Ei System 3103 Reviews

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Average Ratings for Ei System 3103

  • Screen Quality3.8 stars
  • Battery Life2 stars
  • Ease of Use3.8 stars
  • Value for Money3.5 stars
  • Overall rating2.4 stars

7 Reviews For Ei System 3103

  • shpongled Rank: Corporal 1st Nov 2009

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Okay, the Ei System 3103. I do not actually own this laptop thankfully. That pleasure is my sisters, but i've had extensive experience (every time I see her) of trying to eek out a little more performance from this god foresaken machine. Before she bought it I had never heard of Ei System, and i've been building pc's for more years than I care to remember.

    The problem is, as has been stated by other reviewers, that it comes with only 512mb of ram installed, and running Vista. Saying that this is 'not quite enough for vista' is the understatement of the century. Running is the wrong word for what it does with Vista, it is PAINFULLY slow, vitually unusable. Starting up takes ages, and due to the low amount of ram the hard drive just thrashes away for ages, in which time you literally cannot do anything with it, just walk away and make a cup of tea... Even after startup the hard drive gets used way too much, again slowing everything down.

    It may be cheap, but it's pretty ugly if we're being honest, battery life is poor, it's heavy, and why oh why do these manufacturers insist on releasing machines that are not capable of running the operating system installed on it? Do they not test them? It's unfair as the very people who buy them will be pretty clueless regarding pc hardware, and are taken in by the stickers with a long list of meaningless specifications printed on them.

    So to conclude, learn the difference between MEMORY, and STORAGE, that will keep you out of trouble for a start, and stay away from cheap laptops running Vista, it's a false economy, especially with bricks such as the Ei 3103.

  • Guest 30th Oct 2009

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    stupid laptop! Its so messed up, everything bout it screems mess, well not everything...but its a stupid laptop

  • Guest 25th Jul 2009

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    when i brought my e-system ei3103 it did what i needed it to,ran quick enough etc etc,but it has only got 512mb ram,i did a scan and found you can install an extra 2gb of ram that transforms the machine,it will not take any more than 2gb of ram due to chip set.

  • Guest 16th May 2009

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    I have this Ei System 3103 laptop, its my first one, battery life sucks, the fan is really loud it frequently breaks and needs rebooting a lot.

  • highroyds Rank: Sergeant 22nd Mar 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    The Ei System 3103 is a great laptop which if you upgrade it, it works out to be a very cheap laptop for a fairly fast pc. The max ram you can upgrade it to I can find is 2GB. Very good laptop for the price. Only bad point is the speed, but this can be upgraded. But the fan is a little noisey, but please keep in mind you do have to keep a check of the cleaning of the laptop.

  • johnmacoske 1st Aug 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    Well I purchased this laptop from the Curry's website about 6 months ago now, and it is possibly the worst laptop on their site (apart from the other clearance laptops). So far the charger has broken for no apparent reason and the mouse has stopped working altogether. Okay, the display is brilliant for a laptop from this price range, but apart from that I do not recommend the Ei System 3103.
    I mean how is Windows Vista expected to run on 512mb ram? It's nearly impossible! It's one of those lapto ...

  • wiv678 Rank: Corporal 9th Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Picked up from local Cash converters for £150. Not bad considering £350 new 6 months ago. Everything still works as it should and is still pretty tight, although paint starting to wear where left hand rested.

    Computer came with Intel Celeron M 440 1.86ghz cpu but upgraded (very easily I might add) to a Pentium Dual core at 1.73mhz for £13 off ebay. The 512MB RAM is barely enough for Windows XP but is pretty useless for Vista. Upgraded to 1.5GB RAM for £9 (again, ebay ...