Ideal for everyday home use (Acer Aspire 5920G)

Member Name: littleocelot

Product:	Acer Aspire 5920G
Date:	19/05/09 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: good size screen and sound quality for watching films

Disadvantages: slow to start up

I spent a long time researching before finally settling on a laptop, and the Acer Aspire 5920 was the one i decided on. Best in its class for price, speed, memory, screen size and quality, and general all-round shiny-ness!

Supplied with windows vista, i was slightly dubious as I'd heard bad things about the operating system. However I've found it very good to work with, though having installed various programmes and anti-virus the computer is now very slow to start-up.

We do have occassional problems with the wireless - it does not always find and connect to the broadband, but pressing the wireless button a few times to disable and enable it again usually rectifies this.

Beware if you change the power settings - the battery was running down one day so i switched to power-saver setting, this switched off the wireless, amongst other power-saving things. For some reason I assumed that it would re-set to normal power setting when re-started, but it didn't. Even when switched on with the power connected it asked me every time at start up if i was sure i wanted to disable wireless. I had to change the power setting back to balanced with the power supply not connected to get it back to normal.

all in all though, a very good machine.

Summary: very good machine

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