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SUPER VALUE LAPTOP, WHICH CAN BE UPGRADED IF NEEDED

Oct 30, 2008

Rating: 9 out of 10 (Spectacular)
Pros: EASILY UPGRADABLE, DRIVER SUPPORT, BRIGHT SCREEN
Cons: VIDEO CARD 7000M , ITS OK BUT WOULD PREFER IF IT WAS 9100M
Opinion:
I bought this laptop at walmart for 500$ cad. I did not research any laptops before buying this one as it was an inpulse buy, i did not want to get hp as my roommate bought one and hp did not have drivers for windows xp. i bought the laptop for its size, low weight and nvidia chipset and video card. i was disappointed acer usa and acer canada does not have drivers for xp only vista. thankx microsoft.
however acer china has all the drivers for xp thankfuly. i downgraded to xp immediatelly. The change in os made the laptop run much faster. great value for the money it, plays all my games, bf2, call duty 4 etc. i was also happy to find that i can upgrade this laptop by swapping the cpu for a faster one.
manual states the computer can only support max 2.3 ghz x2 turion cpu which is amd socket s1 638pin . i bought amd tl68 cpu x2 2.4ghz on ebay for 220 Usd, it worked great no prob. i also upgraded hd 160gb to 64gb solid state ocz core , which has improved my sustained data transfer from 43mb/s and 12 ms to 120 mb/s at .03 ms. for another 200 $usd
i have also upgraded 2gb ram to 4gb ram for 60$usd for the total cost of 600$cad this laptop rules,... it runs really fast now IT BOOTS UP IN ABOUT 15 SEC. for 1100|$ i spend in total on this value laptop it tops 1100 $ units found in staples by way of specs and speed.
In addition my battery life has increased from measly 1hrs and 20 min to 4 hrs even on full charge.

really happy with this laptop now.

even if you are not buying this laptop to upgrade its still good system for 500$