For a sub £500 laptop, this little Acer beauty will impress. I bought one of these recently after looking through all the usuals such as Dell, Compaq and Toshiba and for the money, this one beats the rest hands down. I ended up going to Currys as they had the best deal available - I would recommend getting the 4GB of RAM and then upgrading to Windows 7 64bit as the 32bit version bundles with most laptops only utilises 2GB of memory. The look and feel of this laptop is outstanding - I particularly like the dark blue finish and the smooth trackpad. It also has a numberpad which you won't find on most laptops. The features are standard, built in ...  Read the complete review

I am not a computor expert (although not totlly illeterate) so this review is not going to be a technical talk on this computor but from a very busy lady's perspective on how it runs etc. This is the first laptop I have bought, previously using desktops. When purchasing this item I was looking to find a reasonably priced laptop that would perform well for my needs. I planned on using it for basic internet use email, shopping, on-line banking etc. I also need it to work well on wi-fi as I am using it to maintain our golf clubs handicapping system which means taking it to the golf club, entering scores and then emailing various people and the EGU with the ...  Read the complete review

Acer decided to add an extra Aspire Gemstone Blue model laptop. I was lucky to get a hold of him as my friend purchased it, and I was using it for a while, he asked me to install some software and configure his Vista so the notebook going to work properly. The first touch was a surprise I expected it's going to weight more than 2.8 kg, it's a really light notebook, and thanks to its glossy sapphire-blue Gemstone cover and intricately textured palmrest it's a pleasure to touch it. I opened it and, I have thought nothing new inside, which is actually good because you don't need to get used to some new type of using it. The screen is 15.6", it's really ...  Read the complete review

Integrated ATI Radeon HD3200, what can I say?! Why pay £450 for an integrated graphics card? !!!! Better with HD4570 dedicated. And Acer isn't as good as Asus.