shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 After a new laptop and not wanting to spend a fortune, found this Acer aspire 5732Z on Ebuyer and seems a good buy for the money especially with 4GB RAM and a 500GB Hard Drive! http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179792 Will only be using it for browsing the web, downloading and storing music and storing information for work! Any advice would be great Also after some decents laptop speakers and found these two sets, will probally go for the more expensive of the two unless someone has a better reccomendation http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119155 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/95425 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Liz has this model. Its fine and we have had no problems with it. I have the 5535 and its been back to acer twice for major faults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 It seems a bargain for £400 only £30 more for the same model, this one http://www.ebuyer.com/product/199170 but with a extra 1GB of ram and 250GB of Hard Drive space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Looks like a good buy to me. We have acers at home and have had no issue. The only possible thing I would look at is if the operating system needs to be windows 7 64bit. Some progams may not like the 64 bit operating system, but Ive not had that much experience and some of these incompatibilities may have been ironed out, and Windows 7 may have some pretty good "compatibility mode" setup so it can run as 32 bit when needed. I also think if you get a license for 64 bit, you can always install 32 bit at a later date if you want to. Im sure others will have more experience with the 64 bit OS and can advise if Im just talking crap above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 You know my computing skills are limited chris whats all this 64, 32 bit buisness the operating system on the ones im looking at says its got a Windows 7 home premium edition 64 bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Looks like a good buy to me. We have acers at home and have had no issue. The only possible thing I would look at is if the operating system needs to be windows 7 64bit. Some progams may not like the 64 bit operating system, but Ive not had that much experience and some of these incompatibilities may have been ironed out, and Windows 7 may have some pretty good "compatibility mode" setup so it can run as 32 bit when needed. I also think if you get a license for 64 bit, you can always install 32 bit at a later date if you want to. Im sure others will have more experience with the 64 bit OS and can advise if Im just talking crap above I run 64bit Win 7 and have not had any issues with software, as long as your not using really old software i.e Office 2000 etc. Some new laptops only come with a recovery partition no original OS disk... make sure you ask for one My Win7 Ultimate came with 32 and 64 bit editions, so the others should too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 I think with 4GB of RAMM ill need to run a 64bit system wont i ?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 If you have 4Gb RAM you can run both, 32Bit will run on a maximum of 4Gb, 64Bit you can go 32gb+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Tbh I wouldn't consider running a 32bit OS anymore these days as all the niggles of when they first came out have pretty much been eradicated with Vista and Win7. Certainly I've had no troubles over the last few years Also Acer laptops are ace (excuse the pun!), I've had about 10 off them for work and personal use in the last few years and I'll happily go there again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 But looking at the spec for that laptop, the motherboard will only support 4Gb Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanageDave Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I have the acer and no problems at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Thats right doogyrev but im never going to need more than 4GB RAM for what i need so thats not a problem so for the £30 more for 1GB RAM and 250 HD seems a baragain over the other one. The more expensive of the two seems to be running a slightly less powerfull processor but dont think thats much to worry about is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjones6699 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 This is probably a good read for you even tho its aimed at students. http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/r ... s-Guide/p1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Thats right doogyrev but im never going to need more than 4GB RAM for what i need so thats not a problem so for the £30 more for 1GB RAM and 250 HD seems a baragain over the other one. The more expensive of the two seems to be running a slightly less powerfull processor but dont think thats much to worry about is it? All the Acers I have seen have been spot on, The crystal LCD screens look very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Think im set on the laptop then!!! What about speakers now guys http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119155 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/95425 Two decent ones i found Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Unless you need to carry the speakers around I would go for mains ones not USB ones, you will get better ones for the money. If you have to carry them around with the laptop then either really, the slim cheaper ones look nicer to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesterfield Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 With regard to speakers, I wouldn't bother with any depending on what you are wanting them for. What are you wanting the speakers for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 just when playing music off the laptop for example if the boys are round for a poker game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoogyRev Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 just when playing music off the laptop for example if the boys are round for a poker game If that's the case then spend an extra £10 and get something like this...... http://www.dabs.com/products/creative-i ... -4RC9.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 ^^ Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 5.1 might be overkill for just a bit of poker background music, I would go for a 2.1 set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Which ones are they dave?! found these at £70 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/170161 They seem to be middle of the road you posted up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Which ones are they dave?! found these at £70 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/170161 They seem to be middle of the road you posted up PC World are doing then for £39.99 reduced from £59.99 http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/logitech-z323-2-1-pc-speakers-black-03065122-pdt.html?srcid=198&xtor=SEC-96-GOO&mctag=gg_goog_7904&gclid=CLnO8Zbq1KMCFc792AodYWLWvA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian.lewkowicz Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 As for the OS, the question on whether you'll get 32 bit and 64 bit with your laptop. The answer will generally be No. If you buy OEM software you only get the one you buy. Laptops will generally come with OEM Operating Systems and as such will only be supplied with the one you buy. But as someone else said I wouldn't worry I'm running a 64 bit Windows 7 and as of yet I haven't had to try to find out how good the compatibility mode is as I haven't come across anything I need that doesn't run fine and I'm still using Office 2003 so it's not the latest software As for speakers USB powered means your battery (if using the laptop on battery) will drain quicker. Also generally Mains powered ones will be better. I would go for a nice cheap(ish) 2.1 speaker system if it's for music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shire350Z Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 cheers for everyones help!! Went to PC world and played about with everything they had and for music quality and price the logitech Z323 2.1's (mains powered) you suggested dave were by far the best so bought them just gotta get the laptop now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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