Acer Aspire 5742Z

My old laptop had many problems (if you've read my Advent 7086 review you'll understand just how bad it was!) and so I decided I really needed a new laptop. I decided that I didn't really want to pay more than £250, but I needed a good specification. I have a habit of running a number of programs and ending up with many files so I needed a good processor, at least 2GB of RAM and a good sized hard drive. There were, annoyingly, a few different Advent laptops that met the spec, but I certainly wasn't about to chance buying another one of them. So my search began and that is when I found this ... more

My record with laptops is not that great as I tend to mess them up with silly problems and at Christmas last year I got a new laptop from the sales on Amazon. I had not really had a great connection with Acer products in the past but I took the chance on this laptop and was left very satisfied with the overall performance and the look it provided. Most if not all laptops now are going to provide you with some sort of Windows 7 software and this has the home edition already installed onto the system which is going to install when you first turn on the laptop. This to me is one of the first ... more

Product Title Acer Aspire 5742Z The Producer of the Product Acer The Target Audience Gamers, Business men, Students, Teachers/Lecturers and for people who want top range products. Price £350 Is the product for you? If you are after a product which is capable of high definition streaming to a TV, gaming, 500gb of hard drive space to store whatever you want on, 4gb of ram which means you can have so many programs or applications open at once without the notebook slowing down at all, a lovely light a compact design with a stylish finish then this is the product for you. It meets all the ... more

The Acer Aspire 5742 laptop has an extremely fast Intel Core i3-370M processor, with amazing graphics (Intel HD graphics with a 15.6" HD LED LCD) and soo much memory (a total of 320 GB HDD and 4GB DDR3). With an average battery life (6-cell Li-ion battery lasting about 3 hours, maybe longer) you can't go far without a charger, but the screen quality and running power make up for it. This laptop also comes with a built in disk drive (DVD-Super Multi DL drive) so running programs, burning and reading on/off of disks is no problem. Being a physics student, I needed the power and reliability that ... more