My parents got this as a "light use" computer to replace an ancient desktop. Does them nicely. Big, chunky, robust plastic.
KareemSaid
25 Dec 161#2
Appears to be a good price for what you get, almost disposable at £3.85 a week.
Had shocking CS from Acer and Argos in the past when I bought a laptop from deal on here with a 3 year "warranty"
Was cheaper to buy a refurbished hp from newandusedlaptops than fix the alleged fault. Which has done me 3+ years now
Seems to be a good price for what you get though - hot!
The_Circle to KareemSaid
25 Dec 16#10
jasee
25 Dec 16#3
Sorry no. Because of the 1366 x 768 pixels display (not full HD) which seems to go with a nasty low resolution display.
aj2001
25 Dec 161#4
•High definition display.
•Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels.
ermmm should that be 1920 x 1080 Display resolution??
is it a typo on argos part as its always seems to be
lukaszjambor to aj2001
25 Dec 161#5
High definition display - "you can't use your fingers to count pixels" - definition by Argos
srw985 to aj2001
25 Dec 161#6
Not a typo. It seems to be common practice for laptops with 1366x768 displays to be sold as high definition, even though you'd really struggle to find a laptop with a lower resolution display.
le_jaeger
25 Dec 161#7
Anything with more than 720 lines/pixels horizontally qualifies for the standard 'HD ready'. So there are displays even more old fashioned than this which are supposedly "HD".
Bit out of date standard now.
KareemSaid to le_jaeger
25 Dec 161#8
Any deals on eye tests or laser surgery to upgrade my eyes? I watch content on my TV at home and a tablet when travelling.
Not sure where this obsession with HD has come from really. Did people complain about their CRT and Trinitron TVs at the time?
Anyone with any technical knowledge know whether these specs are good for the money?
Thanks
ceridunn
25 Dec 161#9
thought for the price this seemed good value, but obviously the screen lets it down according to the experts on here. So can the experts please let me know where i can find a similar spec laptop but with the proper HD screen at this price so i can go and buy it.
aj2001
25 Dec 16#11
no one said the screen is bad, the laptop I am typing on is also 1366 x 768 pixels and its fine. Its six years old though so you just expect the screen res to be upgraded like everything else is.
I voted hot and I think its a good price, I paid more than this new item for a display model lenovo g550 pentium dual-core t4300, 3gb ram, 250gb hdd and 15.6" screen, and windows 7. oh and no hdmi port.
As always do you own research.
jedijacobs
25 Dec 16#12
I'm happy to spend £50-£100 more on a laptop, but is there much more bang for my buck than this, or is this pound for pound the best deal around at the moment?
k55ojo to jedijacobs
25 Dec 16#13
If your willing to spend £150 more this would be a good one for you.
My absolute max is £299.99 for a laptop as they tend to go wrong and be upgraded after a year or two anyway, so is this pretty much as good as you'll get for £199.99?
Saw a few deals over Black Friday but they were either impossible to get or different specs.
Any advice on this would be great peeps.
Aside from people saying it isn't a "full HD" screen, is there anything to be wary of with this model?
I watch YouTube, surf multiple pages on the net at the same time, use a few apps etc. Bit of word processing etc.
Hope this'll be good enough.
Reviews are scarce, so if people can give personal experience, that would be good.
Thanks.
SpaceChip to jedijacobs
25 Dec 16#15
It's the best "proper" laptop (good size screen, decent hdd storage, dvd drive) I've seen for this money new anyway.
panddda to jedijacobs
25 Dec 161#16
Ah, what a shame, I found a cracker for £300 but it would be over budget. (Sorry, couldn't resist!! :laughing: )
I'm actually wondering the same thing - for around this price, what would be the best value available? It's easy to get tied up in 'full HD' but as someone else said, not so many years ago we'd have been paying £1000s for this spec and thinking the screen was absolutely amazing. My eyes have only got worse, so I doubt I'd notice the difference too much.
people on here will always pick fault with any bargain ignoring the price. But for 200 quid this seems a good deal, even currys best effort around this price would give you a celeron processor. For someone with a few quid more argos have a lenovo for 269 that has i3 processor and 8 gig.
Can anybody tell if this has gigabit ethernet? Trawled the web for over an hour but can only find similar models.
jedijacobs
25 Dec 16#24
Is the £79 worth spending?
Aside from what I've outlined I'll use the machine for, is it worth it?
Not worried about a bag and mouse either as I have both.
Cheers.
N3lson
26 Dec 16#25
I don't know where Argos is getting the 2.6GHz from.
This is a 6W cpu, designed for IoT & chromebooks, so I wouldn't call this a "proper" laptop.
This is basically a chromebook with a HDD and a little more ram.
"is the £79 worth spending (for an i3)?"
Absolutely, yes. The i3u (15w) is a dramatically more powerful cpu.
newbie68
26 Dec 16#26
As stated earlier. Some people want the specs of a £400 machine for £199. You won't get this. You outlined what you use your laptop for and I would clearly define this as 'light use' This is absolutely fine for light use. Very good value for money!
mattwalsh25
26 Dec 16#27
Would the Lenovo be better spec wise than this? Grateful for any advice people can give.
I can see that the Lenovo has a higher res screen but has less RAM and i3 instead of i5.
GlentoranMark
26 Dec 16#28
Can anyone tell me how this compares to an AMD Athlon X2 250 processor? I can't find the n4200 on CPUboss.com.
The Athlon is in my desktop and it's a few years old but I run software that needs similar or better specs so no point me buying something inferior.
I've ordered for reservation but I've 4 days to make up my mind.
Jonb133
26 Dec 16#29
Is this better or worse than a Dell XPS 15?
flity7
26 Dec 16#30
Well I took the plunge! Just collected it an hour ago and unpacking it now. Hopefully better than my Packard bell TJ64 note. Any settings tweeks would be appreciated from any of you tech gurus. Thanks to the OP for the post.
jedijacobs to flity7
26 Dec 16#31
Very interested to hear how it is.
I've reserved 2 (one for me and one for my parents).
Keep us posted.
Enjoy x
SpaceChip
26 Dec 16#32
For general browsing and word processing what difference will this make?
Better for him to either save the money or replace the HDD in this with an SSD and pocket some change, as that would be the most noticable upgrade for uses such as this, in my opinion at least.
jedijacobs
26 Dec 16#33
Much appreciated.
As long as I can have multiple pages open, steam YouTube/iplayer seamlessly, do word processing and general day to day activities, I think this is quite a good buy.
I don't play any games (apart from facebook games) and don't really need tip top tech.
I do have some DJ software but don't use it much.
Any further reviews or details at all, please let me know.
Also, screen and speakers... all ok?
Laubi02
26 Dec 16#34
Anyone know if these will be good for digital art with a drawing tablet?
amour3k
27 Dec 16#35
Is the 10% Argos Quidco offer still on?, or ..... thanx. :-)
k55ojo to amour3k
27 Dec 16#36
possibly, hasn't been updated yet ot quidco site.
amour3k
27 Dec 16#37
That's what I was thought too?, lol.
Thanx.
adgedan
27 Dec 161#38
My first ever post on here because of this laptop. I have an apple Macbook Pro as my normal computer along with an iMac, Toshiba Chromebook and a fairly new Asus PC which my daughter uses for college. I took the plunge for this offer at Argos on this laptop as I needed a PC for certain software which will not work on my Mac. For less than £200 you really cannot go wrong. After removing all the bloatware which came with the laptop and 2 hours of Windows updates I can safely say it handles Excel, Word e.t.c and browsing without any problems at all. I have had many laptops over the years and for just your basic needs this is spot on. Quidico is currently showing £6 cashback as well.
HornetUKWFC
27 Dec 16#39
adgedan out of interest what do you recommend removing I have bought one too, but don't want to remove something important by mistake. I only want it for Word/excel, Skype and browsing. Thanks for any advice.
One issue I do have is I get a network 2.0 or something microsoft software is missing on start up,would that be because I installed an old printer, as it seems to do it since then.
adgedan to HornetUKWFC
29 Dec 16#42
Hi Hornet UKWFC
To be honest I am no IT expert but removed Macafee anti virus and used Windows Defender and all the games apps,, I left Acer Configuration Manager, Acer Quick Access and Acer UEIP but removed all the Acer document apps etc. Sorry I cannot be more precise but I did not take note of them before removing them. It might be worth doing a backup prior to doing it but it did make a big difference. Try using CCleaner from Piriform as this helps things speed up a bit as well. Good Luck.
Quarantine
28 Dec 16#40
rated cold laptop specs are 1.1 GHZ not the 2.6 GHZ advertised taking mine back today.
jedijacobs to Quarantine
28 Dec 16#41
Are you taking back because you've tried it and that's the problem or does it say it on the side and basically it's just the wrong spec?
daviescr to Quarantine
29 Dec 16#49
Hello, Did you get any joy with obtaining a refund considering this inaccuracy on the specification of the product please? Thank you.
Sam_Body
29 Dec 16#43
I had to vote cold - please mark as expired, product not in stock. Ordered one and had appaling customer service from Argos, they informed that is being delivered and then I had to call them to find out that in fact it is not coming at all as out of stock! No wonder they are lying regarding the specs as well. Be careful when ordering something from Argos, they have rude customer service people in a foreign call center and communication with client is zero.
Quarantine
29 Dec 16#44
took it back because it's the wrong spec advertised. Tried it also and wasn't happy with the performance. Complained to argos and they were aware of the issue and offered me a full refund also they offered to knock £50 off a higher priced laptop after complaining. They have advised me they will be changing the description asap.
Quarantine
29 Dec 161#45
Just confirm if you go into settings and then click about. The specs read as 1.1Ghz Quad, even the Acer site explains it's 1.1 Ghz. I have a screen shot if anyone is in doubt. Don't be dupped by the description on Argos website.
BargainhuntSteve
29 Dec 16#46
mine arrived on Tuesday and was updating all of yesterday. still waiting to see if performance is acceptable.
jedijacobs to BargainhuntSteve
29 Dec 16#48
Any good?
Update/review would be awesome :smile:
jedijacobs
29 Dec 16#47
Does the spec dramatically change the overall deal here?
Being pentium quad core, is that still good or is it now a basic laptop?
Just intrigued as I'm picking mine up on Saturday and unsure what to expect or even if I should bother?!
Quarantine
30 Dec 16#50
yes I got a full refund in store. The manager offered me £50 off a different laptop but the only one I was interested was the Lenovo 2.1 quad core at £249 however it was not in stock. I wrote a complaint to Argos and basically pushed my limit and they have agreed to stick to the managers offer and send me £50 gift card as a gesture of good will So I can order the laptop when in stock. The performance seemed sluggish to me but without a proper bench test I don't want to committ to saying it was terrible. The fact it was 1.1 GHZ was enough for me to decide.
daviescr
30 Dec 16#51
Thank you for your reply. Agreed the 'base' frequency is way too low for this sort of money never mind being £100.00 more expensive which it's otherwise sold at not being on offer.
Quarantine
30 Dec 16#52
Argos have amended the description from 2.6 to 2.4 Ghz. They are still going from the turbo speed and not the 1.1 factory Ghz it is. So my complaint has fallen on deaf ears.
Quarantine
30 Dec 161#53
as Nelson wrote all of the info is here
twinkle eyes
1 Jan 17#54
Price has gone up by £50 now
amour3k to twinkle eyes
1 Jan 17#55
The New Year should hopefully be seeing older Stock's coming down in price, instead of the opposite ...
MB1978
2 Jan 17#56
I've bought this laptop but it seems to buzz/vibrate all the time. Can I check if anyone else's Acer Aspire laptop does this? Thanks :neutral_face:
adzyp
2 Jan 17#57
got one of these, removed mcafee and put kaspersky on. only other thing ive put on is office365. performance is so laggy feels like and old laptop!
fr0d0 to adzyp
2 Jan 171#58
Same here but I removed all of the advertising, snooping and connection sharing features of Windows 10. Mine runs like treacle too. I took it back and Argos refused to take it back as I'd paid for it in store (my wife's purchase that I picked up). I didn't notice the get out clause that gets Argos out of the distance selling regulations.
Now I'm following up the misadvertising route as this isn't the 2.6ghz laptop that was advertised.
I'd remind everyone never to buy goods with a memory in store from Argos as you lose your right to return it.
jedijacobs
3 Jan 171#59
I've spoken to them online and discussed how poor it is to be selling something that isn't as advertised!
They agreed to accept it back and will offer a replacement of higher value.
I'll let you know how i get on...
adzyp to jedijacobs
3 Jan 17#60
How did you get on? Have you had chance to take it back yet?
jedijacobs
3 Jan 17#61
Taken back, refunded and offered £50 off higher priced laptop.
Headache long phone call with threats and then had to go over it again with them in store, as well as having to reset the machine which took forever (shows how poor the machine is!).
Worth it in the end but alas, the search for a decent laptop under £300 continues...
Quarantine to jedijacobs
3 Jan 17#62
well done I had the same result just waiting for my £50 voucher to arrive in the post. wonder if they will finally change the description now
fr0d0
6 Jan 17#63
My local Argos agreed (via central technical advice) that the description was incorrect. I only submitted the proof provided here (links to Intel CPU page, links to another laptop on Argos with a corresponding Intel CPU page which quoted the base frequency, and finally, the Acer website selling a laptop with the identical CPU advertised as 1.10Ghz.
I didn't push for any more as I'm just happy to be able to return it for a full refund.
Quarantine to fr0d0
6 Jan 17#64
They have now changed the description to 1.1 GHZ. I wonder how many people got stung on this.
karo76hama
15 Jan 17#65
cold from me.
I bought and have to take back.
the wifi didn't connect .on and off all the time.
restarted re format it.
didn't help.
Looks this style is not good.
I check online lots of ppl complain about it.
not recommending at all
g0alfar
4 Feb 17#66
Bought a ACER ASPIRE ES 15 laptop from Argos on 26th Dec 16 , as it was reduced in price .
It was only boxed in cardboard , without any protective bubblewrap to prevent impact during delivery !
So easy to set up , I was up and running within 30 mins out of the box !
7 days pass, then without warning the screen fails !
I phone Acer , but they were closed , so contacted Argos who referred me back to Acer .
I needed a laptop , as I was away for 2 weeks , but Argos did'nt want to know !
2 weeks later I got home & contacted Acer who said that they would email a postage label .
Nothing arrived , so I tried Acer Support . They fired questions at me as to how the screen broke , I told them it had not been dropped by me ! I went on to say that I had plugged into the USB Ports , so they accused me of damage , and told me the Graphic Card had failed ! They demanded I pay a large postage fee , up front for them to look at it .
In the meantime , i got a prepaid post label from Acer Manufacturer , so off it went !
2days later they called me from Telford , told me physical damage had broken the screen and that it would cost £ 101
What actually happened , was because Acer had not wrapped it in a fragile type box , it had suffered a hairline crack during transit . When the screen warmed up , it simply failed .
I called Argos who said it was down to Acer , despite it was from them I had bought it !
Opening post
£199.99 instead of £299.99
CPU, Memory and Operating System:
•Intel Pentium n4200 quad core processor.
•2.6GHz processor speed.
•4GB RAM.
•1TB SATA-III hard drive.
•Microsoft Windows 10.
Display features:
•15.6 inch screen.
•High definition display.
•Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels.
DVD optical drives:
•DVD plus RW/DVD-RW (read/write).
Graphics:
•Intel HD Graphicshd graphics 505 graphics card.
•Shared graphics card.
Interfaces and connectivity:
•SD media card reader.
•Secure Digital (SD), .
•2 USB 2.0 ports.
•1 USB 3.0 port.
•1 Ethernet port.
•1 HDMI port.
•Bluetooth.
•Wi-Fi enabled.
Multimedia features:
•VGA webcam.
•Built-in mic.
•HD Audio sound system.
General features:
•Up to 6.5 hours battery life.
•Size H2.46, W38.18, D25.8cm.
•Weight 2.4kg.
•EAN: 4713392842092.
All comments (66)
Had shocking CS from Acer and Argos in the past when I bought a laptop from deal on here with a 3 year "warranty"
Was cheaper to buy a refurbished hp from newandusedlaptops than fix the alleged fault. Which has done me 3+ years now
Seems to be a good price for what you get though - hot!
•Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels.
ermmm should that be 1920 x 1080 Display resolution??
is it a typo on argos part as its always seems to be
Bit out of date standard now.
Not sure where this obsession with HD has come from really. Did people complain about their CRT and Trinitron TVs at the time?
Anyone with any technical knowledge know whether these specs are good for the money?
Thanks
I voted hot and I think its a good price, I paid more than this new item for a display model lenovo g550 pentium dual-core t4300, 3gb ram, 250gb hdd and 15.6" screen, and windows 7. oh and no hdmi port.
As always do you own research.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-yoga-510-14-full-hd-2-1-with-faster-ssd-storage-349-currys-for-349-2585106
Saw a few deals over Black Friday but they were either impossible to get or different specs.
Any advice on this would be great peeps.
Aside from people saying it isn't a "full HD" screen, is there anything to be wary of with this model?
I watch YouTube, surf multiple pages on the net at the same time, use a few apps etc. Bit of word processing etc.
Hope this'll be good enough.
Reviews are scarce, so if people can give personal experience, that would be good.
Thanks.
I'm actually wondering the same thing - for around this price, what would be the best value available? It's easy to get tied up in 'full HD' but as someone else said, not so many years ago we'd have been paying £1000s for this spec and thinking the screen was absolutely amazing. My eyes have only got worse, so I doubt I'd notice the difference too much.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-g50-80-15-6-inch-ci3-8gb-1tb-laptop-silver-2585630
Aside from what I've outlined I'll use the machine for, is it worth it?
Not worried about a bag and mouse either as I have both.
Cheers.
Pentium N4200 is a 1.1GHz processor (with 2.5GHz boost).
http://ark.intel.com/products/95592/Intel-Pentium-Processor-N4200-2M-Cache-up-to-2_5-GHz
Argos has a nasty habit of quoting "burst speed" as actual CPU speed.
Acer (correctly) calls this a 1.1GHz cpu (14" version linked)
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/model/NX.GJ4EK.003
This is a 6W cpu, designed for IoT & chromebooks, so I wouldn't call this a "proper" laptop.
This is basically a chromebook with a HDD and a little more ram.
"is the £79 worth spending (for an i3)?"
Absolutely, yes. The i3u (15w) is a dramatically more powerful cpu.
http://www.ebuyer.com/760637-hp-250-g5-i5-laptop-x0q78es-x0q78es-abu
I can see that the Lenovo has a higher res screen but has less RAM and i3 instead of i5.
The Athlon is in my desktop and it's a few years old but I run software that needs similar or better specs so no point me buying something inferior.
I've ordered for reservation but I've 4 days to make up my mind.
I've reserved 2 (one for me and one for my parents).
Keep us posted.
Enjoy x
Better for him to either save the money or replace the HDD in this with an SSD and pocket some change, as that would be the most noticable upgrade for uses such as this, in my opinion at least.
As long as I can have multiple pages open, steam YouTube/iplayer seamlessly, do word processing and general day to day activities, I think this is quite a good buy.
I don't play any games (apart from facebook games) and don't really need tip top tech.
I do have some DJ software but don't use it much.
Any further reviews or details at all, please let me know.
Also, screen and speakers... all ok?
Thanx.
One issue I do have is I get a network 2.0 or something microsoft software is missing on start up,would that be because I installed an old printer, as it seems to do it since then.
To be honest I am no IT expert but removed Macafee anti virus and used Windows Defender and all the games apps,, I left Acer Configuration Manager, Acer Quick Access and Acer UEIP but removed all the Acer document apps etc. Sorry I cannot be more precise but I did not take note of them before removing them. It might be worth doing a backup prior to doing it but it did make a big difference. Try using CCleaner from Piriform as this helps things speed up a bit as well. Good Luck.
Update/review would be awesome :smile:
Being pentium quad core, is that still good or is it now a basic laptop?
Just intrigued as I'm picking mine up on Saturday and unsure what to expect or even if I should bother?!
Now I'm following up the misadvertising route as this isn't the 2.6ghz laptop that was advertised.
I'd remind everyone never to buy goods with a memory in store from Argos as you lose your right to return it.
They agreed to accept it back and will offer a replacement of higher value.
I'll let you know how i get on...
Headache long phone call with threats and then had to go over it again with them in store, as well as having to reset the machine which took forever (shows how poor the machine is!).
Worth it in the end but alas, the search for a decent laptop under £300 continues...
I didn't push for any more as I'm just happy to be able to return it for a full refund.
I bought and have to take back.
the wifi didn't connect .on and off all the time.
restarted re format it.
didn't help.
Looks this style is not good.
I check online lots of ppl complain about it.
not recommending at all
It was only boxed in cardboard , without any protective bubblewrap to prevent impact during delivery !
So easy to set up , I was up and running within 30 mins out of the box !
7 days pass, then without warning the screen fails !
I phone Acer , but they were closed , so contacted Argos who referred me back to Acer .
I needed a laptop , as I was away for 2 weeks , but Argos did'nt want to know !
2 weeks later I got home & contacted Acer who said that they would email a postage label .
Nothing arrived , so I tried Acer Support . They fired questions at me as to how the screen broke , I told them it had not been dropped by me ! I went on to say that I had plugged into the USB Ports , so they accused me of damage , and told me the Graphic Card had failed ! They demanded I pay a large postage fee , up front for them to look at it .
In the meantime , i got a prepaid post label from Acer Manufacturer , so off it went !
2days later they called me from Telford , told me physical damage had broken the screen and that it would cost £ 101
What actually happened , was because Acer had not wrapped it in a fragile type box , it had suffered a hairline crack during transit . When the screen warmed up , it simply failed .
I called Argos who said it was down to Acer , despite it was from them I had bought it !