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General Notebook Question
I know this is somewhat vague, but I recently saw a Wal-Mart commercial for a $300 Acer laptop. Does this offer seem decent? Are Acer laptops a reliable brand? I'm just looking for something to blog with.
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Sleeps with the Fishes
You can't expect any of us to tell you if $300 is decent for a laptop without knowing the specifications. The price sounds excellent for a good laptop, but I don't know the specs, so I can't say for sure. I'm assuming though, that it's a very basic model and would be fine for web surfing and word processing. Assuming that's all you need it for, go for it.
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Mako Shark
Yea probably a old line sempron processor ...
To be honest the only laptop brands i spend my money on are toshiba or lenevo. Maybe another like sony for example if i heard good enough reviews ....
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Great White Shark
yeah... chances are they skim out on the processor (using either Sempron or Celeron processors) with 512 MB or less memory. If all you plan on doing with it is some word processing and Internet, it's fine.
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Richard M. Nixon '08
Performance isn't really that important to be honest. Just ensure that it has 512MB RAM (1GB if it's with Vista) and everything else doesn't matter. Also a gigabyte of notebook RAM is like $30-40 these days so even that shouldn't be a problem.
Here's what you should be looking at:
- How big & heavy is it?
- How long does the battery run? (with wifi on and decent screen brightness)
- How well is it constructed?
Acer makes laptops that are terrible in all 3 categories and laptops that are great in all 3 categories.
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Great White Shark
IMHO battery charge life and weight are very important. I've been lugging 7 pounds around for 4 or 5 years now and it will only go about 45min on a charge.
Next one I get will be light and have the ability to hold 2 batteries.
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Mako Shark
Thats one thing i do love about dell laptops, how on some models, at the front the dvd drive slides out so you can insert a second battery if needs be ....
Compaq A910em: T2330 dual core 1.6Ghz, X3100 384MB GPU, 160GB sata HDD, 2GB RAM
Gaming rig: Asus Striker II, Coolermaster GX 750w, E4600 @ 2.4Ghz, 2.5GB RAM, Zerotherm FZ 120, 9500GT 1GB
Server: Mac mini running W23k Server - 1.8Ghz dual-core, 1GB RAM, 1x80GB, 2x500GB externals + LTO1 tape backup
An important petition, regarding your human rights:
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...r-both-genders
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 Originally Posted by PCJ
...Acer makes laptops that are terrible in all 3 categories and laptops that are great in all 3 categories.
Acer names and model numbers please, I'm in the market. Yes... I mean the great ones.
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Mako Shark
You get what you pay for.
If a laptop costs $300 retail, then expect it to act, behave, and perform like a $300 laptop.
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