Is this laptop any good and about the right price?

[UKSBD]

Went to Tesco this morning where one of these was on offer,
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-9533.aspx

I bought it on the spur of the moment and now have it at home unopened
I haven't read any reviews, shopped around or compared it with anything.

Is it a reasonable laptop and about the right price?

I'll rarely use it, only really for working on outside in the summer or for
taking out with me when wanting to give people demos.
Is it about right for me?

[Subbynet]

Hi,

It's not a bad laptop, the spec is pretty good but the actual model is maybe a couple of years old. It will do everything you ask of it, word processing, spreadsheets etc plus it has a decent amount of disk space available.

I'm not sure if you got it at the best price but it's certainly a competitive price.

[dynamic08]

Just bought a laptop for same money. blue tooth enabled and 4 gig of ram.

[UKSBD]

Thanks, I thought it was probably an older end of stock model, but that
doesn't bother me. I'm poised with the scissor ready to open it now.

[Subbynet]

Just bought a laptop for same money. blue tooth enabled and 4 gig of ram.

Hi,

Where did you buy yours from?

[dynamic08]

I bought mine from ebuyer

[Cornish Steve]

Have you seen the Acer Aspire One? I'm really impressed with them. OK, so the screen is small and you can only play DVDs by purchasing an external drive, but they are powerful and neat little machines - and Acer has installed Windows XP and not Vista. You can get them here for under $350, which is currently about £180.

[scrivs]

By an Apple Macbook pro. Not cheep but good

[movietub]

I opened the Tesco's link ready to pour scorn on your choice but to be honest I can't.

For everything a person can realistically want to use a laptop for professionally pretty much any laptop upto 4 years old will cope. The fact yours has dedicated graphics is a big plus, also 2gb ram. Both are a sure sign that 1-2 years ago that model was a premium laptop. The processor speed is a little low but unless you spend a lot of laptop time playing games or rendering 3D animations it will run any program available you care to throw at it.

So what else could you want fo sub £400?

Tesco do seem to pull some proper bargains these days. Dell are regarded as the cheapest by most but only if new technology and the best price point with them is more like £700 in my experience.