Acer Aspire 1301XV - Athlon XP 1500+ 1.3 GHz - 14.1" TFT

Advantages: Nice looking, compact
Disadvantages: Expensive, unreliable, poor customer service

...My daughter bought her Acer Laptop just over 2 ½ years ago, hoping that it would last her for the duration of her degree. At just under £800 it was not cheap! During the 2 years warranty the floppy drive stopped working and was a hassle to get it repaired and returned by Acer, due to them waiting for parts. Just outside of the guarantee it broke down again. I contacted Acer by email and these were not even acknowledged, despite sending several reminders being sent. I phoned their "escalation" department and left voice mail messages for someone to ring me back, but no one did. In desperation I even wrote to the UK Managing Director twice to try and get a response. I could not address him/her personally, because the switchboard at their head office refused to provide a name! Several weeks later they finally wrote to me and basically... Read review

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Advantages: Long lasting battery, fairly cheap
Disadvantages: Poor specs

...The Acer Aspire 1301XC. The question isn't how good this is the question needing to be asked is why it was made. This has a 1.3 processor which is ok but the thing about laptops is that they have good processors to make up for the lack of good graphics cards. Sure the battery lasts for ages but that isn't everything. You will never manage to play the newest games on this. They reccomend this to for home use but isn't the point of laptops being portable and besides the only good thing about this is it battery. My recommendation to people thinking of buying this is not too. Its simply not worth the price you can get something much better on a desktop. In my experience I would have said to get a Toshiba or an IBM they may not look great but at least there good value for money. The other thing is if they were going to make it for people... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Light and sleek
Disadvantages: None so far!

...Compared to my old 333Hz desktop, this machine goes like the wind! In my opinion it is a fast, reliable and ultimately portable computer with all the features you would expect from a normal desktop PC. Spec is as follows:- Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP processor 1400+, 14.1" XGA TFT display, 128MB SDRAM, 20GB HDD, 24x CD-ROM, wired LAN 10/100, 56Kbps modem, Ni-MH battery, Microsoft® Windows® XP Home The 1.4 GHZ processor makes it fast enough for any home or office applications and it is good at multitasking. Computer Buyer tested eight notebooks based on applications that a user would normally use on a desktop, such as Word, Excel and CorelDraw. All manufacturers were graded on features, ergonomics, portability and performance but the reviewer commented that "If you want a PC for surfing the net and doing some word processing and other... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful