Acer Aspire 1355LM_256 - Athlon XP-M 2600+ 2 GHz - 15" TFT

Advantages: Reliable & Easy to Use
Disadvantages: Short battery life

...What can i say? This laptop has been great. It is easy to use with a large 15 inch monitor which is clear even on bright sunny days. The only gripe that i have with this laptop is that the battery life is much too short and a 2nd battery costs about £100. The speed of the computer is pretty good, however, if i do upgrade it in any way, i will be getting another memory stick to take me up to 512mb SDRAM. I find that when browsing the internet and using the touch mouse. my pages tend to go back and forth however, this has happened on every laptop that i have used with a touch mouse. Perhaps it's just my heavy handedness!... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap but powerful
Disadvantages: poor heat sink design

...This product is excellant value for money, considering it is so cheap. It is excellant if you use your computer mainly for office work and watching videos. If you want to play top end games then it isnt so good, as the graphics card isnt supported by nvidia anymore but can play games like Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2. Acer do offer driver support but only for the operating systems that comes on it (i.e. Windows XP and 64, NO VISTA SUPPORT). The 64bit part is abit of controversial as there may not be any real bonus to having it. A common problem i found is after a few months the laptop may start to ramdomly power off. In my case this is due to poor heat sink design, and envolves pulling the panels off from either side of the laptop where the screen hinges are, unscrewing the hotkey panel. The heat sink should be visable, unscrewing... Read review

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Advantages: Value for money
Disadvantages: Noisy fan

...I bought an Acer 1315LM last August as it was a very good price at just under £800. For that price, I was getting 256Mb of RAM, a 15" TFT LCD screen, a massive 40GB hard drive (which was large at the time for a laptop), and a DVD-RW drive. It came pre-installed with Windows XP, 3 months of Norton Anti-Virus, and Cyberlink PowerDVD. The last one was useful as the laptop also has TV out, so I now watch DVDs by linking up my laptop to my widescreen TV using an s-video and 3mm audio cables. This negated the need for a separate DVD player. Functionality, it is reasonably fast, wich means you don't have to wait an eternity for something to load up. The drawback to this laptop is the noise the fan makes. It is very loud!!!! The other drawbacks, which is probably minor for most people, was that it only had 2 USB ports (albeit USB 2... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful