Advantages: looks great, does everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...I had this laptop for a while and it was the perfect machine i could ask for whilst it was mine. Before you ask, NO, i did not throw it away! i gave it to my sister and brought another desktop pc for myself. The Design Acer always seem to make nice looking machines in my opinion and this is no exception.The Travelmate 5520G-5A1G12 is a stylish laptop in full black casing apart from the mouse scrolling interface. I love the shiny finish and the toolbar of crystal blue quick launch buttons below the screen. It comes with a superb 15.4 inch widescreen TFT screen that is large enough for your working requirements and provides fantastic images in its 1280 by 800 resolution. It weighs 2.9 kg which is not very much, justifying its designation as a 'travelmate' laptop for on the move people. The Processor It's an Athlon 64 X2 TK... Read review

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Advantages: portable
Disadvantages: could have more memory

...This laptop 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 sturdy, with a solid specification and in a mid price range of around £500, yet you could get one a lot cheaper now on eBay. Then this laptop could be for you. Its Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 processor runs at 2GHz which is pretty good, and its has 1 gb of ram too. This makes it a lot faster than a lot of other laptops with only 1 gb of ram though because its processor is so quick... Read review

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Advantages: dream machine-perfect specs
Disadvantages: slightly mad touchpad, some may not like looks

...INTRO I purchased the Acer Aspire 5520G laptop from Tesco Direct for the cost of £499, about 3 months ago. I purchased the laptop as my third laptop after two very unsuccessful Gateway Laptops earlier in 2007. These two laptops were both around £100 cheaper and as it was nearly a year ago neither of them was as high a spec as this one, which is currently around the highest spec laptop I have seen under £700, even though it cost much less than that! The first thing that I should mention is that my laptop is a slightly different version and although it is an Acer Aspire 5520, it is the Acer Aspire 5520G version which has some slightly different features such as a slightly faster processor and a bigger hard drive than the standard 5520. OPERATING SYSTEM The Acer Aspire 5520G runs Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium as an operating... Read review

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Advantages: Large screen good quality
Disadvantages: heavy not hi-spec

...This is the second Travelmate i have owned (the first being the similar Travelmate 8000) and it is the best i have used so far. Below is a list of the things i like and don't like about the product: Pros: Large Screen - good for watching films and also doing technical work (ie drawings and graphs) Hi-spec enough to be quick Card reader is really useful - we seem to have about very different memory card these days!!!! Looks good - not really a technical comment but i like it. Useful acer components - such as the acer grid system and power control options Wireless seems to be really good at picking up signal Cons Heavy Not the highest spec (you get what you pay for - and better than similar laptops of the same spec!) Large... Read review

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Advantages: Widescreen - built in wifi connectivity - Ease of use
Disadvantages: Relatively short battery life.

...I have used the Acer Travelmate 7510 version, for about a year now. Prefering the wider 17" screen, which this Acer has. The unit is powered by the AMD Turion 64 processor, another personal preference towards Athlon rather than Intel. 2 gig of RAM and an 80 gig hard drive, is more than sufficient for the personal home or office user. Wireless internet connection has been very stable and runs at 8mbps on average, which is great for music or film downloads. Windows Vista home premium is pre-installed and you do not receive a back up or restore cdr. The operating system is partitioned on the hard drive, so, in theory, you can always restore it to original factory settings - having tried this, due to a virus, I found I could not carry out this function, despite Acer telling me otherwise. The problem was easily resolved... Read review

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Advantages: Thin Light Cheap
Disadvantages: Heats up underwrist rest low powered graphics

...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... Read review

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Advantages: The features it comes with for such great alue for money
Disadvantages: no choice of colour nd possibly weight for some people

...I've had my Acer 5320 Travelmate for 3days now. This is my first laptop and to be perfectly honest, it has everything that I need and more. I purchased this along with a T-Mobile offer which was a FREE laptop if you took out a mobile internet dongle with 3 GB allowance for £30 per month for two years. I only look at the advert and thought what the heck, get it! Next day it arrives, opened it all up and my god I couldn't believe what it had! Firstly I didn't expect this computer to have an infrared port, Bluetooth, wireless, integrated camera, microphone and a memory card reader all built it!!!! I was a little kid at Christmas. Now personally myself, I know you can get better looking laptops, better designs and probably a lot more crammed into a computer, but for the offer that I got and for what I got, I am more than happy... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent Price, Good Design
Disadvantages: A little slow

...This is a review for the Acer Travelmate 2414WLMi. Which is very similar to the product above (1.6Ghz, 40GB HDD, 256MB RAM, WiFi, Dual Layer DVD RW etc.. 15" Screen). We managed to buy this product for £299 in comet after having difficulty from Tesco. -- Looks -- The laptop seems to be slimmer than others but this makes it a little wider and deeper. This has made the keyboard a little further from the front. -- Ports, Inputs, Outputs -- The laptop has 4 USB 2.0 ports 3 on the left side and 1 on the back. The power socket is also located on the back. It has a headphone and mic socket in the front where the Wifi and Bluetooth (yes it seems to have bluetooth - but not yet tested!) lights and buttons are located (the light also acts as a button) . Also on the left is an output for an external monitor. -- Hidden Features... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, good graphic, thin
Disadvantages: low quality sound&screen, mal placement of ports

...watching movies on her laptop instead of mine, although the travelmate has a 15.4 inch widescreen) The thing that really makes me question the logic of Acer manufacturing this unit is the placement of the ports. There are two USB 2.0 ports on the right side, and one on the front. This is not a good idea since the adapter simply has to be somewhere where it keeps being in the way for me while working. The worst placement though is that of the audioconnections on the front. Unless you have small walkman headphones the wire keeps being in the way; and this has actually led to me wasting a couple of 40£ computer-headphones whereas the connector finally has been bent. I would still consider buying this laptop since it (and newer versions) will give you the best performance for the money; so if you need the speed whilst working consider paying... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight, robust, quick
Disadvantages: Battery life could be better, hard to get hold of

...Acer Travelmate 290LCi I am using this laptop currently, right now I am even typing on it I have been using this laptop for around 6 months after it was bought for my by my boyfriend who bough it off his dad for just £50 it originally started life in a school as one of their many laptops and when they updated them they were just dis-guarded. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it when I bought it and it was all wiped clean and ready to use by the time I got it. It came with Windows XP Professional already installed which is the standard operating system for this brand of laptop. Since owning this laptop it has been brilliant I had not had a laptop before this and found it great for lying in bed till late on a night on the internet, it is only very light weighing around just 2.8kg so not very heavy at all. It has a 15" screen... Read review

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