Acer to dump 3 million laptops onto European market

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Re: Acer to dump 3 million laptops onto European market

Post by Animavore » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:16 pm

This could be right up my alley.
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Re: Acer to dump 3 million laptops onto European market

Post by Svartalf » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:33 pm

Feck wrote:Screen size - 15.6 in - 1366 x 768
Processor - AMD Athlon II - 2100 MHz
RAM - 3072 Mb
Hard Drive - 250 GB
Operating System - Windows 7 Home Premium
Optical Drive - DVD Super Multi DL


£279 inc vat first one I found on their site
sweets stuff, except the HD is kinda cramped, and you'd have to pay me, handsomely so, to use something that doesn't have a real mouse and a full size keyboard.
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Re: Acer to dump 3 million laptops onto European market

Post by mistermack » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:36 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Feck wrote:Screen size - 15.6 in - 1366 x 768
Processor - AMD Athlon II - 2100 MHz
RAM - 3072 Mb
Hard Drive - 250 GB
Operating System - Windows 7 Home Premium
Optical Drive - DVD Super Multi DL


£279 inc vat first one I found on their site
sweets stuff, except the HD is kinda cramped, and you'd have to pay me, handsomely so, to use something that doesn't have a real mouse and a full size keyboard.
50 gig is plenty, if you use USB hard drives like I do.
And I also prefer a USB keyboard and mouse while using my laptop, so neither would influence me. ( actually, my 15 inch fujitsu siemans does have a full size keyboard, I just prefer a wireless usb one ).
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Post by Svartalf » Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:57 pm

I must admit I never had the budget for a collection of USB hard drives, nor ever got motive to want to have a computer on the go.
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Post by laklak » Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:52 pm

Wish they'd dump some on the U.S. market. I've got two old Acer Travelmate 804s, use them every day. Both about 5 years old and working just fine.
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Post by Feck » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:18 pm

Svartalf wrote:I must admit I never had the budget for a collection of USB hard drives, nor ever got motive to want to have a computer on the go.
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Post by mistermack » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:58 pm

Svartalf wrote:I must admit I never had the budget for a collection of USB hard drives, nor ever got motive to want to have a computer on the go.
I use the laptop mainly as a video recorder. Got a little usb tv card that records perfect video straight to hard disk.
It's actually cheaper than buying blank dvds.
I can get a 2,000 gig HD for sixty quid. That's the equivalent of 425 rewritable dvds, which would probably set you back £200 or more.
And it's easier to find what you want on hard disk.

With my alzheimers, I can enjoy watching a program a week after I last watched it, so I can't go wrong.
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Re: Acer to dump 3 million laptops onto European market

Post by Ironclad » Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:16 pm

I have spent the whole day playing with my new Acer, it's amazing!!

Top tip of the day, go to Staples and look for the Aspire 5553, I got one of the last three. Price, £329. Sounds a lot but bare in mind this used to retail upwards of £700. Also they offered a weighty £60 trade-in on a working old lappy, mine just about worked, so the final price was £270!
Chuffed chuffed chuffed.
The spec is outrageous for the money: Phenom 2 X4 (intel i5 equivalent), extra graphics chip, HDMI, 4xusb, Hyper-somethingsomething blah blah blah
Grab a bargain mofos
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Post by mistermack » Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:57 pm

Ironclad wrote:I have spent the whole day playing with my new Acer, it's amazing!!

Top tip of the day, go to Staples and look for the Aspire 5553, I got one of the last three. Price, £329. Sounds a lot but bare in mind this used to retail upwards of £700. Also they offered a weighty £60 trade-in on a working old lappy, mine just about worked, so the final price was £270!
Chuffed chuffed chuffed.
The spec is outrageous for the money: Phenom 2 X4 (intel i5 equivalent), extra graphics chip, HDMI, 4xusb, Hyper-somethingsomething blah blah blah
Grab a bargain mofos
Sounds very good. The phenom 2 x4 and the i5 have a huge spread of models, but even if it was the lowest spec, that's a potent bundle.
More use to a gamer than an average user though, I probably wouldn't notice any difference at all, with what I use mine for.
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