Acer Extensa 5220-101G08Mi

I last reviewed a budget laptop at the tail end of 2000. It had cost me £1,000 and I didn't like it much. Now I'm typing this review on an exponentially faster laptop with more than 40 times the hard disk space, and it was a quarter of the price. Truly, we are living in the future. I still don't like it much. Extensa 5220 I bought this machine so I could work on novels and short stories without leaving my bed. I really am that lazy and I make no apology for it. To look at, it's a totally standard laptop, the screen folds down over the keyboard with a single catch at the front. There's one of those trackpad ...  Read the complete review

I purchased my laptop at Christmas via the Park catalogue, it arrived in November 2008. Since then I have used this for my work, entertainment and job seeking. It's a pretty basic laptop if you ask me, well I may be a tad bit off of hand here as this is indeed my first laptop, therefore I have no other experiences on how other laptops work- but I'm gunna give a review a try all the same which may be a bit tricky, so iff this isn't to your liking- I did warn you. Memory I feel that the storage is very poor, with only 80 GB which is divided into two sections, one of which is almost impossible to get to the other contains everything that keeps the laptop ...  Read the complete review

This laptop is the Acer Extensa 4220-101G08Mi. The extensa is a new model from acer and although they have been working on it for over a year now it wasn't until a few months ago that these laptops went on sale. I still don't think that it's a brand of acer laptops that most people will be familiar with yet however I think it will grow and they will get better and more and more people will buy them just like what happened with the travel mate and the aspires. Its basically a follow up from the Acer aspire however the aspires were made mainly to keep at home and for a laptop to use around the house. These new extensa models though are not only made or that but also ...  Read the complete review