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I am thinking of buying laptop Acer Aspire at $600. Is this model worth it for long-term professional use?
Any sharing of experiences or references to effectiveness, reliability, and other performance standards of Acer laptops, generally, would be equally appreciated. I am poised to choose between Compad and Acer, the latter seemingly offering a better mix of price and expected performance.
Model Major Specs and Details for the Acer Aspire:
Acer Aspire 5050-3242 14.1″ WXGA LCD Laptop w/ 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36. Operating System: Windows Vista Premium Ready, Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005; RAM 1028 MB, upgradable to 4GB; Hardspace 100 GB.
Software: Acer Empowering Technology (Acer ePower, ePresentation, eDataSecurity, eLock, eRecovery7, eSettings, ePerformance Management), Acer GridVista 1, Acer Arcade 4, Acer Launch Manager, Norton AntiVirus, Adobe Reader, CyberLink, PowerDVD, CyberLink PowerProducer
Short term, this would be fine.
But for long-term, I would recommend a duo processer. It can be a AMD turionX2, Athlon X2, Centrino Duo or the new Intel Core 2 Duo. This would last you for much longer.
Otherwise, you are one the right track. 1024 mb is the lowest I would recommend. For me 100gb harddrive is low, but you can always get an external hard drive.
Just to run the Vista, it requires 512 mb, but I recommend 1024 because it will eat up everything. Also, for Vista, you need to set aside a whopping 40gb of harddrive space.
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