Another laptop

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OK people imm looking at this laptop

Now the only thing i can see thats bad about this lappy is that HD is dead, but as im not after blu ray as ther could be a chance to upgrade later, plus its already dvd rw which will do me.

Can anyone else see any probs or issues that ive missed

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/pi/27-...17-HD-DVD-Win-Vista-Home-Premium-Product-Info

Ed

 

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Yup: it's an Acer.

 

Whats wrong with acer

I bought one last year and te only thing thats happened to it is i btoke the screen, so ignore the name of it and tell me truly what you think

Cheers

Ed

 

Looks ok to me. 17" notebooks are quite big though... wouldn't want to carry it far.
(Shame about the HD-DVD, BluRay would have sealed the deal!)

 

Okay for monitors... laptops, not so much.

Some companies are just better with certain things. HP: great for printers, horrible for cameras. Asus: great for motherboards, but I wouldn't buy their audio cards.

Hey, if you liked your last one, go for it.

 

Have to say this is a great specced laptop for the price!

The only thing I would possibly look at doing is upgrading the RAM to 4GB. I would buy that now, as for that price it will not be around for long.

 

I would normally upgrade but im sure 3 gig is as high as i can go as its a 32 bit os, if it was 64 and there was the technology and also the money wasnt a consideration then id do that.

Tell me if im wrong about the 32 bit 3 gig max thing

Ed

 

I've had a couple of Acer laptops and I've had no problems with them (better than the Samsung that broke in 8 months), my current laptop is an Acer aspire 5715z that I got last month from Tesco for £275

 

OSs can normally see about 3.5GB for 32 bit ones, apart from vista ultimate 32 bit, there's a way for you to get it to see all 4GB but I don't have that info on me at the moment. (its in a magazine on my desk at home)

 

ANother thought, as ive been browsing ive come across BD combo drive, so could i assume that its a Blu ray disc that i could record stuff onto, by using a blu ray disc????

Ed

 

Generally BD combo drives can playback high-definition movies on:-

• BD-ROM
• BD-R (recordable)
• BD-R DL (single-sided double-layer)
• BD-RE (rewritable)
• BD-RE DL discs
• DVD discs
• CD discs

As it's a combo it's more than likely it'll only play the above whilst being able to burn to normal CD/DVD discs too. You'll need to check the specifics for the type of drive you've 'come across' though

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