Acer Aspire 5720-6661 15.4" Laptop (1.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 Processor, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) | List Price: $1,049.99
Discount Price: $699.99
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Brand: Acer
Binding: Personal Computers
Features: - Stylish multimedia-focused laptop with 15.4-inch screen and HD DVD playback
- 1.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor; 160 GB hard drive; 2 GB RAM (max); dual-layer DVD burner
- Tri-mode Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g); Nvidia GeForce 8400M graphics with 768 MB of shared video memory
- Connectivity: four USB 2.0; 1 FireWire; 5-in-1 memory card reader; 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
- Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (with Media Center capabilities)
Check ACER's website to be sure if they support this--you'll need it! [Posted on 2008-04-22]
Within about three months of purchase, the disc drive on my ACER (similar model, no longer available, purchased at Sears in 9/2007) stopped working, the Vista software no longer prompted me for passwords and shut out the Administrator, and tried to format any device plugged in via USB cable )whether software was installed or not), and within 4 months started running VERY slowly (we're talking at the same speed as my old 128MB RAM Compaq). By the time the computer was 5 months old, it refused to acknowldeg that any backup had been made of the C drive and would not allow disc defragmentation in any mode.
It was also very frustrating having it surrpetitiously decide to change wireless networks; I was regularly dropped and reconnected to nonfunctioning networks.
When I tried contacting the company for help, all I got were canned replies. It probably didn't help that the serial number on the bottom of the computer is printed in such as way that it wears out quickly; since I couldn't provide them with that, ACER wouldn;t even sell me a reboot disc (yep, that's right: You get no safety nets or backup software with this brand!).
Bottom line: You really can't do much worse than ACER!
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