Acer Aspire 3
Cheap thrills
LAPTOP | £279 from Argos www.snipca.com/54827
If you’re looking for a budget Windows laptop that offers an attractive design and a decent keyboard, then the Acer Aspire 3 could be your best bet. It’s worth buying even at its recommend price of £449, but the discounted £279 we found at Argos is outstanding value. We don’t know how long it’ll stay this cheap though.
It’s fine for light duties, such as word processing and working on spreadsheets
Our test unit was fitted with an AMD Ryzen 3 7320U processor, and came with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. That’s about as low-spec as you’d want to go in a Windows laptop, but it’s just about sufficient, as long as you’re happy doing everyday office tasks and web browsing, rather than gaming and video editing.