Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi - Turion 64 mobile technology MK-36 2 GHz - 14.1" TFT

Advantages: PRICE,FEATURES AND PERFORMANCE
Disadvantages: BATTERY LIFE AND WEIGHT

ACER aspire laptop - Introduction The acer aspire series 5050 laptops are budget laptops packed full of features and running microsoft vista operating system. Being basic entry level products they will not offer the fastest processors or the biggest displays and may not be the lightest of laptops but they will offer plenty of features and specifications to future proof the product and deliver excellent performance at an affordable price.I will ...
...list the benefits of these of these specs based on my personal experience of usingf this product and give a mark out of ten for each section to help you form an overall opinion of the product. Specifications operating system-windows vista home premium processor-amd turion 64 x2 2ghz processor featuring amd powernow technology (512kb l2 cache) graphics-ati radeon xpress 1100 chipset memory-1gb ddr2 533/667 mhz memory(upgradeable to 4gb) display-14.1" ... Read review

Advantages: Fine for Vista, Lightweight, Superb Screen, Easy to use,
Disadvantages: Battery Life is only really average, Casing can get scratched easily :(

...My sister has an Acer 3682WXMi, and I really didn't think much of it, but I am mighty impressed with this one! It's a tad smaller and lighter and easier to carry around with me. It's got 1Gb RAM, an 80Gb Hard-drive, DVD/RW, wi-fi, 3 x 2.0 USB ports and a 5-in-1-card-reader. It came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed, all you had to do is input your details and it pretty much does the rest for you. You also get Norton for a 90 Day Subscription, ...
...you to register it with Acer and Norton if you want. There were a few issues I encountered, but I think this is more Vista than the actual Laptop. Firstly, Acer's eData Security application clashed with Windows Live Messenger (As a student I find it essential as a distraction), and the reccommended solution was to download a patch from the Acer website - this was unavailable, but I've since found out many Vista users have issues with the latest ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, Good Spec.
Disadvantages: Speakers, Pre-loaded Software

...licence, and lots of useless Acer software that I uninstalled without even finding out what it was. It seems slightly useless having Windows MCE as there is no TV Tuner, and I can't get the S-Video Out to work. The Acer Aspire 50501AWXMi is a very good laptop for the money, and I would recommend it for surfing the internet, listening to music and watching videos. It plays games, but not aswell as a desktop for the same price would. ... Read review

Advantages: Nice Looking, Fast, Full Of Features, Great For Gaming.
Disadvantages: Vista, Kills Any Machine... Its Bloatware!!

I just purchased this machine 2 weeks ago and I must say I have been extremely impressed with it so far. Its performance is quick, the machine is stylish and it has great usability. Overall, its a great piece of kit... I bought this laptop for £299 from Ebuyer in the June sale they have at the moment as i was looking a cheap good quality laptop to do my web design with. The machine itself came with Windows Vista which is appauling, total 'bloat ...
...the laptop to the point it was nearly killing it and seemed to be ticking away with things in the background even when the machine itself was doing nothing. So the first thing I did was install my Windows XP disc and wow did this make a difference. The machine was a beast, fast, excellent response rate and it made a huge improvement to what Vista did to it! The laptop came with 512MB ram, and it was fine with XP but i decided to add 1GB to it and ... Read review

Advantages: Low Cost
Disadvantages: Cheap look and feel

...got lines down it. Phoned ACER up who informed me it was down to it being dropped or something being put on top of it, which is not what happend the lines just appeared as someone was working on them and got worse. They said i could send it back and they would charge me around £200 to repair it the thing only cost me £250. If you want cheap and cheerful then this is the one. But when it fails beware of the warranty its is not worth anything and the ... Read review