Text 49705, 72 rader
Skriven 2008-10-06 08:56:14 av Jean Parrot (1:167/133.0)
  Kommentar till text 49688 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: $398 ACER report!
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    Hello  August, nice chatting with you. !  

 AA> I didn't get the laptop on Wednesday as originally planned. 
 AA> I only received it on Saturday.  But now I am pretty much 
 AA> ready to report!

        Nice report, August. It shows your background.

 AA> I'm generally impressed with the hardware features and capabilities.

 AA> I couldn't find anything wrong with the mouse that was 
 AA> originally reported.  I guess the user didn't wait long 
 AA> enough for Vista to settle down.

 AA> It *was* fairly busy trying to fetch McAfee updates and 
 AA> Windows updates.  There doesn't seem to be a way to disable 
 AA> McAfee from doing its updates.   This was extremely 
 AA> annoying when I was already on a dialup (over my shared 
 AA> network at home).  I couldn't really test browser/internet 
 AA> performance.

        I would be too, it would be enough for me to let it just sit
    and allow it to finish its act then resume work. A right click on
    the taskbar icon, gives you a choice of commands for McAfee, IIRC.

 AA> The mouse pad features a middle "joy stick" (rather more like a sunken
 AA> button  that swivels) that allows up-down left-right scolling on 
 AA> websites.  The mousepad also features an active right-edge 
 AA> that allows up-down scrolling the same as on a Thinkpad's 
 AA> pad.  In addition, the Acer features an active bottom edge 
 AA> for scrolling sideways.

        How does it compare to the IBM Trackpoint ?

 AA> On the sides:
 AA> 3 USB 2.0 ports
 AA> 1 S-video/TV Out
 AA> 1 ExpressCard slot
 AA> 1 VGA out
 AA> 1 Ethernet and 1 modem ports.

        Quite nice ! ExpressCard ?  Yeah !

 AA> The battery only ran for 90 minutes.

        That figure is derived normally, after unpluging the grid when
   the system is running, not that much HD access then required. That
   HD and any CD-DVD use are killers.

 AA> A gentle drop would probably be catastrophic for this unit.

        Are you going to test this too ?  ;-)))

 AA> But.. for $448 CDN ($398 on sale), I wouldn't hesitate to recommend
 AA> the unit  for a 1st time buyer who wants a full-featured inexpensive 
 AA> 15" laptop.  I would however, recommend trashing the 
 AA> annoying McAfee.  I would also recommend turning off many 
 AA> of the special display effects that Vista HB enables.

        They went fast enough at W-M, the word got around and users
   jumped on them. Your opinion seems to confirm this. Thanks for your
   time August.
     
       
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