Acer TravelMate 4150LMi

Well where to start, how about at the beginning. Back in the the heady days of Windows 95 a pentium 1 166mhz 1.5 gig HD I took the plunge and visited PC World and bought an acer desktop, being firmly rooted in the commodore camp i was reluctant to take the pc route, I took the Plunge 10 years on and now onto a sony vaio desktop (beautiful machine but thats another story). So now up to date I was made redundant after 15 years so as a treat thought I would love a laptop and took a trip to Comet, anything decent was very pricey but set my heart on the Acer, but my financial advisor, wife for ... more

Excellent specifications for the price, compared to brands such as dell and sony. The Dvd burner runs a lot slower than the given speed. The wireless connection is excellent. The laptop gets regualar use by me and my kids, who can be quite heavy handed with the keyboard. three of the keys have fallen out. Support at Acer couldn't be bothered to reply to my e-mails regarding replacement keyboard. Acers website is annoyingly slow at times, i did manage to find all the necessary drivers when i had to reinstall windows. Don't try to install or even run live linux cd's as it will not for some ... more

Before being recommended this laptop I hadn't really heard of Acer before. I'm glad that this was recommended to me though because I have had no problems with it at all. The only problem was a slight faulty headphone connection, but that was due to my own stupidness of standing on the cable connection. It has been really well built and has with standed all of the bumps and scrapes that come with carrying around a laptop. The only downside is getting used to the 2 hard drive system. I found myself storing all of my files on one of the hard discs and finding myself very confused when I ran out ... more

This laptop is very good value for money. As far as laptops go the specs are good i,e, memory, processor speed etc. I was not really aware of the Acer brand before I was going to buy this laptop, but any fears were dissolved once I had bought it. The value for money is excellent but the software installed on it was not very high spec (Mircosoft Works compared to Office). The screen is large and very good quality. There are a decent amount of connection options. Wireless internet and several USB ports. I would definately recommend this laptop especially as other people I know with other major ... more

This laptop has served me well for a long period of time. I managed to keep it for about 1 1/2 years before eerytthing started to go wrong. It just caught loads of viruses for no reason that i can see. It comes with a whole variety of useful things that could be termed as 'one hit wonders'. Things such as the Acer Emanager which was only really useful for the very beginning setting up accounts and power management all the sorts of things that you only use when first starting up your computer. To be fair to Acer this tops the same sort of equipment that microsoft gives and of course if needs be ... more