ACER Laptops at Tesco's - URGENT Advice Please

woo

comaping it to a sony vaio which is sat next to the acer then it doesn't seem any flimsier. the screen hinge might be a bit smaller but that looks about it. don't intend throwing it about thtough so not too worried.

nej

I'm enjoying my 2414, I've ordered an extra 512MB for it (£39, or £25 for an extra 256) but really I'm not finding it a problem with just the standard 256 for surfing/spreadsheets etc.

k750man

I also bought the 2414 and I'm very happy with it. A bit larger than my previous 14" laptop screen and a bit strange at first, but now very pleased with it and the old laptop is rubbish compared to this.
Very pleased with it so far

waster_2

Worth noting the AS5601AWIHI has a 3 year warranty.

BONJOEY

i have the acer travelmate 3022wtmi and its brill, even has bluetooth, and a built i digital camera,
exellent laptop with a shiny white finish
would recommend!

point3

May I also add that I'm very impressed with this laptop.

Just added in a Pentium M 735a CPU (pin modded to run at 2.26GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache), added in a Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR module (that blue LED on the front panel comes on now :cool:), swapped out the old hard drive for a brand new 100GB Seagate hdd, factory restored XP from the recovery partition and swapped in 2 x 1GB SODIMMs recovered from recent netbook upgrades. It's a fantastic little surfmobile for a £45 spend on the revamp!! Bonus is that the battery has been very little used and still holds 1 hour charge at normal use (full screen brightness, wi-fi on, DVD playing, etc.)

Pimp your laptop and do your bit to recycle rather than buy new!

JasX

point3 wrote: »

May I also add that I'm very impressed with this laptop.

Just added in a Pentium M 735a CPU (pin modded to run at 2.26GHz, 533MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache), added in a Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR module (that blue LED on the front panel comes on now :cool:), swapped out the old hard drive for a brand new 100GB Seagate hdd, factory restored XP from the recovery partition and swapped in 2 x 1GB SODIMMs recovered from recent netbook upgrades. It's a fantastic little surfmobile for a £45 spend on the revamp!! Bonus is that the battery has been very little used and still holds 1 hour charge at normal use (full screen brightness, wi-fi on, DVD playing, etc.)

Pimp your laptop and do your bit to recycle rather than buy new!

Why the f*ck are you bumping posts from 2006, those laptops are ancient.

I don't think anyone is remotely interested in trawling thru 16 posts about buying tesco laptops that are 5 years old, start a new thread if you have something completly different to talk about.

point3

^^ If you had tried reading, then you would have understood that my reply was about the very laptop in this thread. With a little refresh, it's better than a netbook for home use. The single core CPU runs faster than some budget laptops on sale today. The only gripe is that the graphics adapter/chipset will not run Windows Aero glass effects - it's not that the hardware is incapable of supporting it, it's just that Intel has refused to develop drivers for it. It runs Windows 7 quite nicely, just without the fancy Aero glass effects. With XP, the same OS as chosen for netbook use, it does just fine and dandy.

JasX

point3 wrote: »

^^ If you had tried reading, then you would have understood that my reply was about the very laptop in this thread. With a little refresh, it's better than a netbook for home use. The single core CPU runs faster than some budget laptops on sale today. The only gripe is that the graphics adapter/chipset will not run Windows Aero glass effects - it's not that the hardware is incapable of supporting it, it's just that Intel has refused to develop drivers for it. It runs Windows 7 quite nicely, just without the fancy Aero glass effects. With XP, the same OS as chosen for netbook use, it does just fine and dandy.

I did read, I didn't see any use whatsoever in reading 16 irrelevant posts to get to yours, if you have something to say completly unreleated to a particular thread (upgrading laptops vs URGENT advice on buying them) common forum manners would have you start a NEW thread, not bump an unrelated one 4 years old

please refrain from bumping threads 4 years old until you've worked out how a forum works and why not to do so