Acer TravelMate 5720G-302G16 - Core 2 Duo T7300 - 15.4" TFT

Advantages: its got good features
Disadvantages: alot of design flaws

travel mates are a type of laptop designed and made under the name of the computing brand acer. They are, for all of you who do not know, specifically designed for the working people, people who need something portable, or to use for their business. Now the design of this laptop is by no means stylish, in fact it’s the complete opposite. Its all in one colour, which I really dislike about laptops, it looks bulky and it just looks too dull ...
...by rounding off the squared corners and having a bit of colour change in their instead of the whole thing being black and boring. This isn't the fastest laptop, but its probably the average speed most people need for doing work on. It features a Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 / 1.8 Ghz processor which runs the 1gb of installed ram pretty fast. Another great thing is that this 1gb of ram can be upgraded to 4gb which would make the whole laptop run so much ... Read review

Advantages: portable
Disadvantages: could have more memory

...is another one from the acer travelmate range . Acer as a laptop company are beginig to grow, and they are now just as well know as a lot of others, but then I first saw then in shops, my first impression, and the impression of others I asked was they seemed a bit of a cheap brand, just like netto is compared to Sainsbury's. however acer have somehow seemed to change peoples minds and even managed to change my mind somehow. If you want something ...
...would go then. This acer has a massive 120 gb hard drive, this is just a bit more than what you would expect to be given in a quite a simple build like this is, so this is great for those of you who need the extra storage space. The screen on this travelmate is ultra sharp, as most are nowadays, and the new technology of these screens are just making them better and better. Because this is a travelmate, and is made for business people, it comes ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of features for the price
Disadvantages: Bulky, and a short battery life

...popular. The quality keeps rising. Acer has shown this with its latest TravelMate laptop. I needed it for general work, which seemed ideal. > What's it got? < The 5720G model has a dark grey exterior and easy to access control. At the heart is an Intel 2GHz T7300 Core 2 Duo processor (very fast for a laptop), though I feel this is simply to make Windows Vista work on it at an acceptable performance (it comes installed with Vista Home Premium). ...
...DDR2 RAM, this should be enough to run Vista smoothly for some time to come, even if you like to run all of your applications at the same time! Hard disk space is generous too. Its nominal 160GB capacity is enough to leave more than 125GB free for your own applications and files after Vista has taken its claim, and has a 10GB restore partition. As for expansion ports, there are four USB ports, one mini-FireWire socket, an RJ-45 port for the Gigabit ... Read review

Advantages: Great Graphics card, Good for both work and play, Nice design
Disadvantages: No DX10 support

This laptop is good for both work and play, I have looked into this laptop extensively because I was considering buying it and am still doing so. The laptop has a good processor (core 2 duo) and a great graphics card. The graphics card has hypermemory and can support up to 1GB of graphics memory. It comes packed with the latest hardware to give it top speed and performance for its price range. It is more than capable of playing most of the new games ...
...Half Life 2. as well as been a great gaming machine it can also be used as an equally great work machine, it is capable of handling large data transfer through both network and USB connection (USB 2.0) and also be used for graphics, word processing, publishing and database. It also includes the latest windows operating system “Windows Vista” with full Aero support for the ultimate vista experience. And with the built in webcam you can have video ... Read review

Advantages: Well-rounded laptop with very good functionality, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not future-proof, but what is?!

When looking for a relatively cheap but well-designed laptop, acer's travelmate series were a particular interest. Suitably powerful for multimedia applications, and generally well-equipped, with an integrated webcam, microphone and a separate graphics card. This does call on the system memory, however, and typically running windows vista will result in the system using almost half its RAM just idling... However, having purchased a similar travelmate, ...
...transported, the battery life in 'high performance' mode is short and the other power modes are less useful. I have experienced issues from new with the battery connection, and the seller - Kikatek, were very unhelpful. As well as not having a phone line at all - communication must take place by email - they were very unwilling to accept that the model had any fault at all... The laptop is a solid buy, just not from Kikatek! ... Read review