Advantages: extra features, price
Disadvantages: a bit basic

...This acer aspire carries acers so called gemstone design. This is a new design of laptop from acer and is being used in more and more of their laptops because of its popularity with customers. It does have split opinions however, some love it and some people really cant stand the look of it. I however think its great, its black and cream colour, with a lovely glossy lid looks cool and very neat and tidy. Also what I like about this Is its clearly a design that acer has come up with and kept, and it clearly represents their company. a lot of laptops from other manufacturers just look the same as others and you cant tell what brand they are, this however, much like the look of apples imacs you can tell they belong to which company. The laptop is of an average size, its 36.6 cm wide, 27.4 cm in length and is 4.3 cm in height. So its... Read review

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Advantages: Low price, fast perfomance, good battery life
Disadvantages: FAT32 disc formatting,

...The Acer Aspire 5612WLMi offers the advantages of a Intel Core Duo processor, the T2300, combined with 1GB of RAM and an ample 100GB hard disk, and of course a DVD-RW and Wireless networking. Coming in at a budget price. Packaging The box for the 5612 is of a simple design and the laptop is very well packaged within. It is securely fixed with polystyrene to hold the laptop in position and the manual, driver cds and power supply contained well. Setup Once removed from the box the first thing to do is to charge the laptop. When turned on for the first time an Acer walkthrough takes you through the setup and registration. An opportunity is provided to create a backup disc that will take the system back to its factory settings if problems are encountered later on. Performance The Intel Duo processor combined with 1GB of RAM... Read review

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Advantages: fast and affordable laptop, Its just fantastic
Disadvantages: a few bugs with vista

...The aspire 5633 combines three important elements: the latest 64 bits dual-core power, stunning multimedia and effortless connectivity in a stylishly compact entertainment system designed to provide unbeatable all-round value. With a 15.4" TFT screen, large hard disk drive and the simplicity of acer's empowering technology, this is a truly unique source of mobile entertainment. Now with 1.66GHz core 2 duo processor and 1GB of RAM you will never be short of speed, you're laughing as the laptopwill not need any swap-space with that amount. Also the graphics card you can play some awesome games and looking at the task manager the laptop is hardly working. It is all so great with movies, with its 15.4" widescreen display you can watch movies in all its glory. It also has a dual layer DVD rewriter multidrive so u can copy movies onto DVD... Read review

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Advantages: High hardware specifications.
Disadvantages: Microsoft Vista, capped graphics and audio output.

...* impressive that Old Trusty can't compete. It's Cute Puppy versus Aged Hound and it's a fight where there is no way the puppy's going to lose. So, I took the old mutt down to my local independent computer shop to check out the deals for refurbishment or upgrade with trade-in (as the ACER 1300DV was on the right side of the gigahertz processing barrier to get me at least £75 off - I was surprised, I got £150 off). Which is where the problems began... I saw the ACER ASPIRE 9303WSMi the second I walked into the shop. And it was lust at first sight: Irrational, tech-hungry, I'm-buying-that-one lust. 1.6ghtz dual-core, 1GB RAM, large 17" screen, DVD+R reading capacity, 160GB hard drive, 256MB GE Force graphics and a brand I trust. What could possibly go wrong? A typing error: The paperwork said 'VISTA-ready' instead of 'VISTA... Read review