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I have just been given an Acer Travelmate 4000 to replace my aging AJP laptop. I am told it cost £700 with a 3 year warranty.
First Impressions were good its looks nice with a good standard of design. The screen is bright with a 1280x800 wide xga resolution it has good contrast both under the fluorescent lights at work and sat outside at the local coffee shop.
Software support wasn’t great, it came preinstalled with Windows XP home the only bundled applications were Acers management software, cd/dvd authoring software (for use with the DVD +- RW drive. Also bundled was a copy of Powerdvd for watching movies. There was no office software, which cause a little problem. I solved this by downloading a copy of open office.
The laptop is powered by a Intel Centrino. The processor is a 1.5ghz Celeron with inbuilt wireless and Intel’s power management which gives you a reasonable runtime on battery (I must admit I rarely use battery so I haven’t done extensive tests on life). The wireless performance is good Windows detected all points at work home and eclipse wireless (re branded bt openworld) at the local coffee house.
One disappointment was while a great desktop computer applications open fast and with 512MB memory and 60 GB disk its more than adequate for the average user. However my model shipped with the inclusion of Intel’s mobile 'extreme' graphics chip. The only extreme thing about it that is extremely poor; performance on 3D games or CAD apps is very poor. If you want to play games or run cad apps don’t buy this laptop.
Ports wise it has usb, firewire, svideo and dsub for video output. I tried outputting a film to my tv output was ok but as usual Intels terrible integrated graphics has a terrible driver which makes tv settings difficult.
Overall a really nice if Spartan laptop, if you want a cheap unit that looks nice and can handle office functions and Internet browsing with ease the Travemate is a good choice.
For more details on the spec see Acers website http://www.acer.co.uk/acereuro/page9.do?dau34.oid=5554&UserCtxParam=0&GroupCtxParam=0&dctx1=17&ctx1=UK&crc=2090514753
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(+) cool and quite robust trackpad, good display,64-bit windows 7 (-) few connectors,dell drivers only, not realy for gameing (most models), finger print prone!
Mar 18th, 2005
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