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Rams cheap on ebay. Good deL

Deal

Looks great at that price :smiley:

That looks good

Almost enough to pull the trigger.
Good deal.

Had this previously and only thing I would say is the screens not great. Shame it's not full 1920 x 1080 IPS. Not bad for the money though.

Excellent deal considering it's a 256GB SSD and has Win 10 Pro. Only screen lets it down a bit. Heat.

Grrrrrr 1366 x 768

Great little laptop & processor. I have the p238 13.3" version of this & upgraded the ram to 8gb & it plays games like grid autosport on high detail & mine is only ddr3 so this should have a slightly better speed.

Windows 7?

Yes you cant upgrade the ram on this model im afraid !

this or dell outlet 13.3 display fullHD one?

Is the RAM so bad? I don't play games, just occasional videos, website browsing and non creative work stuff...

excellent price for a 14" laptop with good specs. heat added (y)

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Acer/travelmate-x349-m

I'm not saying that is the exact same model, needs some more research. Crucial are saying the X349-M can be upgraded, but maybe -M is for memory upgrade-able :smiley:

Yes 4GB is fine for normal use

Try this one - not quite as portable, but HD screen, i3 proceessor, SSD and HP so better build quality:
https://www.serversdirect.co.uk/p/1162678/hp-250-g5-core-i3-5005u-2ghz-4gb-256gb-ssd-dvd-rw-15.6-inch-windows-10-professional-laptop

Know what you mean. I picked up a Thinkpad 13 with FHD, i5-7200U and 256GB SSD for under £500 recently but had to resort to Ebay for it.

I think you missed this then, Click me Acer Swift 3 £480 14" 1080p, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM and i3-7100u.

I think this is a better deal

no the screen is no better on this one so its no better...

That's a good bargain for a Thinkpad 13. Does it have backlit keyboard? If so, will have to start looking on ebay. Thanks.

Surely you mean seconds.

About a minute to two minutes. Certainly not seconds. It is on in seconds but it has to initialise so i have to wait for two minutes before i can start browsing or work with microsoft office

Shouldn't take that long with a ssd. You might want to check what programs are running at start-up

You need to right click on your taskbar then click on Task Manager then click on the Start-up tab and disable anything you don't need to open when windows starts.

You can also click on This PC then right click on your SSD (C:) and click on properties and uncheck Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties. Your laptop shouldn't take 2 mins to boot up.

I need a laptop for uni, needed for microsoft office and internet usage, would this be good enough? or could anyone recommend a different one? thanks

£90 less for an i3 here

My bad

Not to mention that this is i5 and has smaller screen, which would be more convenient to lug to and fro uni

Surely the Inspiron 15 5567 is a better buy?

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&brandid=7&sign=PXhcOSHtr1T4IOw%2fPR7UdfIsRAW8FJzFZEFoniHlGGgl1aJMs9c89tCVTJNDU XD y1JtU2b%2bbCq89%2bPAePNGTDe3CGt0qgu5eSbnbIkCAvR54UEt%2fPJWuwl5su7NKv%2fYWMPr%2biA0xqEvZULtpCp8n9ozlB0hR%2fYnOJMLbl7aroejzLaPOp%2btipcYKmNuq6iwi3nxPffGjicUjAyoaCAKjjn3IZjDJodf0peVdd1YchRoiGe8XtHq7jBjA%2bYkxtNhSSsF5YnLL4yccJIH2EjceuJA8gCB91%2bEKv2JJ3SaToyBVvWWFcni0VAfcdfdeChHn

use code inspiron25 and reduces the price to £247 inc VAT and delivery.

Thanks RiverDragon8 for the valuable info!

Hmmm apart from the 8 ram, it's not got ssd it's got short battery life, it's i3 vs i5 on the one on here, it's a heavy plastic laptop vs the light ultra book thing on this one.

I am playing devils advocate so if I am wrong please feel free to correct me as I want to buy a laptop and I trust you guys

Does anyone know of this has the Matt screen or the smooth glossy one

This is close.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pww51zXCA

I think they're wrong as I looked before I made my comment, here's a tear down:
http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/acer-travelmate-x349-m-disassembly-internal-photos-and-upgrade-options/

Unless there's a random slot lurking under the keyboard

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That, is some nice kit for the price.

Like an anti-virus program updating itself every day

Would this be any good for general browsing, YouTube, general home stuff? I'm swamped by specs and numbers all over the internet, need something decent asap.

yeah. just looked and disabled itunes, ccleaner but i think what takes most time, as another poster has said, is the Avast antivirus getting started. it takes time to set itself up and check things before it will allow the pc to start working.

It's because you have a lot of crude on your machine. You need to clean your machine like once a month. Hit Win key + R then type in prefetch then delete everything in that folder (don't worry windows won't allow you to delete anything important). Do the same with Win key + R and type in %temp% and delete everything you can.
Next right click on your C: drive and click Properties then Disk Clean-up then click on Clean up system files then check all the boxes and press OK.


Afterwards run Malwarebytes then after that done do a virus scan. Do the procedure once a month.

So now I need to decide between this or the Lenovo Yoga deal. What do people think?

This unless u want a touch screen...

i thought that ccleaner gets rid of crude from your machine? i use ccleaner once a day.

We´re learning some tech thanks to your lectures, thanks RiverDragon8!

I've not known that sort of content to slow down startup, but cleaning your machine regularly is certainly recommended is such instances :wink:

Mine turned up today, nice machine to be fair, hopefully it'll give me good service.

Nothing startling, it is decent enough but not the jump I was expecting from my 8 year old Compaq. Otherwise the build is lovely, other than the 'loose' trackpad, the chassis is lovely and is like a bigger version of my HTC M9. I didn't set the McAfee up and loaded Avast instead, all seems nice and quick so far.

think ill pass then seen a cheaper HP 255 G5 that does just the same for a basic laptop