Acer Aspire 6930G

My old (really, really old) Dell Inspiron 1100 was on its last legs. While it was still capable of running my required applications without too much trouble, the battery struggled to last ten minutes once disconnected from the mains. As a replacement battery was nearly £100, I decided just to buy a new laptop. I searched some of the forums that I frequent and found that the best value-for-money tends to be spending between £400 and £500, so with £500 as my upper limit, I went on the hunt. The Acer 6930G was the best specced laptop I could find at under £500. I sought out opinions from other Acer owners and the response was stacked well in their ...  Read the complete review

I recently purchased The Sims 3 and was dismayed (but not at all suprised!) when my old Tobisha laptop was unable to run the game. So I was faced with the task of buying a gaming laptop on a budget of £500 to £600, which seemed an impossible task! I literally searched for days to try and find a suitable gaming laptop in my price range until I finally came across The Acer Aspire 6930G. I brought it from Comet for £599. It had extremley impressive specifactions, the very best I'd seen in it's price range and appeared to represent fantastic value for money. I was dubious that it would be too good to be true! Below are the listed specifications for ...  Read the complete review

My boyfriend got one of these in June, after he broke his Vaio - it was recommended by his brother, who manages a Comet, so we had high expectations. Since we use the laptop just to surf or perhaps watch the odd video, we thought the spec would be more than enough for our needs. Within a couple of weeks, it started to heat up whenever it was fully charged and plugged in. This got worse until it started to crash anytime you played music, or watched video. Even really basic games like Zoo Tycoon would freeze it for hours on end, or just crash. We were advised by the Acer customer services helpline to "make sure the laptop was not put on top of any solid ...  Read the complete review

Acer Aspire 6930G-583G provides great functionality, packs in a lot of features and offers excellent value for money. Although battery life isn't great, this is an impressive laptop, and comes highly recommended by us as a price-friendly multimedia platform. Acer Aspire 6930G-583G is aimed at those on a budget looking for an all-in-one multimedia package. It's packed with features, boasting a fairly powerful graphics card, a Blu-ray drive and a widescreen display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, meaning you can play films without the intrusive black bars commonly seen at the top and bottom of the screen. Although the bright 16-inch 1366 x 768-pixel ...  Read the complete review

First off, I would like to say that I have been using this laptop for a few months now, with absolutely pristine performance. It shipped with Vista Home Basic, but being the picky IT guy that I am, I immediately downgraded to XP Pro SP3, which, after installing all the drivers necessary, worked like a dream. However, after XP I decided to try out ubuntu, which also worked right out of the box. So far, vista, XP, and ubuntu had worked 100% on the machine, and I had not experienced a single system crash! Recently, with all the Windows 7 hype, I decided to take the plunge and install the Release Candidate RC version from Microsoft on my ...  Read the complete review