Acer AcerPower 8400

Advantages: Reliable, Expandable
Disadvantages: Long wait for Technician

...The Acer power M5 is a very reliable computer, offers expandability and also has the acer empowering software which allows you to create restore cd's and optimize your pc. After a few months however the hard drive did fail but i had no problems at all with the customer services and in two days a technician arrived, fitted a new larger hard drive and got me up and running again. Overall i have had a good experience with this computer and i find it is able to cope with day to day needs of a student and also runs most games effectively, it is very good value for money in my opinion and is a very quiet machine. I also found that the video card, although integrated is very good especially after a driver update.... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap enough
Disadvantages: Unreliable

...My first ever PC that I bought myself was made by Acer. At the time, they were operating as the cheap brand pc's on sale at PC World. They seemed to be vastly undercutting the competition although their specifications were not as high. After months of faultless operation, It started to go wrong. This is when your problems all start with Acer. Looks like times have not changed as I will tell you about their POWER range of modern PC's. Background on the series. Acer have been around in some shape or form since 1976. They have been producing Desktop PC for about 10 years. They offer a variety of ranges of PC to the consumer and the Power range is supposed to be cutting edge performance at a discounted rate. Well let me tell you. Its not. The Power series my mum bought is the SX. It comes with a Pentium 3 866 Mhz Processors which... Read review

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Advantages: Practical functionality,Powerful performance
Disadvantages: non-found

...Acer provide some of the best reliable value in their range of computer system, there is no need to go to the high street and pay over £700.00 for this excellent compter system when we have it here for less,a lot less {worth shopping around as the price varies alot} Suitable for any home and small office environment Powerful performance The AcerPower M2 is the first commercial desktop in the AcerPower series designed around the AMD Athlon 2600XP processor. The AcerPower M2 offers simple expandability and is easily upgradeable. Thanks to its elegant asthetics it is fit for any professional environment, home or small office. I particularly liked the 8 usb ports easy accessibility its spec is exceptional at this price with a few of the more important ones listed below System memory 2 x DDR400 184 pin Socket Maximum 2.0 GB. 256MB... Read review

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