Acer Aspire 7720g 17" laptop. Good deal?

urbanlegend11

Been looking for a replacement laptop for a few weeks. This 17" caught my eye for what seems to me an extremely low price for what you get. Perhaps you guys can point out its flaws or if it genuinely is a great deal. Its £489.34 by the way from pcworld.

spec is:

New glossy Acer Aspire 7720G featuring a 17 Crystal Briteview widescreen and a Blu-ray combo drive to watch your movies with HD quality. This fantastic laptop comes with Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium

Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 Processor (2 GHz, 667 Mhz, 2MB Cache) Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium 3GB Memory 250GB Hard disk drive Blu-Ray & Super Multi DVD drive 17" CrystalBrite display nVidia GeForce 9300M GS graphics Wireless & Wired network-ready Gloss black exterior with white interior Full product information about Acer Aspire 7720G Blu-ray laptop Laptop for the Home and Office Hide product information about Acer Aspire 7720G Blu-ray laptop Laptop for the Home and Office

Full specification Benefit
Processor Type Intel Core 2 Duo T5750
Processor speed 2000 The higher the number of Megahertz (MHZ) the faster the processor should be
Memory Size 3 GB MB
Memory Type DDR II
Hard Drive Capacity 250 GB The bigger the capacity the more you can store
Optical Drives Blu-Ray Disc Drive
CD-ROM Speed 24 x Enabling access to CD ROM data. The higher the number the faster the speed
CD-RW Speed. 24 x Enabling you to access and store data on CD-RW disks. The higher the number the faster the speed
DVD-ROM Speed 8 x Enabling you access to data on DVD. The higher the number the faster the speed
Floppy Disk Drive NO Floppy disks are 3.5" square and store a small amount of data. CDs,DVDs and memory sticks are now usually used instead
Screen Size/Type 17" WXGA CrystalBrite
Graphics Card Type nVidia GeForce 9300M GS To enable images to be displayed on your monitor
Graphics Memory 256 MB The higher the memory the better quality images you are display
TV-out NO Allowing you to plug your laptop into a TV to watch DVDs
Wireless Enabled YES Allows you to connect to an existing wireless network such as in a office or a wireless hot spot
No. of USB Connections 4 The more connections the computer has the more equipment you can connect to your computer e.g. a modem, printer, scanner, digital camera, PDA
No. of Firewire Connections 1 High speed data transfer link for digital video and other media. Ideal for quickly downloading video images from a camcorder to PC
Infrared Port Included NO Allowing you to connect to other devices with infrared such as an infrared enabled mobile phone
Battery Type Li-ion
Battery life (up to) 2.50 hours
Weight 3.6 kg This is the weight of the appliance in KG
Height 43 mm
Width 404 mm
Depth 298 mm
Colour Gloss black exterior, white interior

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Jakg

Totally depends on what your using the laptop for tbh.

urbanlegend11

Well various things but i just wanted to know that the spec you get with this machine seems good value for the money spent as there are so many on the market.

urbanlegend11

Doea anybody know if this can be connected to a tv for use as a blueray player?