Thread: Acer Lap Top Died

Hi PC Guys,
My 10yr old Acer Lap Top died,it had a 15inch screen.I could go down to a 11inch screen,mire compact.
Are the cheap $275-$350 laptops any good.Id just use it for general use and forum.Im using my Samsung 9+ at the monment,but its not very forum friendly.
I live 90 minutes from a PC shop to only get filled with jargon from a young saleman.
What would be a good laptop at a resonable price and warranty for my use.
Thanks for your info and time replying back to me.
Regards Trout

Originally Posted by Trout

Hi PC Guys,
My 10yr old Acer Lap Top died,it had a 15inch screen.I could go down to a 11inch screen,mire compact.
Are the cheap $275-$350 laptops any good.Id just use it for general use and forum.Im using my Samsung 9+ at the monment,but its not very forum friendly.
I live 90 minutes from a PC shop to only get filled with jargon from a young saleman.
What would be a good laptop at a resonable price and warranty for my use.
Thanks for your info and time replying back to me.
Regards Trout

my ACER died last year - serious case of black screen - I got a second hand ex lease one from Janko here in New Plymouth for $600 - HP model about 3 years old with a warranty - really happy with it - new one was around $1200 - only bug was all settings had been returned to factory - was going flat quick but discovered battery settings needed changing - like switch itself of etc - now happy camper -modern fast laptop

You're lucky, I barely got a year out of my Acer and then a similar story from Dell. I went through a really bad run of PC laptops.

Had to replace HP laptop of 9years last week due to clusterfuck moment resulting in broken screen.
Got replacement from Noel Leeming for $1k,, 8GB 256 GB....SSD I5, 15 inch screen, 1YR Warranty Fast enough to do the biz without frustration.
On sale.

Too much watching porn. Burnt out the CPU.
Next time just limit yourself to an hour a day.

I bought the cheapest laptop (not chromebook) PBTech had a few years ago, still going okay or I wouldn't be typing this now. Used for the net and some spreadsheet stuff so didn't need serious horsepower.
It is a Lenovo, I think it was in the $300 odd range. 14 inch screen, 250GB SSD.

I using a 6 year old Asus at the moment our other Asus died at 7 years old, but they are not cheap as we tend to get the biggest 17" screen we can. At this time I would not change from this brand. Internally they all have much the same components.

All I will say is get one with a SSD drive the bigger the better, the speed difference is amazing compared to a standard spinning drive but as always backup and backup your backup. So many people say they have nothing to loose until they do loose it all.

I just bought an ex lease business grade laptop (HP Elitebook) for my son. It cost about $600 but is a fantastic machine. Business laptops are built more sturdy than consumer grade ones and offer better performance. I seriously recommend going down that route. Beware though - some can have the BIOS locked up, which doesn't affect the average person but could be a problem for some (advanced) users.

HI guys,thanks for yr input.
Il have a look around next time i go to town.Il go small n cheap,pc not for business.So Cigars idea is what il focas on.My wife has the flash pc for our business.I dare not use that.
Thanks for yr input guys