This was quiet popular last year and it's been reduced by $100, here are the specs extracted from Amazon.
7th Generation Intel Core i5-7300HQ Processor (Up to 3.5 GHz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM
15.6" Full HD (1920 x 1080) widescreen IPS display
8GB DDR4 Memory & 256GB SSD
Up to 8.5-hours of battery life
CamelCamelCamel.
Another example of an Amazon product description being incorrect.
Eh?
What am I missing here, that seems correct?
Original post title was copied & pasted from Amazon, which currently still says "up to 2.5GHz"
If you check post revision you can see that error.
No import tax?
Nope as it's under $1000 AU.
That's great! Gonna consider this with the Dell Inspiron 7567.
They have been my two choices of laptops atm too. I believe the acer has issues with heating up. Thinking of picking up refurbed dell 7567 from their outlet store for $919 local stock and 1 year warranty.
@shopaaddict: scroll to the bottom. Those ones are as new condition. There are refurb ones down bottom.
It's actually $932 AUD on current Mastercard rates for those with Fee Free international purchases - every few dollars helps ;)
I do not know. Why?
Get out
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This or Scotty's Acer deal with MX150 GPU?
depends what you want to use it for. If you want to play games? this one.
the 1050ti is by several orders faster than an mx150
This one is significantly more powerful for the same money in a better chassis. Even if you didn't plan on playing games, you would be getting a much better deal and it would have a much better resale value in the future.
I thought maybe the Aspire would be smaller and lighter, but nope.
http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/acer-nitro-5-vs-acer-aspir…
Better chassis sounds good. Would this gaming-geared machine (Nitro) series be considerably thicker than the other Acer?
Also GTX 1050Ti is better, sure, but what about battery consumption.
The laptop I want is out of my current budget, so something that is cheap and a lot of bang for buck would be the temporary solution for this year.
Also 7th gen with GTX 1050Ti vs 8th gen with MX150, what's your take? Nowadays I'm much less about gaming and more into office tasks.
Sorry the comparison I linked to before was the previous Aspire model which has a different chassis in addition to newer internals.
The Nitro is slightly thicker and actually 500grams heavier (~2.5kg vs ~2kg). Neither are MacBook thin, but neither are thick laptops either.
The Aspire with a newer and more efficient 15w i7 8550U should get significantly more battery life. It's a 15w CPU though, so it will have a hard time competing against a 45w CPU from the previous generation during sustained CPU demanding workloads.
The 1050ti is leagues better than the MX150. Neither chips will be used if you are just doing office tasks, they will be powered down using Nvidia Optimus and the iGPU in the CPUs take over.
If you don't plan on gaming, then why get a 15.6" laptop with a dedicated GPU anyway?
Here is come comparison for just the GPU in case you want to know what difference in gaming performance between the GPU
https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-GTX-1050-Ti-Notebook-v…
This 7th gen i5 is an HQ - so it's quad core, 8th gen i5s are also quad but this has higher clock speeds
MX150 is roughly equivelent to a 1030, so not really good for any gaming.
8th gen with mx150 for sure will be better on battery life - how much better though - maybe 10-15% but that's just a guess
For gaming you want it thicker anyway. Having a slim gaming laptop means the cpu and gpu throttle under the heat. Or melt and die super fast.
Everyone has some bullshit advertising speil about their laptop cooling system. But none of them actually work that well without being a giant vent system that makes it bulkier. Otherwise nvidea would be over clocking their gpus with that shit already attached and claiming better performance.
There's a reason the real gaming laptops from metabox, Dell, Alienware and Asus are bulky with giant fans on the back. They all sell cheap shitty thin models too though, just not their top ones. This one has big fans on the back. Which means it won't throttle or die as bad. So do the gaming inspiron dell ones.
@c0balt: Thank you for your insight. I am not specifically after a 15.6" laptop with a dedicated GPU? I do game but not as often as I would have liked nowadays. 15.6" with a numpad is the real preference here, the other factors are battery life and price. The laptop I want is really the newly-released Thinkpad T580 which when specced up is 2.5k - as said above, it won't have any discount anytime soon so right now I'm just looking for something reasonably cheap but offers lots of bang for buck :)
Any other models you can recommend? There's the new 10% off $75 eBay code and I'm thinking of the HP ENVY x360 (IPS FHD touch-screen, i7 8th gen 16GB 256GB ~$1,450 so 10% would bring it down ~$1,300) - what do you think of it, and of the HP brand in general (vs Acer)?
This for gaming
the cops arent going to haul you away if you do your homework on it…
Well you aren't going to use it to f*** spiders.
I could. Get a vr headset and just destroy spiders
Just so youse know; Nvidia is now sneaking out a slower variant of the MX150: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-has-been-sneaking-in-sl…
Thanks for sharing. I've also picked this up from other threads recently.
This would be equivalent of the popular Dell Inspiron Gaming 7000 laptop
Any deals for this particular series?
gtx 1060 @ $400 more during dell ebay 20%
How's the voltage and warranty for this, since it's from Amazon US?
Nitro 5 power supply input: 100-240V 50-60Hz
Acer US International Support: Customers outside the United States are responsible for paying all freight and brokerage charges incurred in shipping, importing/exporting and receiving replacement products and parts and for arranging and paying for the shipment of any defective part(s) back to Acer. All international customers are responsible for all customs duties, VAT, GST and other associated taxes and charges.
However Amazon themselves are actually pretty good with claiming warranties from overseas. At the worst you may have to pay to send it there and they will cover return shipping.
Great deal!
This is really cheap for the hardware inside + 15" display
This or a Dell Refurb store.
Inspiron 15 (7567) 7000 Gaming Laptop,
7th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300HQ Quad Core (6MB Cache, up to 3.5 GHz)
8GB DDR4 at 2400MHz (1x8GB)
256GB Solid State Drive
802.11ac + Bluetooth 4.2, Dual Band 2.4&5 GHz, 1x1
15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display
NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5
130 W A/C Adapter
74 WHr, 6-Cell Battery (Integrated)
Backlit Keyboard ENG
Red
1 Year Warranty
$ 1,029
Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDapV6EE2_w
tl;dr Thermals on this laptop aren't great
that is a fantastic deal
one on the way for the missus,
She'll finally be rockin' The Sims 4 in its full HD 60fps glory
mine is still to be posted, let's see if anyone gets a DOA!
Fingers crossed, i'm still a bit apprehensive of the warranty process going pear shaped
Mine just got posted, 5 days after ordering jeeeeez amazon
Lots of reviews saying they're getting GTX 1050s inside not Ti's, can anyone confirm?
Which reviews? Latest Amazon reviews confirm it's a GTx1050ti
The 1 star ones, i always check. Recent reviews sounds good though!
Looks like there was a batch shipped by a 3rd party that accidentally had 1050s in them, but those shipped from Amazon all look ok.
Hoping it comes with the sata cables and mount for 2.5in HDD as well
Ordered one. Thanks!
RESPONSE FROM ACER AUSTRALIA ASKING ABOUT WARRANTY:
Hello,
Good day.Thank you for your e-mail.
Please send us the SNID/serial no. and a scanned copy of the proof of purchase. If the invoice has Australian or New Zealand address then we will honor the warranty.
If you need phone assistance, you may contact us at 1300 365 100 option 2 for Technical Support for hardware check or perhaps repair arrangement.
If you still have questions please let us know.
Yeah this is a known, worst case scenario is that you have to ship it back to Amazon for repair.
This price has dropped further to 700 USD if anyone's interested.
it was always $699 usd but with delivery it was $728
My bad thought I saw free shipping, turned out it was for another advertised laptop.
this or the lenovo just posted for $100 more?
Up to 3.5GHz* :)