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Skywalker786

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Comments please on this deal. Is it a good buy?

Yay or nay?

Lenovo Celeron laptop bundle from Makro – R4,999

Makro is offering a Lenovo Celeron laptop bundle for R4,999. The bundle includes a Lenovo Celeron laptop with 4GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive and WLAN/LAN/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity. It also offers Microsoft Office 365, a Sandisk 32GB flash drive, a Microsoft mouse and headset, a Redbull data SIM with 200MB per month for 12 months and a 2 year full carry-in extended warranty.



If no, any recommendations in that price range. Will be used for basic office and email.
 
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sounds a bit pricey to be honest

Celerons are great at under 4k but this one is nudging towards 5k and the extras don't really move in the direction of making up the price
 
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Generally the more freebies thrown in the shttier the deal. People are really bad at analytically evaluating the value of freebies and sellers exploit that. Like so:

>>4GB RAM - OH lots of RAMs of unknown speed...but there are lots of them so it must be good
>>a 500GB hard drive...500 sounds like a big number. Thats approximately 250x more than the 2TB one.
>>WLAN/LAN/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity...I have heard some of these terms...they involve internety stuff...must be good
>>It also offers Microsoft Office 365....Office...thats the thing with Excel and stuff...score
>>Sandisk 32GB flash drive...I can totally use one of those to cart around my 6 documents, 5 cat pictures and recipe collection
>>a Microsoft mouse and headset...obviously one needs a mouse (everyone knows that) and headset sounds professional and I can totally skype with it or something
>>a Redbull data SIM with 200MB per month for 12 months...more internety stuff...even better
>>2 year full carry-in extended warranty....ah safety...exactly what I need since deep down I know I don't have a clue wtf I'm doing.

And that ladies is how you sell a crap laptop to the unsuspecting public (not that I've ever done so).
 
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HavocXphere said:
Generally the more freebies thrown in the shttier the deal. People are really bad at analytically evaluating the value of freebies and sellers exploit that. Like so:

>>4GB RAM - OH lots of RAMs of unknown speed...but there are lots of them so it must be good
>>a 500GB hard drive...500 sounds like a big number. Thats approximately 250x more than the 2TB one.
>>WLAN/LAN/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity...I have heard some of these terms...they involve internety stuff...must be good
>>It also offers Microsoft Office 365....Office...thats the thing with Excel and stuff...score
>>Sandisk 32GB flash drive...I can totally use one of those to cart around my 6 documents, 5 cat pictures and recipe collection
>>a Microsoft mouse and headset...obviously one needs a mouse (everyone knows that) and headset sounds professional and I can totally skype with it or something
>>a Redbull data SIM with 200MB per month for 12 months...more internety stuff...even better
>>2 year full carry-in extended warranty....ah safety...exactly what I need since deep down I know I don't have a clue wtf I'm doing.

And that ladies is how you sell a crap laptop to the unsuspecting public (not that I've ever done so).
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Check at Makro and Mitabyte and your buddy should realise that a Core i3 deal would be only like R500 more.
 
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nightjar said:
Good for 1 month only???
Buying a full Microsoft Office 365 will cost R2500 approx
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It's like all those other bundled software they advertise as included it's there but only for a short trial period and then you have to pull out the credit card.
 
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Are current Celerons still so bad? I haven't been paying much attention to them over the last few years but aren't they all dual core and based on modern tech which should be more than adequate for documents, web browsing et cetera.

There was a time when Celerons were practically unusable (i.e 1.6Ghz Celeron 420). Especially when the paired them with Windows Vista and 512MB of RAM :sick:
 
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I am using a celeron (HP650) and its fine as a general purpose entry laptop - celeron, 2gig RAM, Win 8.1. I've put an SD card in for Readyboost which helps a bit. The RAM is a bigger problem for me than the processor - by miles.

However I think that your Atom based chipset is actually a better cut in many respects - look at your Windows 8 Atom based tablet / transformers with SSDs on them. If you are wanting something quite versatile and with on board storage space (so small SSD and so on out) which is a laptop rather than a tablet the entry celerons now aren't a problem at all but they very much are entry level and cheap. I am not convinced that the jump to an i3 really makes sense for an entry laptop because to really expand your options you need to go to having a decent chunk of RAM and an i5. This is why a MacBook Pro 13" is really what I want :)
 
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