Advantages: Cool with style, technology, user friendly with easy understanding
Disadvantages: Sensitive touch buttons, overweight,

...I purchased my Acer Aspire 5920G from Comet. So much for cutting prices. The laptop itself is cool, it's fairly fast, easy to use and really portable. The 15.4" inch screen is the perfect size. The laptop comes with the useful Acer Empowering software. Highly recommended laptop, the only problems I have had is with the sometimes buggy Vista. The keyboard isn't the best but I haven't had any problems with it. the touch sensitive media buttons on the right of the keyboard are too sensitive and i often end up touching them and opening the program by mistake. the Acer is fitted with superfast wireless with the inclusion of 802.11n. It also has a card reader and a camera. The laptop is great, lots of features, Acer have really pushed the boat out on this. A lot of people have been critical of the styling however I find it quite refreshing.... Read review

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Advantages: Dependable, cheap, exceed expectations!
Disadvantages: Not applicable.

... Ace laptops by Acer, I have got an acer aspire 5315 laptop with an intel celeron processor, 64MB graphics, 512MB RAM, 15.4'' screen, 80GB hdd, built in wireless and a dvd super multi re-writer drive. It is very well designed when it comes to style with its acer pebble design and it is very dependable. I am very pleased with my laptop and what makes this all way better in my opinion is the price that you can buy acer laptops at. My laptop for example only costs around £300 in the shops and still is good enough to withstand all the stuff i do on it ranging from browsing the web to programming software in visual basic or visual c++ and even has proved itself well capable of playing games well which many computer gamers would never expect of a computer with only 64mb graphics and a proccessor that is not dual or quad as you can now... Read review

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Advantages: Just like the make its Ace, good for first time laptop buyers
Disadvantages: for advanced users they will want just that much more

...Acer have come a long way and you can tell they have put so much effort in giving the comsumer great products. This is shown in their technology. The Acer Aspire 3661 wlmi is a great laptop for first time users and at a fantastic price is more than value for money. I brought this computer for the wife who as little PC experience and wow how quickly she has progressed using this laptop. I have taken full advantage of the built in WIFI so the Aspire is taken everywhere around the household. It runs at about 1.5ghz which sounds a little slow but dont let that fool you, built in PCI Express makes it run 4 times faster than traditonal PCI. The Acer Arcade (softwhere) multimedia suite is fun to use and very easy. it caters for all your needs like photo's and playing you dvds. So many more features but i will leave you all to experiance... Read review

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Advantages: Compact, wrist wrest
Disadvantages: Cheap feel

...I received an Acer keyboard for my work PC not to long ago. As with most keyboards where you can't choose you take what you get. The ACER KB-2971 is by far one of the most basic keyboards you could get. It's a standard UK keyboard layout with num pad. With an all black finish there is nothing much to report here. One thing I have noticed in the past is that on some cheap keyboards the letters on the keys start to wear off but to date there is no problem on this keyboard. Key action is not actually that bad. In fact it is really quite good. If you have to type for a long time and if you type as bad as I do then your fingers start to get sore after a while. No such problems here, key action is light but responsive. One additional feature with the keyboard is the addition of a separate wrist rest. This attaches to the bas... Read review

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Advantages: Inbuilt wireless LAN
Disadvantages: Inherent design problems, lack of tech support

...I bought my Acer because I'm an F1 fan, and they sponsor Ferrari. I guess I was conned by the marketing man! For the first 6 or 7 months my Acer worked perfectly, it was fast and had no problems whatsoever. Then things started to go wrong. 1) The screen is weak, cracks began to appear at the bottom on both sides. 2) The CD drive pops out every few minutes for no reason. I have contacted Acer who acknowledged it was an inherent problem with the Aspire, yet there is no fix. 3) I have had to reset it twice, due to unexplained slowing up in the processor. 4) The standby sensor on the lid has stopped working altogether. There were also some longstanding annoyances: Although there is a 'bluetooth' button on the front, this is not included in the package. Also, the tech support from Acer can only be described as awful. Every reply just... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Easy to use, Does every neccisary
Disadvantages: Heavy

...I bought this laptop 2 years ago and I think that if your looking for a standerd laptop for college or work or even personal use it is a very good buy. it is good value for money and can do alot of the things your much more costly computer can do. It can handle wireless and broadband. It can take a CD-Rom and wright Cds, It also has an intel centrino Duo processor which means that no matter how many progams you are running it should not slow down. Wether that is completly true i am not sure but it is certainly quicker than other laptops I have used. It is resonably heavy but not so heavy that it is uncomfertable. If i was to recomend a cheaper computer to anybody I would definatly consider looking at the Acer Aspire 1350. Thanks... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, good quality for playing games
Disadvantages: slow, freezes easily, short term battery life

...The Acer was perfect when i first found it as i wanted just a cheap Laptop so that i could keep in contact with my fiancee when i moved away via email. The first problem i found with it is that after charging it fully, the battery will only last for an hour maximum, I rang the support number for this and was however informed that this is the case with most Laptops, Im not quite sure if this is true or not. Playing games on this laptop however is one of the better features as they play extremely well and are up to speed. However another problem i have had is that the screen tends to freeze quite often when doing the smallest of things such as writing with the word package. The look of the laptop is satisfactory and it is not to big like some of the laptops i have seen. Another problem i have had with this is that the buttons tend to fall... Read review

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Advantages: No inbuilt bluetooth adapter
Disadvantages: Acer Extensa 5210, DDR2 512MB, 80GB HHD, 1.6ghz Celeron processor, WLAN, DVD writer:

...Acer Extensa 5210, DDR2 512MB, 80GB HHD, 1.6ghz Celeron processor, WLAN, DVD writer: My laptop came with a Windows Vista basic installation. (For those who would like to instal Windows XP your warrant may fly through the window. I needed to get XP SATA drivers on floppy to install XP...and also changed the bios version (refer to instruction on acer website). Anyone purchasing it will notice that it has a blue tooth adapter sliding switch on the front face, only that I did not realise at first glance that there was actually no bluetooth adapter inside. One has to buy an external bluetooth adapter to use with this laptop...but the laptop has bluetooth capability...only no internal BT adapter. Overall perforemance: good... 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: Cheap and does everything I need it to.
Disadvantages: Stopped doing what I needed it to.

...I bought this Acer laptop from Comet in Perth. It was exactly what I was looking for at the time, a cheap laptop that I could use between my home and my girlfriend's in Dundee. I have had one or two problems with it, but Acer have a good support service that has sorted these out fairly quickly. The first problem was the battery charger stopped recharging the battery. According to Acer this is a common problem and they sent a new box out and that sorted the problem out once it arrived a few days later and I started using the new charger. The second problem also involved the battery charging and initially I was all set to cause havoc and get my money back. However, Acer asked if I would send the laptop back and arranged to get it collected from my house. I did have to pack the laptop up and make sure it wouldn't be damaged intransit... Read review

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