor but it seems it narrows down to these acer and Asus brands. and the qc on both sounds dreadful.
Salfordgirl1 to fr3dy77_sp33d
23 Nov 161#10
As far as I know there's no such thing as a "2k" monitor.
Your selection for a good gaming monitor will basically be limited to Asus, Acer and BenQ though. Sometimes Samsung or LG throw their hat at it, but never seriously. The very best will be Acer and Asus.
xenononon
23 Nov 16#11
I did. Been watching the prices of these specs. Never seen it as cheap as it was. Lowest I saw before was pre-brexit at £470 for the Dell 1440p 144hz gsync.
badboyofrock
23 Nov 164#12
Black Friday is just another in a long line of stupid American things that seems to be creeping into my British way of life.
delahmed
23 Nov 16#13
release the X34p already...
dgarda
23 Nov 16#14
Can anyone advise if that acer 2 in 1 laptop is any good for under £160? I'm looking for a cheap netbook for work..want to be able to carry it around...need decent battery life..just for basic word / excel and browsing..
Salfordgirl1 to dgarda
23 Nov 16#16
You're going to need to be a bit more specific than simply "Cheap", if you want any suggestions or feedback. For an 'ultrabook' £600-700 is "cheap".
The Acer laptop is little more than a tablet with a keyboard throw in on it. Reviews aren't good. I'd imagine doing work on it would be awful. Wouldn't suggest it.
When you say "decent battery life", any idea how many hours you're talking roughly? Anything above 4-5-6 hours starts to cost a premium.
dgarda
23 Nov 16#15
All input appreciated! Thanks in advance
spaceinvader
23 Nov 16#17
I share that same regret :disappointed:
dgarda
23 Nov 16#18
Thanks for the reply...
Cheap would be under £200?
I have a ok desktop that I rarely use, and a good 19inch laptop at home for my general needs. Just looking something I can carry around and not be too worried if it gets knocked around a little. My big Asus laptop is far too heavy and big to carry.
I'd prob just use make use of time at work to work on some excel / word documents and little browsing. At home I'd use my normal laptop and desktop anyway.
Battery life....i wouldn't be on it constantly at work...prob 2-3 hours on and off or during lunch. 6 hours would suffice...plus it would prob go in power saving mode at work anyway...hope that helps you (or anyone else) help me.
Thanks
dgarda
23 Nov 16#19
Thanks for the reply...
Cheap would be under £200?
I have a ok desktop that I rarely use, and a good 19inch laptop at home for my general needs. Just looking something I can carry around and not be too worried if it gets knocked around a little. My big Asus laptop is far too heavy and big to carry.
I'd prob just use make use of time at work to work on some excel / word documents and little browsing. At home I'd use my normal laptop and desktop anyway.
Battery life....i wouldn't be on it constantly at work...prob 2-3 hours on and off or during lunch. 6 hours would suffice...plus it would prob go in power saving mode at work anyway...hope that helps you (or anyone else) help me.
Thanks
Salfordgirl1 to dgarda
23 Nov 16#20
No chance of you getting 6 hours and spending £200.
Maybe check if a Chromebooks meets your needs. I wouldn't buy anything with an AMD CPU though, it'll burn through your battery, be slow and get hot.
dgarda
23 Nov 16#21
This acer is saying upto 10hours hours on the acer website?
fishLuke
23 Nov 16#22
Careful with Acer, we had a tablet which failed and after heavy resistance they sent us a new one through warranty. The replacement also failed shortly after and they straight up refused to honour warranty. Shouts poor quality product -> profit further by making consumer buy it twice.
Their more expensive products might be OK though but I wouldn't know.
fr3dy77_sp33d to fishLuke
24 Nov 16#24
I'll second that. nothing worse than having high spec gadget that just does not work! IMHO, tablet is much easier to choose. I'll go for Samsung all the way as everything just works with it and is robust.
fr3dy77_sp33d
24 Nov 16#23
Hi, thanks for the reply. my rig is i7 4770k with gtx 780 (bit lower spec than gtx 970) and I love to play various games (include fps but just casual gamer) but love to see nice colours on the monitor (e.g. for movies)
currently torn between 3 options:
1. unbelievably cheap lg 29UC88 29" ultrawide curved (!) ips. IMHO, 1080 on this is fine because it's less tall than 24". however, I'm not to sure the performance of game on this monitor, it seems to have high input lag and I don't know how important gsync on this monitor. will I get screen tear? will it be annoying to play games? Racing game would be the desire for ultra wide screen but it will me meaningless if high input lag ruin the game?
2. Should I go for more expensive 27-28"(sadly not ultrawide) monitor such as Asus rog or acer predator which has gsync,2k/1440, tn and low input lag BUT more than double the cost of LG? The issue that I have with them is I fall in love with the idea of ultrawide and ips but these monitors is not any of those and well known for bad QC (ghosting, blb, and crack lines). what's the best way to overcome this? buy warranty? I had issue with Asus brand in the tablet area and sworn never buy their product again as I have seen their high spec items which does not work(very annoying!), I prefer brand like Samsung which just work without any issues for years. I'm dreaded that this acer and Asus monitor will be as bad as my Asus tablet experience
3. Benq gaming Monitors which most certain would be tn, often without gsync. This brand well known for gaming purposes but I lose all the features that I like as it won't be: ultra wide, curved, ips, and gsync (big sigh!)
Any thoughts which one I should go for? And what's the reason?
Salfordgirl1
25 Nov 161#25
The fact that this rubbish has 200 heat makes me wonder how legit Hotukdeals is...
Kenmarinaris
25 Nov 16#26
Nothing interesting there:(
iAmChi
25 Nov 16#27
the deals on the site is terrible. i'll just wait till boxing day or new year when people dump their unwanted stuff on ebay.
FREEZIN WOLF
25 Nov 162#28
Go figure!
What am I, chopped liver?
catbeans
25 Nov 16#29
Hey dude just chill and enjoy your Thanksgiving
lkl265
25 Nov 161#30
Liquid Leap Active Smart Band is £49.99, not £34.99
melmorc to lkl265
25 Nov 16#34
I had the same when i checked earlier but now it's showing for me at £34.99. How do you get free delivery though - it's adding £5.90 charge for me?
xchaotic
25 Nov 16#31
Predator XB1 Gaming Monitor | XB271HK is there for 549, hardly a deal but it's in stock
P666DOM
25 Nov 16#32
The £350 projector is £425.
uid
27 Nov 16#35
thats true. people only look for the price and dont even check the specs on most tech-deals :/
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Liquid Leap Active Smart Band NOW £34.99 - Here
Features - Music Control / Socially Connected / Water Proof
Screen Size - 2.5cm
Battery run time - 168 Hours
Gaming Laptop - Predator 15 G9-591Now £999.99
Here
Operating System - Windows 10 Home
Processor - Intel® Core™ i5-6300HQ processor Quad-core 2.30 GHz
Screen - 39.6 cm (15.6") Full HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9
Graphics - Nvidia® GeForce® GTX 970M with 3 GB Dedicated Memory
Memory - 16 GB, DDR4 SDRAM
Storage - 1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD
Acer B326HK 32" 4K Monitor Now £499.99 Here
Panel Type - IPS
Maximum Resolution - 3840 x 2160
Response Time - 6ms
Speakers - Yes
DVI - Yes
HDMI - Yes
USB - Yes
Display port - Yes
Predator XB271HK 4k GSync Monitor - Now £549Here
27” 4K (3840x2160) IPS with Zero-frame design
NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ technology keeps gameplay smooth
Standard Refresh Rate: 60Hz(DP)
Custom game profiles with Predator GameView
Fast 4ms response time
Flicker-less, Blue Light Filter and ComfyView technologies minimize eye-strain
Acer K138ST 3D Ready Short Throw compact Projector - Now £349.99Here
Native Resolution - 1280 x 800
Maximum Resolution - 1920 x 1080
Standard Mode Brightness - 800 lm
Native Aspect Ratio - 16:10
Compatible Aspect Ratio 16:9 4:3
Contrast Ratio - 100,000:1
Throw Ratio - 0.8:1 (2946.40 [email protected] mm)
Digital Zoom - 1.7x
Vertical Keystone Correction -20°/+20°
Maximum Vertical Sync - 120 Hz
Maximum Horizontal Sync - 100 kHz
Minimum Vertical Sync - 50 Hz
Minimum Horizontal Sync - 30 kHz
Colour Support -1.07 Billion Colors (30-bit
Aspire Switch 10 E 2-In-1 | SW3-013 - Now all £149.99 (see links below)
available in - Blue, pink, Purple or white
Windows 10 Home 32-bit
Intel® Atom™ Z3735F processor Quad-core 1.33 GHz
10.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) IPS Multi point Touchscreen
2GB RAM + 32GB eMMC Storage
2MP Front+Rear Camera, microSD card slot up to 128 GB
Up to 10 Hours battery life (Video Playback)
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Top comments
A Predator 15 G9-591 for £1019.99!?!? What a bar-Oh wait. It's cheaper than that at John Lewis (£979), comes with a backpack and a free headset and a 2 year guarantee. And that's not even on sale or special offer. Not to mention it's a 970 and not a 1070, which you can get for an extra £80~.
Getting a bit fatigued with all these "Black Friday deals", that are shops trying to get rid of unwanted stocks at basically RRP.
A shame, as some items on here (Acer B326HK) are quite a good bargain, but they've mixed poor "deals" in there too. Tarnishes the sale a bit.
All comments (35)
A Predator 15 G9-591 for £1019.99!?!? What a bar-Oh wait. It's cheaper than that at John Lewis (£979), comes with a backpack and a free headset and a 2 year guarantee. And that's not even on sale or special offer. Not to mention it's a 970 and not a 1070, which you can get for an extra £80~.
Getting a bit fatigued with all these "Black Friday deals", that are shops trying to get rid of unwanted stocks at basically RRP.
A shame, as some items on here (Acer B326HK) are quite a good bargain, but they've mixed poor "deals" in there too. Tarnishes the sale a bit.
There's 1080p, 1440p, 4k and then 8k.
You probably mean 1440p.
And rather than asking a deals website what the best monitor is, it's probably best to ask google. Like this one: http://www.144hzmonitors.com/best-gaming-monitor-2016/
Your selection for a good gaming monitor will basically be limited to Asus, Acer and BenQ though. Sometimes Samsung or LG throw their hat at it, but never seriously. The very best will be Acer and Asus.
The Acer laptop is little more than a tablet with a keyboard throw in on it. Reviews aren't good. I'd imagine doing work on it would be awful. Wouldn't suggest it.
When you say "decent battery life", any idea how many hours you're talking roughly? Anything above 4-5-6 hours starts to cost a premium.
Cheap would be under £200?
I have a ok desktop that I rarely use, and a good 19inch laptop at home for my general needs. Just looking something I can carry around and not be too worried if it gets knocked around a little. My big Asus laptop is far too heavy and big to carry.
I'd prob just use make use of time at work to work on some excel / word documents and little browsing. At home I'd use my normal laptop and desktop anyway.
Battery life....i wouldn't be on it constantly at work...prob 2-3 hours on and off or during lunch. 6 hours would suffice...plus it would prob go in power saving mode at work anyway...hope that helps you (or anyone else) help me.
Thanks
Cheap would be under £200?
I have a ok desktop that I rarely use, and a good 19inch laptop at home for my general needs. Just looking something I can carry around and not be too worried if it gets knocked around a little. My big Asus laptop is far too heavy and big to carry.
I'd prob just use make use of time at work to work on some excel / word documents and little browsing. At home I'd use my normal laptop and desktop anyway.
Battery life....i wouldn't be on it constantly at work...prob 2-3 hours on and off or during lunch. 6 hours would suffice...plus it would prob go in power saving mode at work anyway...hope that helps you (or anyone else) help me.
Thanks
Maybe check if a Chromebooks meets your needs. I wouldn't buy anything with an AMD CPU though, it'll burn through your battery, be slow and get hot.
Their more expensive products might be OK though but I wouldn't know.
currently torn between 3 options:
1. unbelievably cheap lg 29UC88 29" ultrawide curved (!) ips. IMHO, 1080 on this is fine because it's less tall than 24". however, I'm not to sure the performance of game on this monitor, it seems to have high input lag and I don't know how important gsync on this monitor. will I get screen tear? will it be annoying to play games? Racing game would be the desire for ultra wide screen but it will me meaningless if high input lag ruin the game?
2. Should I go for more expensive 27-28"(sadly not ultrawide) monitor such as Asus rog or acer predator which has gsync,2k/1440, tn and low input lag BUT more than double the cost of LG? The issue that I have with them is I fall in love with the idea of ultrawide and ips but these monitors is not any of those and well known for bad QC (ghosting, blb, and crack lines). what's the best way to overcome this? buy warranty? I had issue with Asus brand in the tablet area and sworn never buy their product again as I have seen their high spec items which does not work(very annoying!), I prefer brand like Samsung which just work without any issues for years. I'm dreaded that this acer and Asus monitor will be as bad as my Asus tablet experience
3. Benq gaming Monitors which most certain would be tn, often without gsync. This brand well known for gaming purposes but I lose all the features that I like as it won't be: ultra wide, curved, ips, and gsync (big sigh!)
Any thoughts which one I should go for? And what's the reason?
What am I, chopped liver?